Lizard Hollow Observatory
Tucson, AZ USA

Thomas L. Gandet, Director

Theodore W. Fusby, Engineering Consultant

Research interests at LHO are in binary and multiple stars, poorly-studied variable stars,
Be and Be-like stars, and in early-type spectroscopic binaries.

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 donated to the AAVSO, when the research at
the Observatory was devoted entirely to micrometric measurements of visual binary stars, orbit
calculations of spectroscopic and eclipsing binary stars, and to participation in the spectral
classification project, SCOPE, operated at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in North Carolina.

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 .