The 2009 Proceedings of the 28th Annual Symposium of Telescope Science of the Society for Astronomical Sciences held May-19-21 at Big Bear Lake, CA is now available online. http://www.socastrosci.org/Files/SAS_Proceedings_2009.pdf (252Mb) This years symposium was a joint meeting of the Society for Astronomical Sciences (SAS) and American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). Society's main page http://www.socastrosci.org/ Table of contents Submitted Papers Aavso Long-Period Variable Section Update Kate Hutton, Mike Simonsen 1 Bl Eri: A Contact Binary System Lee Snyder 5 The Addictive Properties Of Occultations John Menke 9 High Resolution Asteroid Profile By Multi Chord Occultation Observations Scott Degenhardt 19 Lightweight Mirror Developments Russell Genet, Andrew Aurigema, Steve Badger, Mel Bartels, K. Lisa Brodhacker, Rodolfo Canestrari, Peter Chen, Mike Connelley, David Davis, Mauro Ghigo, Greg Jones, Tong Liu, Eric Mendez, Giovanni Pareschi, Terry Richardson, David Rowe, Josh Schmidt, Kiran Shah, Efrain Villasenor 27 Optimizing Opto-Mechanical Performance Using Simple Tools And Techniques Tom Krajci 35 Enhancements To The Sentinel Fireball Network Video Software Wayne Watson 43 Sloan-R' Photometry Of Comet 17p/Holmes Beyond 3.8 Au: An Observing Methodology For Short-Period Comets Far From Perihelion Richard Miles 51 Spectrashift Exoplanet Transit Search Project: 40,000 Light Curves And Counting Thomas G. Kaye, David Healy 63 Thinking Out Loud: An Optical Seti Campaign Suitable For Amateur Astronomers? James Edwards 67 The Early History Of Photometric Observations Of Asteroids Made At Table Mountain Observatory James W. Young, Alan W. Harris 77 What’s Next In Asteroid Photometry? Gary A. Vander Haagen 85 Slow Rotating Asteroids: A Long Day’s Journey Into Night Brian D. Warner 91 Extending A Spectroscopic Survey Of Main Belt Asteroids With Micro Telescopes: A Proof Of Concept Project Robert Stephens, Ralph Megna 101 Revisiting The O’connell Effect In Eclipsing Binary Systems Nicholas J. Wilsey, Matthew M. Beaky 107 Using A Web Cam Ccd To Do V Band Photometry Rev. Paul Temple 117 Intrinsic Variability Of Beta Lyrae Observed With A Digital Slr Camera Donald F. Collins, Anesh Prasai 121 An Intensive Ccd Photometry Campaign To Observe Dw Ursae Majoris David Boyd, Boris Gaensicke 129 New Observations Of Three Lyra Variables Jerry D. Horne 137 Epsilon Aurigae, 2009: The Eclipse Begins – Observing Campaign Status Robert E. Stencel, Jeffrey L. Hopkins 149 Epsilon Aurigae Hydrogen Alpha Emission Line Variation: The Horn Dance Jeffrey L. Hopkins, Robert E. Stencel 157 The 2009 Eclipse Of Ee Cephei: An Educational And Collaborative Journey John Pye, Lauren Elder, Jeff Hopkins 171 The Lightcurve Of Uz Sge Robert K. Buchheim 181 Poster Presentations Photometry Of Variable Stars Using A Lensless Schmidt Camera Jeff Horne 191 Over-Contact Binary Gr Tauri Lee Snyder 197 Data Mining Techniques Applied To The Gnat Library Archive Erin M. Craine, 201 Time Delay Integration: A Wide-Field Survey Technique Robert La Pointe, E. Hill, L. Leimer, K. Mcmillian, A. Miller, A Prindle 207