Following near-by asteroid's journey Observing with BOS one of our astronomy team, BJ Fulton, has compiled a video of the asteroid 2005 YU55 as when it was recently near the Earth on its travel around the Solar System. The video is not in real time and represents many hours of observations, compiled into less than 30 seconds.
Maui’s The Pfluke Times features LCOGT Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope’s (LCOGT) Faulkes Telescope North (FTN) was featured in The Pfluke Times of Kihei, Hawai’i in two articles in a recent Sunday edition. Stating that “It is a very cool telescope,” Anthony Pfluke, the 10-year-old editor and journalist for the paper, described the telescope, the LCOGT outreach program and director, and included in the piece stunning photographs taken by himself and other participants in a homeschool session provided through LCOGT and the University of Hawai’i’s Institute for Astronomy.