Session 33. Instrumentation: Ground-Based and Space-Based

Oral, Monday, January 10, 2005, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 1-3

33.01 SLGLAO: An all-sky, wide field adaptive optics system for large aperture telescopes

M. C. Britton, K. Taylor (California Institute of Technology)

33.02 PS1 - The Prototype Pan-STARRS Telescope

K. C. Chambers (Institute for Astronomy), Pan-STARRS 0

33.03 RoboNet-1.0: A Prototype Global Network of Large Robotic Telescopes

M. F. Bode (Liverpool JMU), Cardiff U. Collaboration, U. Hertfordshire Collaboration, U. Leicester Collaboration, St Andrews U. Collaboration, Queens U., Belfast Collaboration, Mullard Space Science Lab. Collaboration, U. Exeter Collaboration, U. Southampton Collaboration, U. Manchester Collaboration

33.04 Optically Scaled Ground Demonstration for an External Occulter

I. J. E. Jordan (CSC/STScI), P. Henze, G. Sauter (WASI), H. M. Hart (CSC/JHU/FUSE), P. Chen (GSFC), B. Eney (WASI), A. B. Schultz (CSC/STScI), E. Bender (WASI), M. Kochte (CSC/STScI), R. G. Lyon (GSFC), D. Fraquelli (CSC/STScI), F. Bruhweiler (IACS/CUA), C. Roelle, R. Smith, I. Slepian (WASI), Computer Sciences Corporation Collaboration, Goddard Space Flight Center Collaboration, Westminster Astronomical Society, Inc. Collaboration, Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences Collaboration

33.05 Opportunities for High Precision Photometric Measurements of Variable Stars: Kepler Guest Investigator Program

W. J. Borucki, D. G. Koch (NASA Ames Research Center), G. S. Basri (Univ. Calif., Berkeley), D. W. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), S. B. Howell (NOAO, Tucson, AZ)

33.06 ZEUS: A Submillimeter Grating Spectrometer for Exploring Distant Galaxies

S. Hailey-Dunsheath, T. Nikola, G. J. Stacey, T. Oberst, S. Parshley (Cornell University), D. J. Benford, S. H. Moseley, J. G. Staguhn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

33.07 Quadrature Phase Interferometry: a phase-sensitive rotation shearing interferometer for diffraction-limited imaging

B. Kern, P.E. Dimotakis, C. Martin, D.B. Lang, R.N. Thessin (Caltech)

33.08 MILES: A new concept for wide-field UV/optical spectroscopy for the TMT project.

K. Taylor, R.W. Weber, S. Blais-Ouellette, M.C. Britton (California Institute of Technology), D.J.A. Jones (Prime Optics, Queensland, Australia)

33.09 The Space Elevator and the Future of Space-based Astronomy

B. E. Laubscher (Los Alamos National Laboratory), B. C. Edwards (Carbon Designs, Inc.)