The Faulkes Telescope South is a clone of the

Liverpool Telescope The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is a two-metre-aperture robotic Ritchey–Chrétien telescope that observes autonomously (without human intervention). However professional astronomers, school groups and other credible registered users submit speci ...

and is located at

Siding Spring Observatory Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU), incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a coll ...

in New South Wales, Australia. It is a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. It was designed to be operated remotely with the aim of encouraging an interest in science by young people. It is supported by an

altazimuth mount An altazimuth mount or alt-azimuth mount is a simple two-axis mount for supporting and rotating an instrument about two perpendicular axes – one vertical and the other horizontal. Rotation about the vertical axis varies the azimuth (compass bea ...

. The telescope is owned and operated by

LCOGT Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) is a network of astronomical observatories run by a non-profit private operating foundation directed by the technologist Wayne Rosing. Its offices are in Goleta, California. The telescopes are located at both northe ...

. This telescope and its sister telescope

Faulkes Telescope North The Faulkes Telescope North is a clone of the Liverpool Telescope, and is located at Haleakala Observatory in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is a f/10 Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. The telescope is owned and operated by LCOGT. This telescope and ...

are used by research and education groups across the globe. The

Faulkes Telescope Project The Faulkes Telescope Project (FTP) is supported by the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust. It provides access to 1,500 hours of observing time on two 2-metre class telescopes located in Hawaii (Faulkes Telescope North in Hawaii) and Australia (Faulkes ...

is one such group which provides observing time (awarded by LCOGT) for educational projects for UK schools. Funds were initially sourced by charitable donations from philanthropist Dr. Martin C. Faulkes. Faulkes Telescope South saw first light in 2004 with full operations occurring by 2006.

Discoveries

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is a small near-Earth asteroid which at the time of its discovery was the most rapidly rotating object in the solar system.

Observations

On the 4 May 2007 the first ever observation of one of the satellites of

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passing in front of another was made by Marton Hidas and Tim Brown. In 2013 it was used to image the Near-Earth asteroid

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References

External links

Faulkes Telescope website

The RoboNet
global network which controls the Faulkes Telescopes over the internet Robotic telescopes Siding Spring Observatory 2004 establishments in Australia {{observatory-stub

Discoveries

Observations

See also

References

External links