The Faulkes Telescope South is a clone of the Liverpool Telescope

Liverpool Telescope

The Liverpool Telescope is a fully robotic telescope that observes autonomously, i.e. it operates without human intervention. Professional astronomers and other registered users submit observation specifications to be considered by the telescope's robotic control system at any time of the day or...

 and is located at Siding Spring Observatory

Siding Spring Observatory

Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University , incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National...

. It is a 2 m (78.7 in) Ritchey-Chrétien telescope

Ritchey-Chrétien telescope

A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope is a specialized Cassegrain telescope designed to eliminate coma, thus providing a large field of view compared to a more conventional configuration. An RCT has a hyperbolic primary and a hyperbolic secondary mirror. It was invented in the early 1910s by American...

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The telescope is owned and operated by LCOGT. This telescope and its sister telescope Faulkes Telescope North

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.The telescope is owned and operated by LCOGT. This telescope and its sister telescope Faulkes Telescope South are used by research and education groups across the...

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

Faulkes Telescope Project

The Faulkes Telescope Project 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 and Australia...

 is one such group which provides observing time (awarded by LCOGT) for educational projects for UK schools.

See also

• List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
• Faulkes Telescope North
  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.The telescope is owned and operated by LCOGT. This telescope and its sister telescope Faulkes Telescope South are used by research and education groups across the...
  
  
• Liverpool Telescope
  Liverpool Telescope
  The Liverpool Telescope is a fully robotic telescope that observes autonomously, i.e. it operates without human intervention. Professional astronomers and other registered users submit observation specifications to be considered by the telescope's robotic control system at any time of the day or...
  
  

External links

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