2012 Symposium Videos

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Please note: The Day 1 videos are of lesser quality due to technical problems. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Day 1
Opening Remarks

16 minutes

Bill Goff
Photometry of Hubble's First M31 Cepheid

18 minutes

Joe Patterson
The Tortured Accretion Disk of BK Lyn

14 minutes

Bruce Gary (Jerry Foote, Presenter)
Photometric Monitoring of YY Gem

15 minutes

Deidre Hunter
The Lowell Amateur Research Initiative

22 minutes

Brian Cudnik
Lunar Meteor Impacts
17minutes

Maurice Clark
Shape Modeling of Three Asteroids
12 minutes

Eduardo Alvarez (Robert Buchheim, presenter)
Diurnal parallax determination of asteroids
14 minutes

Alan W. Harris
On the Maximum Amplitude of Harmonics of an Asteroid Lightcurve

13 minutes

David Boyd
PV Cep and Gyulbudaghian's Variable Nebula
17 minutes

David Turner
Why Visual Observations of Mu Cep are Important
19 minutes

Josch Hambsch
Remote Observations of Variable Stars
19 minutes

Enrique de Miguel
ER Uma: A Dwarf Nova with Surprises
20 minutes

Tim Puckett
Supernova Searching
15 minutes

Jeff Hopkins
Small Telescope Spectroscopy of epsilon Aur
18 minutes

Day 2
John Menke
Observations Using a Medium-resolution Home-built Fast Spectroscope
16 minutes

Stan Gordenski
High-resolution Spectroscopy for the Amateur
17 minutes

John Beaver
Extremely Low-cost Point-source Spectrometry (ELCPS)
22 minutes

Doug Walker (and Students)
Low-resolution Spectroscopy of the Eclipsing Binary Star Algol
13 minutes

Kevin B. Alton
A Fresh Look at the Algol-like Eclipsing Binary AO Ser
21 minutes

Eric Crane
The Light at Night Mapping Project
20 minutes

Russ Genet
CCD Double Star Observations
20 minutes

Wayne Green
Imaging Pipeline Processing using Python plus PyRAF
18 minutes

Gary Vander Haagen
High Speed Photometry
20 minutes

Richard Stanton
Photon Counting - One More Time
20 minutes

Tom Kaye
Tracking Bolides, 3D Visualization and Data
16 minutes

John E. Hoot
DSLR and CCD Occultation Methods
20 minutes

Lee Snyder
Closing Remarks
2 minutes