Session 23. Stars and Observing Them

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, May 30, 2005, 102 B

23.01 Keys To Protecting Your Observing Site

D.A. Hanslep, D.L. Crawford (International Dark-Sky Association)

23.02 The W Ursae Majoris Binary V781 Tauri: A Close Binary in Shallow Contact

E.F. Milone (U Calgary), J Kallrath (U Florida, BASF), R.A. Breinhorst (U Bonn), A. Schnell (U Wien), A. Purgathofer (U. Wien, (now deceased))

23.03 The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory's Wide Field Variable Star Search Program

M. D. Williams, E. F. Milone (RAO, U Calgary)

23.04 Evolutionary Synthesis Models with Stellar Rotation for Young Populations

G. A. Vazquez, C. Leitherer (STScI), Geneva Group Collaboration

23.05 Eclipses and orbital variations in binary pulsar PSR J0737-3039

M. Lyutikov (UBC)

23.06 The Effect of Stellar Meridional Motions on Extrasolar Planet Detection

J.M. Beckers (University of Chicago)