Variable Star Observing With the Bradford Robotic Telescope (Abstract)

Volume 40 number 1 (2012)

Richard C. S. Kinne

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; rkinne@aavso.org

Abstract

(Abstract only) The Bradford Robotic Telescope (BRT) is a collection of telescopes and other instruments located on Mount Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands; this resource is available to all for use at no cost (http://www.telescope.org/info/BRT_information). With the recent addition of Johnson BVRI filters on the BRT’s 24 square arc minute camera, this telescope has become a resource to be considered when monitoring certain stars such as LPVs. This presentation will examine the mechanics of observing with the BRT and show examples of work that has been done by the author and how those data have been reduced using VPhot.