Lizard Hollow Observatory
Tucson, AZ USA
Thomas L. Gandet, Director
Theodore W. Fusby, Engineering Consultant
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LHO has been proud to support the IAU
Task Force
LHO Observing Programs and Research
Include:
From 2001 until 2009, a 0.28-m SCT was used for UBVRcIc
photometry of program targets.
Photometry of Be and Be-like stars
and of visual double stars
comprised
virtually the entire observing program during those years.
LHO's current telescope is the 0.36-m Beardsley Memorial SCT, which became operational
in May 2011.
The observing program with the 0.36-m is now devoted to visual observations of
various types of
unusual or poorly-studied variable stars. These observations are submitted
to the AAVSO International
Database. "Desk reseaarch" continues on early-type spectroscopic
and eclipsing binary stars,
nova-like and cataclysmic variables, as well as variable stars of
unusual or uncertain type.
LHO research programs have also used the 0.9-m coudé feed spectrograph
at the
Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Spectra for LHO's 2003 delta Sco campaign were generously prorvided by the
Mt. Laguna Observatory
of the San Diego State University.
Stellar photometry for several projects has been carried out at
the LHO and
using telescopes of the
United States Naval Observatory/Flagstaff
Station,
the Tenagra Observatories, and
the AAVSONet world-wide telescope network.
for the Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates (PDPP).
The Task Force is sponsored by IAU Commission 5, Astronomical Data.
Since 2005, LHO has hosted the PDPP web site, which also contains links to
PDPP-related web sites.
It is still accessible here at the current PDPP web site.
A newly
re-designed PDPP web site is coming together and visitors landing here
are directed to the
new PDPP web site.
The web site hosted by LHO will be
availble, but not updated, until the new web site is accessible.
SCAN-IT #6 is available only
from the new web site.
This weather forecast for the Lizard Hollow Observatory is provided by the Canadian Meteorological Centre.
Atila Danko maintains the web site, and Allan Rahill and colleagues at the CMC prepare the forecasts.
This web site was last updated on April 15, 2013.