This report, the Department's nineteenth, covers the period September 1994 through August 1995. Reports from other years are also available. A total of 462 students took Descriptive Astronomy , Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Interstellar Travel , Frontiers in Astronomy , Cosmology , and Advanced Observational Astronomy . The Department awarded 5 B.A. degrees and 5 B.S. degrees. There were 42 physics majors in Spring 1995.
Newtonian telescope is computer-controlled.
The system points reliably to within 1-2 arcminutes on the sky. Reliable photometry is feasible for objects as faint as 16th magnitude. Guest observer observations to obtain additional data on this object were approved for the ASCA, OSSE and XTE experiments. Students Dan Hale, Siana Hurwitt and Susan Webster did a special studies project with Professor Cominsky to learn about this type of research. Tenn continued researching and writing a series of articles on the recipients of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal.