Scientific Research

Our interests range from supernovae to exoplanets. View our latest scientific papers:

Telescope Network

We have two 2-meter class telescopes and are building 1-meter and 0.4-meter class telescopes.

Our Staff

LCOGT has over 50 employees including research scientists, engineers and support staff.

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  Microlensing Forum

  A scientific community forum.
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  Observations

  All the latest public observations taken with our telescopes.
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  Image Gallery

  A gallery of our favorite photographs.
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  Agent Exoplanet

  Find exoplanets using data from our telescopes.
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  Instruments

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

  Existing collaborators can apply for observing time.
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  Weather

  The latest weather data from our telescope sites.
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  Space Book

  Information about general astronomy and telescopes.
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  Activities

  A range of educational activities from crosswords to craters.
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  Network Statistics

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

  Embed a virtual view of the sky in your own webpage.
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  Network Team

  The engineers and technicians that keep our network working.
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  How to

  Guides on how to do photometry, use FITS data and more.
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  Show Me Stars!

  Guest hosts tweet live while they observe with our network
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  Data Archive

  Our archive of scientific observations with the Faulkes Telescopes.
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  Seminar Series

  Lectures about astronomy by scientists visiting LCOGT
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  RoboNet-II

  Monitoring microlensing events in the Galactic Bulge.
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  Webcams

  See what is happening at our network sites.