Lizard Hollow Observatory
Tucson, AZ USA

Thomas L. Gandet, Director

Theodore W. Fusby, Engineering Consultant

LHO Observing Programs and Research Include:
From 2001 until 2009, a 0.28-m SCT was used for UBVR_cI_c 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.

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