CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 43, No.: 3, year: 2014

Author(s): Iliev, I.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 169-173.
Date: 3/2014
Title: What astronomy with meter-class telescopes? Sharing experience with the next-door observatory
Keyword(s): telescopes, instrumentation, methods, techniques
Pages: 169 -- 173

Abstract: When asking what astronomical observations are most relevant to meter-class telescopes we will get a lot of answers - usually as many as astronomers have been interviewed. The aim of our review is to give some useful hints having observational practices and scientific projects carried out at the Rozhen National Observatory as examples. We discuss in brief the topics concerning observations of comets and asteroids - observed both photometrically and positionally, exo-planets - newly found and already known transits, optical monitoring of large variety of variable stars and stellar systems on different time-scales - from short term to very long term, hunting for novae in our Galaxy and in nearby galaxies, supernovae search and monitoring, active galactic nuclei and their photometric behavior.