Research and Education at Appalachian State University's Dark Sky Observatory

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Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.4202c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #42.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1323

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Appalachian State University maintains a research and teaching observatory in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) facility includes 16-inch and 18-inch telescopes that have been used for 15 years to acquire photometric data on eclipsing binaries, and for spectroscopy. Another 16-inch telescope is under development for automated photometry--it has seen first light and is being debugged. The main telescope is a DFM Engineering 32-inch which has been in operation for a year and a half. Research programs include CCD/pmt photometry of eclipsing binaries, spectroscopy of Lambda Boo stars, and CCD photometric monitoring of high-z QSO's. Research and education programs at DSO have been supported with grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Astronomical Society, the Fund for Astronophysical Research, and the Cottrell Research Corporation.

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