Weather

The Weather Visualization project provides an actively updating feed of the weather data collected from our sensors located at the telescope sites. Each site has its own sensors that are constantly relaying information on the current weather status to us here at LCOGT.

Santa Barbara Test Site

Status: Closed/Not ready

The headquarters of LCOGT are located in the city of Goleta, California. Most of the manufacturing for the 0.4-meter telescopes and the design for the 1-meter telescopes is done here. The telescopes are located in the back parking lot of the facilities.

Haleakala

Status: Open/ Ready to open

The observatory site on Mt. Haleakala (a dormant volcano) is 10,000 feet above sea level. Faulkes Telescope North is the only fully operational LCOGT telescope at this site. The observing conditions are very good as the telescope is above much of the atmosphere.

Siding Spring

Status: Open/ Ready to open

Located near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, Siding Spring hosts twelve telescopes including LCOGT's 2-meter Faulkes Telescope South. FTS is positioned at an elevation of nearly 1,116 meters (3,661 feet).

Sedgwick

Status: Open/ Ready to open

The Bryne Observatory is located at an elevation of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) in the Santa Ynez valley. Sedgwick Reserve is often referred to by the acronym SQA, which stands for the name of the airport closest to the site - the Santa Ynez airport.