| Project Name | Primary Observer | Date Started | Estimated Duration | Project Status | Comments |
| Eclipsing Binary Star Studies | Thomas C. Smith, Russ M. Genet | March 2004 | 4 Years | Waiting for target star to rise this year | Targets this year are again GCVS V1191 Cyg and GCVS V0523 Cas |
| GNAT Variable Star Follow-up | Cuesta Students and the GNAT team | August 2006 | 2 Years | OO monitoring MG1-753840 DRO monitoring MG1-786179(15.1 V magnitude) |
New list of GNAT candidates being worked |
| Oxygen Triplet Spectroscopy of Variables (7774A) |
Ken Kissell and Thomas C. Smith | June 2006 | 2 Years | DRO is setting up the spectrograph Ken Kissell to visit Dark Ridge Observatory for initial dark-site analysis. |
SAS Conference in Big Bear and preparations for a presentation on this new campaign to be given. |
| Lightweight Advanced Aerospace material Science Alt-Az telescope | Too many to mention at this time. A special page will be created in the future to fully describe DRO's role in this aggressive project. |
July 2007 | 2 years | Telescope optical design is nearing completion, the system drive controllers
are chosen and structural design is being done by team members as well as ME and EE colleges at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. |
Visit the Alt-Az Wiki site at StarryRidge |
| Serendipitous
Flare Star observed |
Bruce Gary, Cindy Foote, Thomas C. Smith, Edwin Sheridan, and Jim Carlisle | October 15, 2007 | 10 week | Ongoing student research with Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and Cuesta community college in San Luis Obispo | During a exo-planet transit imaging session all five observers recorded not
only the exo-planet but also a surprise Flare Star in the same field of view. Results are published on the AAVSO web site at AAVSO VSX Database |
| Epsilon Aurigae 18+ years of out-of-eclipse photometry. | Dr. Robert Stencil | Q3 1987 | 18 + years Ending in Q1 2005 | Project completed with the retirement of the Phoenix-10 automated photoelectric photometer | This is a page dedicated to the research that has gone on at the Fairborn Observatory on the longes known eclipsing binary star system with 27 year period |