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Symposium on Telescope Science Proceedings for the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Astronomical Sciences Symposium on Telescope Science Editors: Brian D. Warner Robert K. Buchheim Jerry L. Foote Dale Mais May 21-23, 2012 Big Bear Lake, CA Disclaimer The acceptance of a paper for the SAS proceedings does not imply nor should it be inferred as an endorsement by the Society for Astronomical Sciences of any product, service, or method mentioned in the paper. Published by the Society for Astronomical Sciences, Inc. Rancho Cucamonga, CA First printing: May 2013 Photo Credits: Front Cover: NGC 4565 Alson Wong, Riverside Astronoimcal Society Back Cover: Center for Solar System Studies (CS3) site, Landers, CA, Robert D. Stephens, Center for Solar System Studies Table of Contents PREFACE I CONFERENCE SPONSORS III SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE V PRESENTATION PAPERS 1 A CALL FOR OBSERVATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE 2013 LADEE MISSION TO THE MOON 3 BRIAN CUDNIK JEE2012 OBSERVING CAMPAIGN PRELIMINARY RESULTS 9 SCOTT DEGENHARDT, B. GÄHRKEN, B. GIACCHINI, E. IVERSON, A. SCHECK, B. TIMERSON, M. MILLER, J. TALBOT, D. TROWBRIDGE USING JPL HORIZONS DATABASE FOR PREDICTIONS OF JUPITER EXTINCTION EVENTS (JEE) 17 WAYNE GREEN THE 4-POINT BACKYARD DIURNAL PARALLAX METHOD TESTED ON A CHALLENGING FAR AWAY TARGET: DWARF PLANET 134340 PLUTO 25 EDUARDO MANUEL ÁLVAREZ, ROBERT K. BUCHHEIM ASTEROID PHOTOMETRY: 1110 JAROSLAWA: 37 RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION 37 KEVIN D. RYAN, DR. MAURICE CLARK, JULIAN OEY, FREDERICK PILCHER FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS OF A SAMPLE OF STARS IN THE MOTESS-GNAT MG1 VARIABLE STAR CATALOG 41 ROY A. TUCKER, ERIC R. CRAINE, KENNETH M. FLURCHICK, ADAM L. KRAUS, BENJAMIN F. GRIEGO CONTACT BINARY CANDIDATES IN THE MOTESS-GNAT MG1 VARIABLE STAR CATALOG 47 ERIC R. CRAINE, ROY A. TUCKER, KENNETH M. FLURCHICK, ADAM L. KRAUS, BENJAMIN F. GRIEGO MULTI-EFFECT VARIABLES IN THE KEPLER DATABASE 55 JERRY D. HORNE CLOSE DOUBLE STAR SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY PROGRAM 61 RUSSELL GENET, PAUL HARDERSEN, ROBERT BUCHHEIM, KAKKALA MOHANAN AND REBECCA CHURCH, ERIC WEISE, JOE RICHARDS, DAVID ROWE, JOLYON JOHNSON SEARCHING FOR WHITE DWARF EXOPLANETS: WD 2359-434 CASE STUDY 73 BRUCE L. GARY, T. G. TAN, IVAN CURTIS, PAUL J. TRISTRAM, AKIHIKO FUKUI RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH AT THE OAKLEY OBSERVATORIES 81 RICHARD DITTEON BRINGING STUDENTS TO ASTRONOMY 85 GILBERT CLARK BOHDAN PACZYŃSKI - A VERSATILE MIND IN A VARIABLE UNIVERSE 87 R.V. LAPOINTE THE SEDONA 89-A ROADWAY LIGHTING PROJECT: DARK SKIES AND ASTRONOMY IN NORTHERN ARIZONA 99 ERIC R. CRAINE, BRIAN L. CRAINE, ERIN M. CRAINE, PATRICK R. CRAINE, SCOTT FOUTS, MARGARET H. CRAINE SKYGLOWNET: AN INTERNET-ENABLED LIGHT AT NIGHT MONITORING SYSTEM 107 ERIN M. CRAINE, ERIC R. CRAINE, BRIAN L. CRAINE, DAVID L. CRAWFORD PUTTING THE NEW SPECTROMETER TO WORK (PART II) 111 JOHN MENKE, ANDREW P. ODELL A SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE BLUE COMPONENT OF ALBIREO 119 KENNETH R WHIGHT BSC (HONS) 21ST CENTURY LIGHTNING PROTECTION FOR HIGH ALTITUDE OBSERVATORIES 125 RICHARD KITHIL CONFIGURING A LARGE DOBSON FOR REMOTE IMAGING 129 RICHARD H STANTON OASIS UNDER A CANOPY OF STARS 135 ROBERT STEPHENS PAPERS WITHOUT PRESENTATION AND POSTERS 141 LIGHT AT NIGHT MARKUP LANGUAGE (LANML): XML TECHNOLOGY FOR LIGHT AT NIGHT MONITORING DATA 143 B. L. CRAINE, E. R. CRAINE, E. M. CRAINE, D. L. CRAWFORD CHARACTERIZATION OF LIGHT AT NIGHT DATA FROM SELECT SKYGLOWNET NODES 151 K.M.FLURCHICK, S. DEAL, C. FOSTER THE MAUI INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE STAR CONFERENCE AND THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DOUBLE STAR OBSERVERS 155 RUSSELL M. GENET, JOLYON JOHNSON EARTH- AND SPACE-BASED LIGHT BUCKET INTENSITY INTERFEROMETRY ANALYSIS 159 RUSSELL GENET, BRUCE HOLENSTEIN, JOSEPH RITTER, ELLIOTT HORCH, GERARD VAN BELLE, REED ESTRADA, CHRIS ESTRADA, ANDREW AURIGEMA, LISA BRODHACKER, JODI CHRISTIANSEN AND LLUVIA RODRIGUEZ, DAVE KIEDA NEAR-IR SPECTROSCOPY OF V-TYPE ASTEROIDS 171 PAUL S. HARDERSEN, RUSSELL M. GENET, RACHEL ROBERTS AN EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE SOLAR LIMB DARKENING USING RSPEC SPECTROSCOPY SOFTWARE 177 ROBERT M. GILL ECLIPSING BINARIES WITH POSSIBLE TERTIARY COMPONENTS 181 LEROY F. SNYDER SEEING DOUBLE: BINARY ASTEROID DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS AT THE PALMER DIVIDE OBSERVATORY 187 BRIAN D. WARNER Preface Preface Welcome to the 32nd annual SAS Symposium on Telescope Science. Not everyone wants to give a presentation but they still want to contribute to the Symposium by submitting a paper for the proceedings and so as before the proceedings include a section not just for poster papers but “pa- pers without presentation.” It takes many people to have a successful conference, starting with the Conference Committee. This year the regular committee members are: Lee Snyder Robert D. Stephens Robert Gill Jerry L. Foote Cindy Foote Margaret Miller Brian D. Warner Robert K. Buchheim Dale Mais There are many others involved in a successful conference. The editors take time to note the many volunteers who put in considerable time and resources. We also thank the staff and management of the Northwoods Resort in Big Bear Lake, CA, for their efforts at accommodating the Society and our activities. Membership dues alone do not fully cover the costs of the Society and annual conference. We owe a great debt of gratitude to our corporate sponsors: Sky and Telescope, Woodland Hils Camera and Telescopes, Software Bisque, Santa Barbara Instruments Group, PlaneWave Instruments, Apogee Instruments, Inc., and DC-3 Dreams. Thank you! Finally, there would be no conference without our speakers and poster presenters and those sitting attentively in the audience (you’re not doing your email right now, are you?). We thank them for making this one of the premiere pro-am events in the world. Brian D. Warner Robert K. Buchheim Jerry L. Foote Dale Mais 2013 April 27 I II Conference Sponsors Conference Sponsors The conference organizers thank the following companies for their significant contributions and financial sup- port. Without them, this conference would not be possible. Apogee Imaging Systems Manufacturers of astronomical and scientific imaging cameras http://www.ccd.com Sky Publishing Corporation Publishers of Sky and Telescope Magazine http://skyandtelescope.com Woodland Hills Camera & Telescopes Telescopes.NET Providing the best prices in astronomical products for more than 50 years http://www.telescopes.net Software Bisque Developers of TheSky Astronomy Software and the Paramount Telescope Mount http://www.bisque.com Santa Barbara Instruments Group Makers of astronomical instrumentation http://www.sbig.com PlaneWave Instruments Makers of the CDK line of telescopes http://www.planewaveinstruments.com:80/index.php DC-3 Dreams Software Developers of ACP Observatory Control Software http://www.dc3.com/ III IV Symposium Schedule Symposium Schedule The schedule is subject to change without notice. Meeting Courtesies Please turn off cell phones, pagers, and alarms during presentations. Please be kind to the presenters and wait until breaks to check your email and browse the In- ternet. Yeah, we know. Please be considerate of those in the meeting room near the wall with the vendor’s room. If visiting the vendor’s room during presentations, please keep voices down and do not use the direct entrance between the vendor’s and meeting rooms. Enter the meeting room from the hallway. If you do not want your presentation to be recorded (video/audio) and/or not posted on the SAS web site, please let us know before your talk begins. Thanks! SAS Program Committee V Symposium Schedule VI Presentation Papers 1 2 Cudnik: Observatoins for 2013 LADEE Mission A Call for Observations in Support of the 2013 LADEE Mission to the Moon Brian Cudnik Department of Chemistry & Physics Prairie View A&M University P.O. Box 519, M.S. 2230 Prairie View, Texas 77446 Abstract At the 2012 Telescope Research Symposium I introduced a program which involves monitoring the moon for meteoroid impacts, and I introduced a mission to the moon known as LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Envi- ronment Explorer). This year I plan to review the key points from last year, update on the status and the progress of LADEE, and lay out an observing plan designed to support this mission and continue beyond the expected lifetime of the mission. Currently the launch window opens August 12 (the date of the Perseid maximum) for LADEE and once launched, will take 30 days to get to the moon, 30 days for testing and checkout, then 100 days for science operations. As a result, from around mid-October 2013 to mid-January 2014 (assuming a mid- August launch and on-time arrival and check-out), the mission will be active and the need will be great for con- tinuous ground-based monitoring of the moon for meteoroid impacts.. 1. Introduction The moon serves as an excellent laboratory for high velocity impact studies, the likes of which are For the past seven and one half years, the Moon not yet possible in the laboratories on Earth which are has been regularly monitored for impacts by the Me- limited to impact speeds of less than 10 km/sec. Ob- teoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall serving projects over the years have attempted to Space Flight Center in Alabama. As of January 2013 make use of this fact with limited success. Apollo they have logged nearly 300 impact candidates [1], seismometers left on the lunar surface in the 1970’s showing that meteoroid impacts on the moon that are registered many instances of moonquakes, some of observable from Earth are fairly common. Aside which were produced by meteoroid impacts. This is from an increase in the probability of witnessing dur- especially useful since the location and strength of ing an annual shower, the main challenges remain the the impact event could be correlated between two or randomness of occurrence of impact flashes along more seismometers. Unfortunately all four of the with the extremely short duration of the flash. How- seismometers were decommissioned by 1978.
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