Faulkes Telescope South

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The Faulkes Telescope South (which was cloned to build the Liverpool Telescope), and is located at Siding Spring Observatory. It is a 2m reflecting telescope which is used for research as well as for use by school children around the world over the internet. it now belongs to the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope.

The Faulkes Telescope website provides data about the telescopes as well as educational materials that teachers can use with students. A number of the activities detailed on the website have example sets of files with them so that teachers and students can try out the activities before deciding if they want to use the telescope themselves.

[edit] External links

• Faulkes Telescope website
• The RoboNet global network which controls the Faulkes Telescopes over the internet