LCOGT at the 2008 Royal Society Exhibition, London

LCOGTLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network participated in this years prestigious Royal Society Exhibition with an exhibit titled: Is there anybody out there? Looking for new worlds. There were three general themes, each outlining the most popular methods used to detect planets around other stars: Doppler shifts (wobbles), microlensing (blips) and transits (winks). A factsheet about the exhibition is included here. During the exhibition, several thousand visitors enjoyed science exhibits over four days, at the Royal Society’s offices in central London.

Other participants on this exhibition were: The Open University; University of St Andrews; University of Hertfordshire; The Faulkes Telescope Project; The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics; Keele University; Queen’s University Belfast.