LCOGT’s First 1-meter Telescope Ships to Site Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) shipped their first in-house designed and fabricated 1-meter telescope to McDonald Observatory today. Final assembly, balancing, and testing was completed over the last month and on March 26, the telescope was dismantled and packed for shipping. The truck loaded up and pulled out this morning. This marks a critical milestone for LCOGT, as seven years of development, design, assembly, and testing came to fruition with a production telescope.
FTN Site Specifics Discipline: ScienceFTN Site General Information Tags: observingsitesfaulkes telescope project
Why we call the Haleakala site OGG It is company policy to name each of our sites (internationally) after the closest airport, using the 3-digit airport code. Santa Barbara is SBA, which is quite understandable. Haleakala is labelled OGG after Kahului airport on Maui. The origin of this acronym is slightly mystifying, and the reason for it is as follows.
Trial Telops Discussion Telescope class: 2-meterDiscipline: Operations Issues on the Submit Wiki Page: Discipline categories too narrow, No "all" telescope class, no "All or multiple chiice for Site", there are more than telescopes at a site, the filters do not belong in instruments, instruments are more properly subsystems and there are lots of subsystems. Tags: TelOpsbugs. night operationssites
