Automated telescopes, acquisition and analysis of the light curves of eclipsing binary stars, imaging and surface photometry of galaxies and comets, asteroid photometry and astrometry, computer modeling of physical systems.

External Support:

Multi-Purpose Telescope for Undergraduate Education, J. Kern (PI), Z. Ninkov, R. Easton, and A. Young, NSF-ILI, $65,685, 1992.

Internal Support:

Renovation of Astronomy House, J. Kern and R. Easton, RIT COS $11,000, 1997.

Astronomy House - Use of this RIT owned building was granted for activities related to the observatory. J. Kern and R. Easton, 1996.

Site development and construction of the RIT Observatory, J. Kern, Z. Ninkov, R. Easton, and A. Young, RIT, $52,000, 1992.

Multi-Purpose Telescope for Undergraduate Education, J. Kern (PI), Z. Ninkov, R. Easton, and A. Young, $65,685 RIT matching funds for NSF-ILI, 1992.

Observations Using Ground- and Space-based Robotic Observatories, J. Kern, RIT COS Project Initiation Grant, 1990.