Robotic Observatories Book

	Editor's introduction
	A review of European developments in automated and robotic telescopes for photometry	3
	A progress report on the Sutherland automatic telescope	11
	Developments in automatising a Celestron-based APT	15
	The development of a robotic telescope system at Bradford	21
	A project for an automated telescope in Argentina	27
	The Fastnet Observatory CCD APT system	35
	The quest for precision robotic photometry	41
	The law of starspot lifetimes	49
	On-going studies of R CrB and UU Her stars with robotic telescopes	59
	Corner stars for calibration of the Sky Survey fields - results from a pilot programme	63
	The automatic 60-cm telescope of the Belogradchik Observatory - first results	69
	Some GNAT issues	77
	A complementary network to GNAT: An Arabian and French project for 3T1M automated photometric stations	85
	Development of an academic network for astronomical use in Bulgaria	89
	Facilities for the co-ordination of multi-site and multi-wavelength observing campaigns	95
	Monitoring of active galactic nuclei	101
	The concept of an APT network as a driver for a metrological reform in astronomical photometry	107
	How accurate are photometric standards?	113
	Towards robotic IR observatories: improved IR passbands	117
	Liquid mirror telescopes	125
	Parallelism in telescope and instrument control systems	131
	Editor's summary	139
	Appendix: List of Participants in the Kilkenny Workshop	147
	Subject index	151