Las Cumbres Observatory: Building a Global Telescope Network
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Las Cumbres Observatory: Building a Global Telescope Network
- 1. Las Cumbres Observatory Building a global network for professional and citizen scientists Edward Gomez Director of education and public engagement
- 2. Our Goals ✤ Establish and build a durable scientific institution dedicated to time-domain astrophysics ✤ Use astronomical research to inspire critical thinking & technical understanding in citizen scientists of all ages
- 3. Wayne Rosing The Boss
- 5. Time domain astronomy 0.4m Maui China? 0.8m Texas ? x 1m 3 x 1m 2m 4 x 0.4m Tenerife, Canary Islands ? x 0.4m 2 x 0.4m 4 x 0.4m 3 x 1m 2 x 1m Cerro Tololo, Chile Sutherland, S. Africa Siding Spring 4 x 0.4m 4 x 0.4m 3 x 1m 3 x 1m 2m 2 x 0.4m 2 x 1m 2 2013 42+ Telescopes = 2 x 2m, 16 x 1m, 24 x 0.4m + 2 2
- 6. Science LCOGT research Wider Community • Exoplanets • Open call for semesterised proposals • Transits • Multi-year Key Projects proposals • Microlensing • Adaptive network scheduler • Supernovae • Spectrograph, high-cadence camera, sky-mapper at each site • Palomar Transient Factory • 82 hours per calendar day at full • Supernova Cosmology project deployment • Solar System • NEO follow-up and identification
- 7. Telescope Classes 2m x 2 1m x 16 0.4m x 24 2005 2012 2007 2007
- 8. Santa Barbara, California : Headquarters
- 9. Typical site plan 9
- 11. 1m enclosures - Cerro Tololo, Chile 11
- 12. First 1m installed at MacDonald Observatory, Texas - 29 March 2012 First light image - 1 April 2012
- 15. Site Weather http://lcogt.net/weather
- 17. Education partners Faulkes Telescope Project IfA Hawaii Space to Grow programme (Australia) •Using 2m time with local amateurs, schools, teachers, undergraduates • Teacher training
- 18. Education & Citizen Science • Promote science investigations • Provide technological resources •Work with existing organisations • you support your userbase/programme using our resources • 100 hours per day available
- 20. http://lcogt.net/observations Observation archive
- 21. http://lcogt.net/virtualsky Virtual Sky
- 22. Star in a Box html,js,css http://lcogt.net/starinabox
- 23. Django, html, js,css, blood, Agent Exoplanet sweat & tears http://portal.lcogt.net/agentexoplanet
- 24. beta LCOGT Citizen science framework • Focused and directed core projects • Shallow learning curve before start online observing • Data processing tools online and seamlessly connected • Data quickly and simply analyzed by public • Individual’s results pooled and displayed as part of everyone’s results for the project • Publish results to online
- 25. beta LCOGT Citizen science framework
- 26. Celebrities using telescopes Show Me Stars and tweeting observations http://portal.lcogt.net/showmestars
- 27. Agent µExoplanet Future Projects Agent All-sky Agent NEO Agent Supernova
- 28. Summary • Global network of 42 telescopes: 2m, 1m, 0.4m • Full deployment 2013-2014 • Available to both professional and non-professionals to make proposals • Citizen Science projects from LCOGT and community • All observing, project management, and analysis done online • We provide the resources, you provide the community, together we do science
- 29. Links • http://lcogt.net/ • http://lcogt.net/education • http://lcogt.net/network Sign up for our newsletter http://lcogt.net/newsletter/signup THANK YOU