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 updated information on the state of the weather to us here at LCOGT.
Sedgwick Reserve is located in the Santa Ynez valley and is part of the Santa Barbara county. The Bryne Observatory is located at an elevation of 1,640 feet or roughly 500 meters. Sedgwick is often referred to by the acronym SQA, which stands for the name of the airport closest to the site - the Santa Ynez airport.
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This site is stationed at the headquarters of LCOGT located in the city of Goleta, California. Most of the manufacturing for the 0.4m telescopes is carried out at this location, as is the design for the 1m telescopes. The telescopes at this site are located in the back parking lot of the facilities, thus earning the site the name BPL.
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Located near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, Siding Spring is a location known for the many telescopes stationed in that region. There are twelve telescopes in Siding Spring including LCOGT's 2 meter telescope called FTS, which is short for Faulkes Telescope South. FTS is positioned at an elevation of nearly 3,661 feet or 1,116 meters.
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The observatory site on Mt. Haleakala is 10,000 feet above sea level. Here the observing conditions are very good as the 2 meter telescope is above much of the earth's atmosphere. Currently Faulkes Telescope North, also called FTN, is the only fully operational LCOGT telescope at this site, which lies on a dormant volcano.
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