The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Small Telescopes in the New Millennium....Pages 1-5
The Decade Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics....Pages 7-11
Community Perceptions of the Relative Worth of Large and Small Telescopes....Pages 13-19
Funding of the Essential Synergy Between Small and Large Telescopes....Pages 21-39
Small Telescopes: A Reporter’s Perspective....Pages 41-48
Scientific Impact of Small Telescopes....Pages 49-53
The Productivity of Ground-Based Optical Telescopes of Various Apertures....Pages 55-64
The Future Operation of European Medium-Sized Telescopes: The Situation at Calar Alto Observatory....Pages 65-83
The Roles of Small Telescopes in a Virtual Observatory Environment....Pages 85-95
Developing a Protocol and Implementing a Network for Ubiquitous Use of Telescopes over the Internet: Remote Telescope Mark-up Language — RTML....Pages 97-112
Small Telescopes in Astronomy Education....Pages 113-123
Big Glass on a Silicon Chip: The CLEA Project in the 21 st Century....Pages 125-138
The International Small Telescope Cooperative (ISTeC)....Pages 139-145
Development, Construction and Plans for Small Telescopes in Japan....Pages 147-165
Simultaneous and Parallel Use of Small Telescopes for Astronomical Photometry....Pages 167-173
International Aspects Between Central Europe and Central Asia....Pages 175-187
GNAT—A Global Network of Small Astronomical Telescopes....Pages 189-200
The International Perspective: From Small Astronomical Telescopes to the World Space Observatory....Pages 201-225
Important Roles of Small Telescopes in Space....Pages 227-237
Telescope Performance: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 239-256
The Potential of CCD-Based Amateur Spectroscopy....Pages 257-269
Small Radio Telescopes....Pages 271-285
Charting the Future of Small Telescopes....Pages 287-300
Small is as Small Does....Pages 301-322
The Future of Small, Inexpensive, Continuously Operating, Wide Field Cameras....Pages 323-335
The All Sky Automated Survey....Pages 337-347
The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope....Pages 349-361
Astrometric Projects at the Bordeaux CCD Meridian Circle....Pages 363-366
The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) Project and Beyond....Pages 367-374
The Future of Automated Telescopes and the Bradford Robotic Telescopes....Pages 375-390
The Liverpool and Faulkes Telescopes....Pages 391-410
The Dutch Open Telescope....Pages 411-420
Building a Global Education and Science System Basec on Modest-Aperture Telescopes: The Hands-On Universe System....Pages 421-426
The OTHER Keck Observatories....Pages 427-436
The Sun from Big Bear....Pages 437-454
The Four-College Consortium and the Future of APT’s....Pages 455-479
The National Undergraduate Research Observatory....Pages 481-487
Advantages of Automated Observing with Small Telescopes....Pages 489-507
Astronomy Back East: The Future of the University Telescope....Pages 509-518
Research in a Virtual Astronomy Department....Pages 519-530
The CHARA VisiblelIR Array on Mt. Wilson....Pages 531-554
A Dedicated 1-Meter Telescope for High Precision Astrometric Sky Mapping of Faint Stars....Pages 555-567
AST/RO....Pages 569-584
The APO 3.5-m Remote Observing Program— Present and Future....Pages 585-597
Scientific Priorities and Scheduling of the UK Infrared Telescope in the Eight-Meter Era....Pages 599-608
Small Radio Interferometer Arrays in Solar Physics....Pages 609-622
The Educational Role of Small Telescopes in Radio Astronomy....Pages 623-636
Reflections on Past and Future Photometric Calibration Situations and the Role of Small Telescopes....Pages 637-645
Science of the Inner Planets From Small Ground-Based Telescopes....Pages 647-671
Planetary Astronomy: Recent Advances and Future Discoveries With Small Aperture Telescopes....Pages 673-691
Science With Very Small Telescopes (< 2.4 meters): The NASA Deep Impact Mission’s Small Telescope Science Program....Pages 693-711
Geographical Representation of Large and Small Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Discoveries and Observations....Pages 713-728
Finding High Priority Projects for Stellar Physics Through Spectroscopy....Pages 729-745
The NStars Project and Small Telescopes....Pages 747-757
Speckle Interferometry with Small Telescopes....Pages 759-774
“Visual” Binaries in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 775-789
Imaging Exoplanets....Pages 791-807
The Detection of Extrasolar Planets via the Transit Method....Pages 809-823
Big Planets with Small Telescopes....Pages 825-841
Variable Star Research with Small Telescopes....Pages 843-859
Magnetic Activity and the Solar-Stellar Connection....Pages 861-879
The Whole Earth Telescope: International Adventures in Asteroseisomology....Pages 881-892
WIYN Open Cluster Study: The Next Generation....Pages 893-908
Automated Spectral Surveys of Clusters and Field Star....Pages 909-916
Monitoring Extremely Young Clusters: Past, Present and Future....Pages 917-930
Searches for Galactic Halo Remnants....Pages 931-938
Gravitational Microlensing....Pages 939-949
Dynamics, Star Formation and Chemical Evolution in the Nearby Galaxies from Studies of Their Stellar Systems....Pages 951-965
The Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System....Pages 967-978
The Importance of Small Telescopes to Cosmological Research....Pages 979-990
Back Matter....Pages 991-1031