Members
Louis J. Boyd
Director, Fairborn Observatory
Research interests: the design, construction, and operation of robotic
telescopes for automated photometry, imagaing, and spectroscopy
1988 - 2024
Geoffrey S. Burks
Research interests: RR Lyrae stars and the interstellar medium,
pulsating variable stars, astronomy education, remote learning via streaming
video courses
1998 - 2020
Joel A. Eaton
Research interests: Structure and heating of stellar chromospheres,
spotted stars, Zeta Aurigae binaries, structure of interacting binaries,
construction of 2m Automated Spectroscopic Telescope
1989 - 2009
Francis C. Fekel
Research interests: spectroscopy of binary and multiple stars,
chromospherically active stars, stellar distances, masses, and luminosities,
rotational velocities, lithium abundances/ages of late-type stars,
ultraviolet spectroscopy
1994 - 2024
Douglas S. Hall
Research interests: chromospherically active stars, binary stars, robotic
telescopes, networks of amateur photoelectric photometry observers
1988 - 2003
Gregory W. Henry
Research interests: automated astronomy with robotic telescopes,
high-precision photometry, luminosity and magnetic cycles in solar-type
stars, the search for extrasolar planets, chromospherically active stars,
pulsating variables
1988 - 2024
Matthew W. Muterspaugh
Research interests: automated astronomy, automated high-resolution
spectroscopy, extrasolar planets, stellar astrophysics, optical interferometry
2009 - 2019
Michael H. Williamson
Research interests: automated telescopes, software and control system
development for automated telescopes, data pipeline development for automated
imaging and automated spectroscopy, search for extrasolar planets
1999 - 2024
Postdocs
Askari Ghasempour
2010 - 2013
James Edward (Ted) Maxwell
2012 - 2017
Samira Rajabi
2010 - 2013