Small-telescope astronomy on global scales : IAU Colloquium 183 : proceedings of a colloquium held in Kenting, Taiwan, 4-8 January 2001 /
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| Meeting name: | IAU Colloquium (183rd : 2001 : Kenting, Taiwan) |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, c2001. |
| Description: | x, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series ; v. 246 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4581711 |
Table of Contents:
- Conference Poster
- Preface
- List of Participants
- Conference Photograph
- Opening Remarks
- I.. Telescope Arrays and Networking
- The Whole Earth Telescope: An International Adventure in Asteroseismology
- MONET: a MOnitoring NEtwork of Telescopes
- The STARBASE Network of Telescopes and the Detection of Extrasolar Planets
- STARBASE: A Network of Fully Autonomous Telescopes for Hands-on Science Education
- The NORT: Network of Oriental Robotic Telescopes
- Taiwan Oscillation Network and Small-Telescope Research at Tsing Hua University
- II.. Monitoring and Surveys
- Monitoring Variability of the Sky
- The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS-3) System--Its Operation and Preliminary Data
- RTLinux Driven Hungarian Automated Telescope for All Sky Monitoring
- The Grid Giant Star Survey for the Space Interferometry Mission
- A Robotic Wide-Angle H[alpha] Survey of the Southern Sky
- MOA Extra-Solar Planet Research via Cluster Supercomputing
- YSTAR: Yonsei Survey Telescopes for Astronomical Research
- III.. New Trends in Small-Telescope Technology
- The 1.3-meter Robotically Controlled Telescope: Developing a Fully Autonomous Observatory
- The Development of Advanced-Technology Automated/Robotic Telescope Systems and the Future of Small-Telescope Astronomy
- Progress Report for the KAO 1.0 meter Robotic Telescope
- ACE FlexGrid Telescope Flexure and Pointing Software
- Development of the Far-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph on KAISTSAT-4
- Design of a Multi-CCD Controller
- The Multiple Telescope Telescope, an Inexpensive Fiber Fed Spectroscopic Facility
- IV.. Transient Events
- The Lick Observatory Supernova Search with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope
- The Beijing Astronomical Observatory Supernova Survey
- Optical Identification of Gamma-Ray Bursts at Kenting Observatory
- Early Results from HETE-2
- RIBOTS: An Automatic Telescope System for Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Observations
- A Spectrograph for Prompt Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with a 1-m Telescope
- V.. Variability Study
- Cataclysmic Variables: A 'SWOT' Analysis
- Optical and Near-IR Monitoring of Symbiotic Binary Systems
- The Rotation and Variability of T Tauri Stars: Results of Two Decades of Monitoring at Van Vleck Observatory
- High-Speed Photometry of Bright roAp Stars With Small Telescopes
- The Moscow Long-Term Program of Cepheid Radial Velocities
- High Speed CCD Photometry of Flare Stars
- Search for [delta] Scuti Type Pulsating Components in Eclipsing Binary Systems
- Long-period Red Variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud from the MOA Database
- Spectroscopic Detection of an Extraordinary Flaring-Event on DF Tau
- Search for Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 2539
- The Ongoing Search for Variables in Young Clusters: Up-to-Date Results and Perspectives
- Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M92
- Blazhko Cycles of [omega] Centauri RRab Stars
- A Near Infrared Camera Refrigerated by Two Stirling Machines--an Alternative to Robotic Telescopes
- Observations of Variable Stars by the 76-cm SuperLight Telescope of NCU
- Observations of Variable Stars With a Small Telescope at Tabriz University
- VI.. Solar System Studies
- The Role of Small Telescopes in the Discovery and Follow-up of Near Earth Objects
- NEOPAT: Near-Earth Object PATrol program
- An Education Program Using Tera-Byte NEA Observation Data
- CCD Photometry of Two Asteroids (895) Helio and (165) Loreley
- The Taiwan-America Occultation Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects
- Distinguishing KBO from Asteroid Occultations in TAOS
- The Humps of KBO's Size Distribution
- The True Colors of KBOs
- Revealing Variety of Comets by Long-Term Monitoring Observation with a 50-cm Telescope
- A Simulation of Shell Structures of Comet Hale-Bopp in February 1997
- Cometary Polarimetry
- Observation of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)
- High Spatial Resolution Observations of the 1998 and 1999 Leonid Meteors
- Project MONICA for the Study of Time-Variable Phenomena of the Jovian Sodium Cloud and the Io Plasma Torus
- VII.. Science With Small Telescopes
- Long-Term Coude Radial-Velocity Studies With a 1.2-m Telescope
- INTEGRAL and Small Telescopes
- The Carl Sagan Observatory: A Telescope for Everyone
- The NCU Lu-Lin Observatory
- Monitoring of AGNs at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- Fast Drift-Scan CCD Imaging and Photometry with Small Telescopes: Lunar Occultations and Speckle Interferometry
- The Automated Telescope of Novosibirsk State University
- Some Aspects of Astronomy at Maidanak Observatory
- Observational Results with the 1 Meter Telescope at Yunnan Observatory During 1990-2000
- Systematic Spectroscopic Observations on Small Telescopes: Past and Future Research of Stellar Kinematics
- Advantages and Drawbacks of the ISM Method in Globular Cluster Photometry
- Spatial Structure of Star Clusters by the 2MASS Database
- The Kinematics of Globular Cluster NGC 288
- Bright Young Star Candidates in the Rosette Nebula
- Deprojection of Planetary Nebulae
- Chemical Abundances of the Planetary Nebulae NGC 2392 and NGC 3242
- Former Soviet Union / West Europe Consortium for AGN Monitoring
- Russian/Former Soviet Union Experience in Small Telescope Usage for Investigation of Interstellar Matter (ISM) and Nebulae
- Russian/Former Soviet Union Experience in Professional Small Telescope Usage
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix. A List of Robotic Telescopes
