Author Archives: Matthew Allen

The FT Team had a busy but fun-packed time at the British Science Festival and family weekend last week in Swansea. The British Science Festival is Europe’s longest-standing national event which brings together scientists, engineers, technologists and social scientists with …

First discovered as an asteroid by Spacewatch in 2000, it was named (60558) Echeclus and it remained as an inconspicuous object for the next 5 years, until that is it burst into life, ejecting a dust coma into space and transforming itself into a …

The Faulkes Telescope Project team are proud to announce the launch of our new YouTube channel. We know that many people enjoy finding out more about astronomy or learning techniques for using the telescopes and astronomical software through screencasts and …

The Faulkes Telescope Project recently ran a full day CPD event at Cardiff University in conjunction with Techniquest. This welcomed 12 physics teachers who were introduced to some of the Faulkes educational resources and how they can be used in …

You may have heard about yet another breakthrough in gravitational-wave astronomy. LIGO and Virgo have detected more gravitational waves, but this time from an entirely different source. This new source also meant scientists at LCO were able to use the telescope network to contribute …

Towards the end of 2017, the team at the Faulkes Telescope Project were excited to announce that we would be returning to real-time observing with the LCO telescopes. Using an interface developed exclusively for us by the team at LCO, …

Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) are inviting teachers and pupils to take part in an important global campaign. Having been awarded telescope time with Las Cumbres Observatory, they would like people to acquire and create an image of the heavens that …