BSM

Here are some photos taken by Gary Walker showing the setup of BSM-Berry on the roof of AAVSO HQ. (click on each photo for a larger version)

These are his comments:

Bright Star Monitor - Berry (BSM Berry)

(The text below was adapted from an article in the AAVSO Inner Sanctums newsletter, January 2011)

Bright Star Monitor - New Mexico (BSM NM)

This page is under construction!

Bright Star Monitor - Hamren (BSM Hamren)

This page is under construction!

Bright Star Monitor - Argentina (BSM AR)

Bright Star Monitor South (BSM S)

Site
Latitude and longitude: 38d 14'41"S 145d 57' 36"E
Elevation: 138m
Site manager: Peter Nelson
Internet access: Limited
Weather statistics: About 35%
Typical good seasons: Summer-Autumn

The Bright Star Monitor stations are a subset of the AAVSOnet. They offer members an opportunity to do CCD multi-filter observing of stars from 2.0 to 13.6 in Vmag with robotically controlled telescopes that are located from New Hampshire to Australia.  Images are automatically calibrated and are provided to the user for analysis.  They can also be directly forwarded to a VPHOT account. 

BSM HISTORY

When epsilon Aurigae became an interesting target last year, it was pretty obvious that none of the telescopes that the AAVSO had access to was capable of obtaining photometry on such a bright object.