The Faulkes Telescope Project is a project allowing students to remotely control telescopes across the world. It enables students to take and process images of celestrial objects, track asteroids, analyse Near Earth Objects and discover exoplanets.

To visit the Faulkes website, click here

Image Processing

Taking images with Faulkes is easy. All you need are the coordinates of a star or galaxy you wish to capture, and you are ready to go! The coordinates are readily available on the internet, or via the Faulkes website. Then, by adjusting the frame time, colour filters and matrix of frames, you can take the perfect image! Then, using programs such as Adobe Photoshop and FITS Images, you can colourise the images to make them beautiful.

To learn how to colourise photo's, click here for the online tutorial.

All the appropriate files you need to be guided through are available here.

Faulkes Galleries

Relax while watching our classic gallery showing you some of the most spectacular sights in the universe

Be energised in our short snappy array of photo's with a twist