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An Intimate Relation with Two Automatic Telescopes for Almost Nine Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Douglas S. Hall  and
Gregory W. Henry
Douglas S. Hall
Affiliation:
Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee 37235, U.S.A.
Gregory W. Henry
Affiliation:
Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, U.S.A.

Abstract

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From Oct. 1983 through Dec. 1987 most of the observing capacity of the Boyd-Genet prototype 10-inch APT was devoted to a program of 92 variable stars the output of which was sent to us for analysis. From Nov. 1987 through the present the entire observing capacity of the VU-TSU 16-inch APT has been devoted to a program of 136 mostly magnetically active variables. We review the technical performance of both APTs in terms of malfunctions, down-time, resulting photometric accuracy, phase coverage, and scientific results to date.

Type
Session 4 Automatic Photoelectric Telescopes and Extinction
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 136: Stellar Photometry – Current Techniques and Future Developments , 1993 , pp. 205 - 212
Copyright
Copyright © C.J. Butler and I. Elliottt 1993

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