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 UBVRCIC 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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LHO actively supports the IAU Task Force
for the Preservation and Digitization of Photographic Plates
(PDPP).
The Task Force is sponsored by IAU Commission 5, Astronomical Data.
LHO proudly hosts the PDPP web site, which also contains links to PDPP-related sites.
Please click here to go to the PDPP web site.


This weather forecast for the Lizard Hollow Observatory is provided by the Canadian Meteorological Centre.  Atila Danko maintains the web site, and Allan Rahill and colleagues at the CMC prepare the forecasts.



Thom Gandet, Director

Lizard Hollow Observatory
P.O. Box 89175
Tucson, AZ 85752-9175




This web site was last updated on February 10, 2010.