2. INSTRUMENTATION AT THE GETTYSBURG OBSERVATORY….And what to do with it. American Astronomical Society 205 th meeting, San Diego, Jan 13, 2005

3. Gettysburg College Observatory view from the southeast

4. The Gettysburg 16” Reflector F/11 0.4 m Mfr. Ealing, 1968 Upgrade by ACE, Tucson, 1996 Camera: Photometrics 350; TE Cooled; High Speed readout Chip: SiTE 003B 1024 x 1024 pixels ACE 2-wheel filter box; 16 slots STV-Offset Guider

5. Camera and Filter Box

6. Computer Control from Remote Warm Room (software and Hardware by ACE)

7. Offset Guider and Tube Cooling

8. SBIG STV Automatic Guider

9. Auxiliary Chilled Water Circulator for CCD

10. Dome Control and Dome Cooling

11. Warm Room Controls and Hardware

12. Astronomer’s View of the Controls Autoguider Telescope ControlCCD control Autoguider Display Sidereal Time Universal Time DVD VHS Stereo/FM

13. Guider and CCD controls

14. CCD and Telescope Controls

15. The ACE Telescope Control Screen

16. Observatory Monitors and Sidereal Timebase

17. Filter Controller (serial data input)

18. Observatory Power Control (manual and computer controlled)

19. Observing Aids: Phase predictor for eclipsing Binary Stars

20. Automatic Image Data Logging

21. OBSERVING PROJECTS FACULTY-STUDENT RESEARCH Astrometry of critical list asteroids Photometry of Eclipsing Binary Stars --- collaboration with G. Torres, et al, CFA Target of Opportunity Light curves of bright supernova Transits of Extrasolar Planets ADVANCED PHYSICS LAB EXERCISES CCD photometry of short period variables (δ Scuti, SX Phe) Astrometry of bright asteroids

22. Photometry of Eclipsing Binaries and Bright Supernovas

23. Extrasolar Planet Photometry

24. The Gettysburg Asteroid Patrol: Search Strategy

25. Software to Blink and Measure Asteroids

26. The Gettysburg Asteroid Patrol T-Shirt Logo

27. A wider angle view of the Gettysburg College Observatory

28. October, 2004: the bad news Clark Field opens…..