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Title: Small Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales, IAU Colloquium 183
Volume: 246 Year: 2001 View this Volume on ADS
Editors: Paczynski, Bohdan; Chen, Wen-Ping; Lemme, Claudia
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Opening Remarks 1 Paczyński, Bohdan
The Whole Earth Telescope: An International Adventure in Asteroseismology 3 Kawaler, Steven D.
MONET: a MOnitoring NEtwork of Telescopes 13 Hessman, Frederic V.
The STARBASE Network of Telescopes and the Detection of Extrasolar Planets 23 McGruder, Charles H., III; Everett, Mark E.; Howell, Steve B.
STARBASE: A Network of Fully Autonomous Telescopes for Hands-on Science Education 31 Gelderman, Richard; Barnaby, David; Carini, Michael; Hackney, Karen; Hackney, Richard; McGruder, Charles; Scott, Roger
The NORT: Network of Oriental Robotic Telescopes 33 Hajjar, Roger; Querci, François R.; Querci, Monique
Taiwan Oscillation Network and Small-Telescope Research at Tsing Hua University 39 Chou, Dean-Yi
Monitoring Variability of the Sky 45 Paczyński, Bohdan
The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS-3) System - Its Operation and Preliminary Data 53 Pojmański, G.
RTLinux Driven Hungarian Automated Telescope for All Sky Monitoring 59 Bakos, Gáspár Á.
The Grid Giant Star Survey for the Space Interferometry Mission 65 Patterson, Richard J.; Majewski, Steven R.; Slesnick, Catherine L.; Rhee, Jaehyon; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Polak, Allyson A.; Kundu, Arunav; Kunkel, William E.; Geisler, Douglas; Munoz, Ricardo; Arenas, Jose; Seguel, Juan; Gieren, Wolfgang; Smith, Verne V.; Benedict, G. Fritz; Johnston, Kathryn V.
A Robotic Wide-Angle Hα Survey of the Southern Sky 75 Gaustad, John E.; Rosing, Wayne; McCullough, Peter; Van Buren, Dave
MOA Extra-Solar Planet Research via Cluster Supercomputing 77 Rattenbury, Nicholas; Bond, Ian; Yock, Phil; Skuljan, Jovan
YSTAR : Yonsei Survey Telescopes for Astronomical Research 83 Byun, Yong-Ik; Han, Won-Yong; Kang, Yong-Woo; Chun, Moo-Young; Yu, Sung-Yeol; Park, Sun-Youp; Kim, Sang-Chul; Moon, Hong-Kyu; Shin, Jong-Seop; Lee, Kyu-Baek
The 1.3-meter Robotically Controlled Telescope: Developing a Fully Autonomous Observatory 89 Gelderman, Richard
The Development of Advanced-Technology Automated/Robotic Telescope Systems and the Future of Small-Telescope Astronomy 95 Williams, Richard J.; Mulherin, James
Progress Report for the KAO 1.0 meter Robotic Telescope 103 Mack, Peter; Han, Wonyong; Bradstreet, Matthew; Borstad, Anthony; Park, Jang-Hyun; Jin, Ho; Lee, Woo-Baik; Lee, Chung-Uk
ACE FlexGrid Telescope Flexure and Pointing Software 111 Mack, Peter; Stein, John; Han, Wonyong
Development of the Far-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph on KAISTSAT-4 113 Han, Wonyong; Min, Kyoung Wook; Edelstein, Jerry; Nam, Uk-Won; Seon, Jong-Ho; Seon, Kwang-Il; Park, Jang-Hyun; Yuk, In-Soo; Jin, Ho; Lee, Woo-Baik; Kang, Kyungin; Ryu, Kwangsun; Rhee, Jin-Geun; Lee, Dae-Hee; Korpela, Eric; Van Dyke Dixon, W.
Design of a Multi-CCD Controller 115 Kang, Yong-Woo; Byun, Yong-Ik; Yu, Sung-Yeol; Park, Sun-Youp; Park, Yeo-Jin
The Multiple Telescope Telescope, an Inexpensive Fiber Fed Spectroscopic Facility 117 Riddle, Reed L.; Bagnuolo, William G., Jr.
The Lick Observatory Supernova Search with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope 121 Filippenko, Alexei V.; Li, W. D.; Treffers, R. R.; Modjaz, Maryam
The Beijing Astronomical Observatory Supernova Survey 131 Qiu, Yulei; Hu, Jingyao; Li, Weidong
Optical Identification of Gamma-Ray Bursts at Kenting Observatory 143 Sun, Wei-Hsin; Tseng, Shun-Tang
Early Results from HETE-2 149 Kawai, N.; Yoshida, A.; Tamagawa, T.; Matsuoka, M.; Shirasaki, Y.; Ricker, G.; Crew, G.; Doty, J.P.; Levine, A.; Vanderspek, R.; Villasenor, J.; Monnelly, G.; Atteia, J.-L.; Vedrenne, G.; Olive, J.-F.; Boer, M.; Fenimore, E.E.; Galassi, M.; Issler, J.-L.; Colongo, C.; Hurley, K.; Jernigan, J.G.; Lamb, D.Q.; Graziani, C.; Pizzichini, G.; Woosely, S.; Takagishi, K.; Hatsukade, I.; Yamauchi, M.; Cline, T.
RIBOTS: An Automatic Telescope System for Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Observations 155 Urata, Yuji; Kawai, Nobuyuki; Yoshida, Atsumasa; Kohama, Mitsuhiro; Kawabata, Tetsuya; Ayani, Kazuya
A Spectrograph for Prompt Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with a 1-m Telescope 157 Kawabata, Tetsuya; Ayani, Kazuya; Fujii, Mitsugu; Urata, Yuji; Kawai, Nobuyuki; Ebizuka, Noboru
Cataclysmic Variables: A 'SWOT' Analysis 159 Warner, Brian
Optical and Near-IR Monitoring of Symbiotic Binary Systems 167 Mikolajewska, Joanna
The Rotation and Variability of T Tauri Stars: Results of Two Decades of Monitoring at Van Vleck Observatory 177 Herbst, W.
High-Speed Photometry of Bright roAp Stars With Small Telescopes 187 Kurtz, D. W.
The Moscow Long-Term Program of Cepheid Radial Velocities 197 Samus, Nikolai; Gorynya, Natalia
High Speed CCD Photometry of Flare Stars 203 Park, Sun-Youp; Byun, Yong-Ik
Search for δ Scuti Type Pulsating Components in Eclipsing Binary Systems 205 Kim, S.-L.; Lee, J. W.; Youn, J.-H.; Moon, H.-K.; Choo, K.J.
Long-period Red Variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud from the MOA Database 207 Takeuti, Mine; Noda, S.; Abe, F.; Bond, I.A.; Dodd, R.J.; Hearnshaw, J.B.; Honda, M.; Jugaku, J.; Kabe, S.; Kilmartin, P.M.; Matsubara, Y.; Masuda, K.; Muraki, Y.; Nakamura, T.; Nankivell, G.R.; Noguchi, C.; Ohnishi, K.; Rattenbury, N.J.; Reid, M.; Saito, To.; Sato, H.; Sekiguchi, M.; Skuljan, J.; Sullivan, D.J.; Sumi, T.; Watase, Y.; Yanagisawa, T.; Yock, P.C.M.; Yoshizawa, M.
Spectroscopic Detection of an Extraordinary Flaring-Event on DF Tau 209 Li, J. Z.; Chen, W. P.; Ip, W. H.
Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 2539 211 Choo, K. J.; Kim, S.-L.; Yoon, T. S.; Chun, M.-Y.; Sung, H.; Park, B.-G.; Ann, H.B.; Lee, M.G.; Jeon, Y.-B.; Yuk, I.-S.
The Ongoing Search for Variables in Young Clusters: Up-to-Date Results and Perspectives 213 Pigulski, A.; Kopacki, G.; Kolaczkowski, Z.; Jerzykiewicz, M.
Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M92 216 Kopacki, Grzegorz
Blazhko Cycles of ω Centauri RRab Stars 217 Jurcsik, Johanna
A Near Infrared Camera Refrigerated by Two Stirling Machines - an Alternative to Robotic Telescopes 219 José, K.; Ishitsuka, I.; Wada, Takehiko; Ieda, Fumihiko; Tokimasa, Noritaka; Kuroda, Takehiko; Morimoto, Masaki; Miyaji, Takeshi; Kuroda, Tajehiko; Morimoto, Masaki; Miyaji, Takeshi; Omodaka, Toshihiro; Ueno, Munetaka; Hasegawa, Wataru; Narusawa, Shin-ya; Waki, Yoshifumi
Observations of Variable Stars by the 76-cm SuperLight Telescope of NCU 221 Li, J. Z.; Wu, C. H.; Zhang, Z. W.; Chang, C.P.; Lin, C.Y.; Li, H.H.; Tsay, W.H.; Ip, W.H.; Chen, W.P.
Observations of Variable Stars With a Small Telescope at Tabriz University 223 Jassur, D. M. Z.; Adabi, F.; Cham, N. A.
The Role of Small Telescopes in the Discovery and Follow-up of Near Earth Objects 233 Boattini, Andrea
NEOPAT: Near-Earth Object PATrol program 240 Moon, Hong-Kyu; Chun, Moo-Young; Byun, Yong-Ik; Han, Wonyong; Kim, Seung-Lee; Jeon, Young-Beom; Kang, Yong-Woo
An Education Program Using Tera-Byte NEA Observation Data 245 Asami, A.; Asher, D. J.; Hashimoto, T.; Isobe, S.; Nishiyama, S.; Ohshima, Y.; Terazono, J.; Urata, T.; Yoshikawa, M.
CCD Photometry of Two Asteroids (895) Helio and (165) Loreley 251 Woo, H.-S.; Kim, S.-L.; Chun, M.-Y.; Park, M.-G.
The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects 253 King, Sun-Kun
Distinguishing KBO from Asteroid Occultations in TAOS 259 Lemme, Claudia; Liang, Chyng-Lan
The Humps of KBO's Size Distribution 261 Chen, Cheng-Pin; Jiang, Ing-Guey
The True Colors of KBOs 263 Hsu, Hui-Chun; Ip, Wing-Huen
Revealing Variety of Comets by Long-Term Monitoring Observation with a 50-cm Telescope 265 Watanabe, Jun-Ichi; Fukushima, Hideo
A Simulation of Shell Structures of Comet Hale-Bopp in February 1997 271 Tao, J.; Qian, B. C.
Cometary Polarimetry 275 Sen, Asoke K.
Observation of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) 277 Lin, C. Y.; Ip, W. H.
High Spatial Resolution Observations of the 1998 and 1999 Leonid Meteors 279 Jiang, X. J.; Hu, J. Y.
Project MONICA for the Study of Time-Variable Phenomena of the Jovian Sodium Cloud and the Io Plasma Torus 281 Chang, Chien-Pang; Ip, Wing
Long-Term Coudé Radial-Velocity Studies With a 1.2-m Telescope 283 Scarfe, C. D.
INTEGRAL and Small Telescopes 289 Mowlavi, Nami; Kretschmar, Peter; Türler, Marc; Produit, Nicolas
The Carl Sagan Observatory: A Telescope for Everyone 295 Saucedo-Morales, J.; Sánchez-Ibarra, A.; Lunt, D.
The NCU Lu-Lin Observatory 299 Tsay, Wean-Shun; Chen, Alfred Bing-Chih; Chang, Kuang-Hsiang; Li, Huan-Hsin
Monitoring of AGNs at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory 305 Qian, B. C.; Tao, J.
Fast Drift-Scan CCD Imaging and Photometry with Small Telescopes: Lunar Occultations and Speckle Interferometry 309 Núñez, Jorge; Fors, Octavi
The Automated Telescope of Novosibirsk State University 315 Nesterenko, A.; Nikulin, M.; Vyprentsev, D.; Zaytsev, A.; Nesterenko, I.; Prosvetov, V.; Tsukanov, V.; Valishev, A.
Some Aspects of Astronomy at Maidanak Observatory 317 Hojaev, Alisher S.
Observational Results with the 1 Meter Telescope at Yunnan Observatory During 1990-2000 324 Chen, P. S.; Zhang, W. Y.
Systematic Spectroscopic Observations on Small Telescopes: Past and Future Research of Stellar Kinematics 327 Sachkov, M. E.; Glushkova, E. V.; Rastorguev, A. S.
Advantages and Drawbacks of the ISM Method in Globular Cluster Photometry 329 Benko, József M.
Spatial Structure of Star Clusters by the 2MASS Database 331 Chen, J. W.; Chen, W. P.
The Kinematics of Globular Cluster NGC 288 333 Chang, Chan-Kao; Chen, Alfred B.; Tsay, Wean-Shun; Chen, Wen-Ping; Lu Phillip K.
Bright Young Star Candidates in the Rosette Nebula 335 Chiang, P. S.; Chen, W. P.; Li, J. Z.; Chu, Y.-H.
Deprojection of Planetary Nebulae 337 Zhang, Z. W.; Ip, W. H.
Chemical Abundances of the Planetary Nebulae NGC 2392 and NGC 3242 339 Wu, C. H.; Li, J. Z.; Chang, Z. W.; Lin, C.Y.; Hu, J.Y.; Ip, W.H.
Former Soviet Union / West Europe Consortium for AGN Monitoring 341 Bochkarev, N. G.; Shapovalova, A. I.; Burenkov, A. N.
Russian/Former Soviet Union Experience in Small Telescope Usage for Investigation of Interstellar Matter (ISM) and Nebulae 343 Bochkarev, N. G.
Russian/Former Soviet Union Experience in Professional Small Telescope Usage 345 Bochkarev, N. G.
Concluding Remarks 353 Warner, Brian
Appendix: a List of Robotic Telescopes 357 Hessman, Frederic V.