Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, 114 attendees returned to the Northwoods Resort for the annual SAS Symposium. It was the highest attendance we ever had and attracted several international participants. This year was the revenge of the spectroscopists as four traveled from France including Valérie Desnoux and Christian Buel. In addition, Petr Pravec from the Czech Republic joined us to propose his Photometric Survey for Asynchronous Binary Asteroids, a collaborative effort to find main-belt binary asteroids.
In addition to the ‘heavy’ talks, Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory gave a talk on their collaboration for the Discovery Chanel Telescope being built in Arizona and Arne Henden, the newly appointed Executive Director of the AAVSO gave a talk on pro-am collaborations and how the AAVSO and SAS can work together.
The complete Proceedings are available.
David Kenyon and Wayne Watson: The All Sky Camera Fireball Detector
Robert Koff, Dirk Terrell, Arne Hendon, and Timothy Hager: DK Canum Venticorum: A Dynamic Eclipsing Binary Star
Dirk Terrell: HD23642 and the Distance to the Pleiades
David Bradstreet: Fundamentals of Solving Eclipsing Binary Light Curves Using Binary Maker 3
Dale Mais, Robert Stencel, and David Richards: Automated Photometry, Period Analysis nad Flare-up Constraints for Selected Mira Variable Stars
Russ Genet, Thomas Smith, Dirk Terrell, Laurance Doyle: CCD Observations and Preliminary Analysis of the “End-of-the-Line” W UMa Eclipsing Binary V523 CAS
Graham Bell: Resurrection of a Research Telescope
Petr Pravec: Photometric Survey for Asynchronous Binary Asteroids
Richard Miles: Asteroid Phase Curves: New Opportunities for Amateur Observers
Mark Sykes, David Tarico, Rose Early: Archiving Lightcurve Data in the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS)
Ron Bissinger: Using a Distributed Observer Network to Characterize Transit Light Curves of Exoplanet TrES-1B
Jerrold Foote: The Center for Backyard Astrophysics: Theory and Practice
Mark Whorton: Solar Sail Orbit Determination from Ground Observations: A Proposed Professional – Amateur Collaboration
Eric Sturm: An Experiment in Relating CCD Differential Photometric Precision to Vary Degrees of Image Focus
Michael Koppelman: Uncertainty Analysis in Photometric Observations
Bob Buchheim: The Magnitude and Constancy of Second-Order Extinction at a Low-Altitude Observatory Site
John Menke: Asteroid Photometry: Tricky Business
Valérie Desnoux and Christian Buil: Spectroscopic Monitoring of BE Type Stars
Thomas Kaye and Michael Schwartz: Implementation of a Fully Automated Fiber Spectrograph
Alan Harris: Some Suggestions for Writing Up Asteroid Lightcurve Observations for Publication
Lance Benner: Recent Arecibo and Goldstone Radar Imaging of Near-Earth Asteroids
Edward Bowell: Lowell Observatory’s Discovery Channel Telescope
Arne Henden: AAVSO and SAS, a Marriage Made in Heaven
Alan Harris, Brian Warner, Walt Cooney and Petr Parvec