Lizard Hollow Observatory
Tucson, AZ USA

Thomas L. Gandet, Director

Theodore W. Fusby, Engineering Consultant

LHO's telescope is the 0.28-m Beardsley Memorial SCT.  It was equipped
with an SBIG ST7-E CCD camera, which was used from 2001 until 2009 for UBVR_CI_C photometry.

In late 2009, the camera was decommissioned, and the telescope itself was temporarily decommissioned.
Plans are to recommission the telescope in 2010, equipped with a filar micrometer
for observational work on visual binary stars.  Many other programs of the Observatory will continue.

Research interests at LHO are in early-type spectroscopic and eclipsing binary stars, visual multiple stars,
poorly-studied variable stars, and Be and Be-like stars.
We also participate in the Spectral Classification Project at PARI  (Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute).


Collaborative projects have been ongoing, since 2006, with astronomers at the
Tien-Shan Observatory in Kazakhstan and at the US Naval Observatory/Flagstaff Station.
LHO research programs have made use of  the 0.9-m coudé feed spectrograph
 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory,
the 0.81-m RCT telescope at Tenagra Observatories, and the
0.32-m telescope at the Sonoita Research Observatory .

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