DAILY SCHEDULE

The afternoon sessions of Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be in the Giclas Lecture Hall in the Steele Visitor Center at Lowell Observatory.

Friday, October 3rd

Morning: free time
Afternoon, starting at 1pm: Fundamentals, Equipment & Techniques
    • Elliott Horch - Basic Theory of Speckle Imaging
    • Jimmy Ray - Speckle and Automation Using Amateur Class Telescopes, Inexpensive CMOS Cameras and Off the Shelf Components
    • Bill Hartkopf via Russ Genet - So What is Speckle Interferometry Good For, Anyway?
    • Gerard van Belle - Introduction to Amplitude Interferometry
Evening: at Lowell Observatory Rotunda patio
All portable equipment set-ups are welcome

Saturday, October 4th

Morning: free time
Afternoon, starting at 1pm: Science Analysis & Results
    • Russ Genet - Speckle Interferometry of Close Binary Stars
    • Frank Smith - Binary Star Orbits for Amateurs
    • Jimmy Davidson - Photometric Analysis of Binary Stars Using Speckle Imaging (and associated journal article)
Late Afternoon: a tour of Lowell Observatory's Anderson Mesa facilities
Evening: at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope
Observing at Happy Jack with the DSSI speckle camera on the 4.3-m telescope

Sunday, October 5th

Morning: free time
Afternoon, starting at 1pm: Results & Data Reduction
    • Dave Rowe - ASD Simulation and Speckle Reduction
    • Richard Harshaw - The Fascinating World of The Short Arc Binaries
    • Elliott Horch - DSSI Data Reduction & Examples
    • Keith Knox - Measuring Close Binary Stars with Speckle Interferometry
    • Gary Cole - The Starphysics Observatory
    • Data Reduction Packages: REDUC, ASD,
Evening: Banquet at Ewa's Thai

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