The MEYER-WOMBLE OBSERVATORY UPGRADES PROGRAM:

Objectives:
(1) telescope performance upgrades;
(2) instrumentation performance upgrades;
(3) remote operations upgrades to expand use during more of the year, and
(4) outreach enhancements.

Partners in the upgrades efforts:
Software Bisque and others.

Programs of the past few summer seasons:

2012 - following discovery of winter 2011/2012 dome destruction, a review of all systems is underway - including a new dome, revised telescope control systems, operational modes and science and academic objectives.

2011 - install outdoor webcam* & upgrade GPS water vapor monitor**; Phys2063 class***                                                                               [*dark after sunset]    [**telemetry lost, winter 2011/12]  [***Aug]

2010 - summer daytime monitoring of the epsilon Aurigae eclipse in J&H photometric bands

2009 - summer daytime monitoring of the epsilon Aurigae eclipse in J&H photometric bands

2008 - grad student training in spectroscopy with LHIRES & ST10.

2007 - see http://mysite.du.edu/~rstencel/MtEvans/Upgrades2007.pdf .

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