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Photo courtesy The Banff Centre

What people are saying about the King’s Observatory…. It may not be big but it is small!. Photo courtesy The Banff Centre. A Brief History …. A Brief History …. Built in 1993 from completely recycled materials! Split roof design with attached warm-room Fully networked and web accessible

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  1. What people are saying about the King’s Observatory… It may not be big but it is small! Photo courtesy The Banff Centre

  2. A Brief History …

  3. A Brief History … • Built in 1993 from completely recycled materials! • Split roof design with attached warm-room • Fully networked and web accessible • Used an average of 80 nights per year • To date over 9 thousand “observation-hours” • Has undergone 3 generations of telescopes/detectors • 0.20 m Newtonian • 0.30 m Newtonian • 0.36 m Schmidt-Cassegrain • Equipped for high precision photometry, spectroscopy and narrow-band imagery as well as auroral, geomagnetic studies and all-sky meteor camera • Collaborated in more than 30 professional publications in refereed journals

  4. Student Research… • How old are the stars? • Colour-magnitude diagram M37 • The Dangers of gaining mass! • Nova Cass 1993 • Supernova 2004ET • Things That Go Bump in the Night • BY Cam, DL Pegasi and AE Uma • Way Out There! • Red shift of 3C 273

  5. How old are the stars? Rob Haasdyk – senior thesis project 1992 Tyler Foster Published in Sky & Telescope magazine, May 1993.

  6. The Dangers of gaining mass! • Nova Cassiopeia 1993 • Kerry Kejiwski (UofA) • Tyler Foster (Kings)

  7. More Dangers of gaining mass! • Supernova 2004ET • Sam Zondervan, Senior Thesis project 2005

  8. Things That Go Bump in the Night • Photometry on SX Phoenicis Stars by • Shane Strydhorst(AE-UMa – Senior Thesis project 1996, poster presented at Canadian Astronomical Society Annual General Meeting, June 1996 – acknowledged in Time-Series Ensemble Photometry of SX Phoenicis Stars. II. AE Ursae Majoris.Hintz, E.; Hintz, Maureen L.; Joner, MichaelPublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v.109, p.1073-1076) • Nathan Wielenga (BL Cam – Astro 300, Fall 2009)

  9. Way Out There! • Measuring the redshift of Quasar 3C 273Matt Glenn, senior thesis project, spring 2011 Redshift z = 0.16 indicating recessional velocity of 45 000 km/s and distance 2.4 billion light years!

  10. Community Service… • School groups, cub scouts etc • King’s Astropic of the Week

  11. The Crab Nebula Ha OIII SII L

  12. Astronomy Labs (Non-science majors) …

  13. Astronomy Labs (Non-science majors) … Lunar Craters and Impact in the Solar System

  14. The Jovian System and Rotational Flattening

  15. Basic Research… • Active collaboration with many professional and advanced amateurs world-wide • CBA: Joseph Patterson, Columbia • VSNET: Taichi Kato, Kyoto University • Primary research areas: • cataclysmic variable stars • SX-Phoenicis and Dwarf Cephied Stars

  16. Some Sample Pubs…

  17. Future Directions?

  18. Thank you any questions?

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