Session 87. Ground-Based Observatories and Techniques

Display, Friday, January 14, 2000, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

87.01 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectrographs

A. Uomoto (JHU), S. Smee (U Md), C. Rockosi (U Chicago), S. Burles (U Chicago), A. Pope (JHU), S. Friedman (JHU), J. Brinkmann (Apache Point), J. Gunn (Princeton), R. Nichol (Carnegie Mellon), SDSS Collaboration

87.02 Performance of the SDSS Spectrographs

S. Burles (U Chicago), A. Pope, A. Uomoto (Johns Hopkins), R. Nichol (Carnegie Mellon), A. Merrelli (Caltech), J. Brinkmann (APO), F. Castander (Toulouse), D. Schlegel (Princeton), SDSS Collaboration

87.03 The University of the Virgin Islands Observatory: Refurbishment and Future Plans

D.M. Drost (Univ. Virgin Islands), J.E. Neff (College of Charleston)

87.04 The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute

J. D. Cline (PARI), M. W. Castelaz (PARI/East Tenn. St. Univ.), C. S. Osborne, J. Powers (PARI)

87.05 Using XML and Java for Astronomical Instrument Control

L. Koons (AppNet, Inc.), T. Ames (NASA/GSFC), R. Evans (U. of Chicago, Yerkes Observatory), C. Warsaw, K. Sall (AppNet)

87.06 The First Year of Operations of the YALO Consortium

C. D. Bailyn (Dept. of Astronomy, Yale University), D. Depoy (Dept. of Astronomy, Ohio State University), R. Agostinho (Observatorio Astronomico de Lisboa), R. Mendez, J. Espinoza, D. Gonzalez (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory)

87.07 SOAR Telescope Progress Report

T. Sebring, G. Cecil, V. Krabbendam (SOAR Project, NOAO)

87.08 Fleet Astronomy

D. I. Klebe (Colorado College), Colorado College Student Astronomy Instrument Team, Pikes Peak Observatory Team

87.09 Optimal Slit Size Study for the NOAO Next Generation Optical Spectrograph

R.J. Parks (North Park University), S.C. Barden (National Optical Astronomy Observatories)

87.10 Beam Shape Effects on Grating Spectrometer Resolution

E. F. Erickson (NASA Ames Research Center), D. Rabanus (DLR-WP, Berlin)

87.11 Knowing the Error of Your Flat

R.P. Boyle (Vatican Obs.), F. Smriglio, A. Dasgupta (U. Roma), A. Kaslauskas, V. Straizys (ITPA, Vilnius), A.G.D. Philip (ISO/Union College)

87.12 Phase Referenced Stellar Interferometry at PTI

B. F. Lane (Caltech), M. M. Colavita (JPL)

87.13 The Super Huge Interferometric Telescope: A New Paradigm In Optical Interferometry

G. Rudnick, J.J. Charfman, J. Bailin, C. Drouet d'Aubigny, C. Gottbrath, C. Groppi, M.A. Kenworthy, C. Kulesa, A. Leistra, E.E. Mamajek, C.A. Meakin, J.A. Monkiewicz, B. P. Oppenheimer, P.A. Young (Steward Obs), K. Knierman (Penn State)

87.14 Differential Astrometry of the 61 Cygni System with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer

M. Shao (JPL), A.F. Boden (IPAC, Caltech), M.M. Colavita (JPL), B.F. Lane (Geology and Planetary Sciences, Caltech), P.R. Lawson (JPL), PTI Collaboration

87.15 The First Light of the World's First Silicon Grisms

J. Ge, D. Ciarlo, P. Kuzmenko, B. Macintosh, C. Alcock, K. Cook, D. Gavel, C. Max (LLNL), J. Lloyd, J. Graham, M. Liu (UCB), S. Severson (UCSC)

87.16 TNTCAM MARK II: First light Mid-IR Images

R.E. Stencel, D. Theil (Univ.Denver Observatories), D. Klebe (Colorado College)