News: Research

Schoolgirl makes new discoveries with the FTs!

sroberts — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:59:37 -0500

A 6th form student from Cardiff, working on a summer work experience project at the University of Glamorgan, has helped astronomers discover over 20 new asteroids and a comet in the process of breaking up.

Help astronomers observe the first Earth 'Trojan' asteroid, 2010 TK7

sroberts — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:35:32 -0500

Observations from the Faulkes Telescope Project have helped NASA confirm the discovery of the Earth's first Trojan asteroid.

UK schools help observe new asteroids

sroberts — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:50:51 -0500

You know that saying about waiting for a bus, and then two come along at once…well, with a new research project being led by amateur astronomers in the UK and Italy, in this case it was 7…new asteroids

A year of discovery and exploration with the FTs

sroberts — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:47:46 -0500

Since the remarkable global news coverage which accompanied the discovery that Comet C2007/Q3 was breaking up, back in early2010, Nick Howes, Equipment consultant at Astronomy Now magazine has been working with the team at Faulkes on programs which the twin 2m telescopes can really flex their amazing muscles on.

When is a comet..not a comet?

sroberts — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:41:36 -0500

Observers coordinating a NEO and comet recovery program using the twin 2metre Faulkes Telescopes today pushed the limits with a long duration run on a newly discovered object.

Known initially as P100ib4, this object was flagged up by the IAU's minor planet centre as displaying a potentially unusual orbit, but had only been observed on a single night.

CARA team members Nick Howes, Giovanni Sostero and Ernesto Guido, scheduled a 90 minute session on Faulkes North in an attempt to determine the objects' true nature.

FT discovers new asteroid!

sroberts — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:47:42 -0500

A team involving Astronomy Now's Nick Howes along with Italians G.Sostero and E.Guido of the CARA comet research group, recently had the opportunity to image comet 174P/Echeclus nearly simultaneously with both the 2-m Faulkes Telescopes, under excellent seeing conditions, from Haleakala (Hawaii) and Siding Spring (Australia).

The Comet's Coma

Schools Complete X-Ray Binary Observing Project

flewis — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:38:07 -0500