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Wes Lockwood
Lowell Observatory
1400 W. Mars Hill Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001-4499
(928) 233-3226 direct
(928) 774-3358 x 226 switchboard
(928) 774-6296 fax
e-mail: gwl[at]lowell[dot]edu
Publications and biography
My bibliography (pdf)
Curriculum vitae (pdf)
The Solar-Stellar Spectrograph at Lowell Observatory, J.C. Hall & G.W. Lockwood
Photometric variability of Titan, 1972-2006
Photometric variability of Uranus and Neptune, 1972-2007
The 21-inch telescope at Lowell Observatory
Lowell's 21-inch telescope has been very busy since 1973. Here's how we used it:
2,713 Nights and Counting (article from The Lowell Observer, Fall 2004, pdf)
A history of the 21-inch telescope (pdf)
Bibliography for the 21-inch telescope, 1954-2006 (pdf)
Dark Skies
Dark skies are valuable to everyone with an interest in astronomy. In Flagstaff,
we take this seriously:
"Flagstaff: Dark skies tonight" (article from The Lowell Observer, Fall 2002, pdf)
City of Flagstaff lighting code
Coconino County lighting code
International Dark-Sky Association
NAU oral history interview on dark skies
Solar Variability
How the Sun varies and whether this afffects climate has been an enduring theme at Lowell Observatory for 50 years. The question remains controversial today. Our studies never detected solar variability, which we know now to be impossibly small to be detected by ground-based techniques, but the ongoing effort here has led to valuable measurements of planetary and stellar brightness variations. The latest results are found in my bibliography, but here are some earlier milestones.
"Gauging the Sun" -- Lowell Observer 2000 (pdf)
"Does the Sun affect Earth's climate?" -- Lowell Observer, Spring 1998 (pdf)
"The Sun as a variable star. II. Photometric observations of Uranus, Neptune, and standard stars in the years 1953-1961" K. Serkowski, Lowell Observatory Bulletin 116 (1961) (pdf)
"The Sun as a variable star. III. Photometric observations of Uranus, Neptune, and F and G type stars." M. Jerzykiewicz and K. Serkowski, Lowell Observatory Bulletin 137 (1966) (pdf)
"Whither the Sun" (chapter from The Explorers of Mars Hill, W. L. Putnam) (pdf)