Optical Astronomy from the Earth and Moon

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Symposium Participants
General Purpose Optical Telescopes 3
The SDSU 2.5-m New Generation Telescope 7
Lightweight Two-Meter Production Telescopes 17
The Spectroscopic Survey Telescope: Concept and Performance 35
The SOAR Telescope 45
Adaptive Optics at Mount Wilson Observatory: Results from the 60-inch Telescope 56
Second Generation Adaptive Optics: Plans for the Mount Wilson 100-inch Telescope 68
Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics at the Multiple Mirror Telescope 77
Sodium-Layer Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lick Observatory
CCD Stellar Ensemble Time Series Photometry - Pursuing Stellar Oscillations at the Micro-mag Level 95
An Integrated Program for Automated CCD Photometry and Spectroscopy 103
Custom CCDs for Spectroscopy 108
Multiple Readout CCD Controllers 113
Deep CCD Imaging 125
Introduction to Session on Optical Spectrographs and Other Instruments 129
The Use and Benefits of Optical Fibers in Spectroscopy 130
Polarimetry by Shifting and Exposing 139
The McDonald 2.7-m Echelle Spectrometer 148
A New CCD Spectrograph for the Tillinghast Telescope 161
ATIS93 - An International Standard for Automatic Telescopes 165
Self Diagnostics of Automatic Telescopes 172
A Global Network of Automatic Telescopes 182
GONG, A Global Network of Automated Solar Telescopes 188
Remote Interactive Observing with the ARC 3.5-m Telescope 197
Stellar Photometry with a Whole-Earth Robotic Telescope 205
Automated Management and Scheduling of Remote Automatic Telescopes 216
Collaborative Networks of Independent Automatic Telescopes 234
A Search for Optical Brightness Variations of ROSAT EUV Sources 246
Facilities for Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy of Short-Period Algols 251
Ground-Based Wide-Field Direct CCD Imaging in Support of the Astro-UIT Space Shuttle Mission 255
Astrophysics from Antarctica 261
Remote Astronomy at the South Pole 263
Robotic Observatories: The Third Way 267
The Pros and Cons of Doing Ultraviolet Astronomy from the Moon 280
Lunar Transit Telescopes 283
Author Index 303
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