Global Telescope Network

The global telescope network is continually expanding. We currently have 2 operational telescopes at 2 separate sites and will eventually have continuous coverage of the night sky from multiple locations. There will be 3 main classes of telescope, categorized by the size of the primary mirror: 2-meter, 1-meter and 0.4-meter.

Haleakala

The observatory site on Mt. Haleakala is 10,000 feet above sea level. Here the observing conditions are very good as the telescope is above a lot of the Earth's atmosphere. Currently Faulkes Telescope North (FTN) is the only fully operational LCOGT telescope at this site.

Siding Spring

Siding Spring is near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. It is the most important location for optical and infra-red astronomy on the Australian mainland, hosts eleven telescopes, and is home to our 2-meter class Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) and will be home to two 1-meter telescopes later in 2013.

Santa Barbara

The headquarters of LCOGT are located in Goleta, a city close to Santa Barbara, California.

The majority of LCOGT staff are located here. This is also where the 0.4-meter and 1-meter telescopes in the network are designed, assembled and tested. Most of the science team is based here and are affiliated with University of California, Santa Barbara.

Cerro Tololo

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is home to many NOAO telescopes. Las Cumbres Observatory deployed a full node of three 1-meter telescopes at Cerro Tololo during October 2012. 

Teide

Teide Observatory, on Tenerife, is home to several types of telescopes including solar, optical, and radio. Teide is a potential future site for LCOGT telescopes.

For more information about the site and the current telescopes, check out the Observatorio del Teide website.

  • Instruments

    Find out about the cameras, filters and CCDs we use.

  • Network Statistics

    Nightly statistics for dew points, seeing and more at each site.

  • Network time

    Find out about making observations with our expanding network.

  • TelOps

    Visualizing telescope and site status.

  • Weather

    The latest weather data from our telescope sites.

  • Webcams

    See what is happening at our network sites.

Network News

Observations