Boyce-Astro
Sharing Astronomy through Education and Research via remote technologies.
Boyce-Astro — an extension of B.R.I.E.F
Boyce-Astro is the astronomy arm of B.R.I.E.F. with addressing education, community development, and national and international research and education programs in astronomy.
Pre-Publication Option for student papers
These papers have been submitted to the Journal of DoubleSTAR™ Observations and have not been published yet at this date. Speckle interferometry observations of known binaries were performed. Both papers present a methodology for computing a revised...
Can the Hooker 100” Telescope be used in exoplanet research?
In October 2025 a BRIEF student research team made observations at Mount Wilson Observatory using its famous 100” Hooker telescope where much of astrophysics began. The pilot project’s aim was to determine if that telescope could be brought back into scientific...
Discover Radio Astronomy with BRIEF
Boyce-Astro is excited to introduce a new asynchronous online course that lets students explore the radio universe using real observations from the Boyce-Astro Radio Telescope (BART) at Tierra del Sol. Students will learn how radio telescopes detect and process...
Fall 2026 Course Schedule
This fall, Boyce-Astro is offering five courses designed to give students hands-on experience with real astronomy, real data, and real research. You can learn more about each course in the Seminars section of our website. If a course interests you, add your name to...
A wealth of astrometry papers
Richard Jaworski of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia has been a leader in our DoubleSTARS™ and Speckling Binaries program for two years – as a student, mentor, and instructor. Aside from his direction and advice he has shared with our students, he...
BEAR 2026: An Integrated Learning Experience Starts Soon
The BEAR program integrates with the Binary Speckle course into a two-day, on-site experience at Mount Wilson Observatory.
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IntroStars™ – Signup
IntroSTARS is our free self-paced online course to introduce you to astronomy and astrophysics. It’s our prerequisite for our other seminars.
Alumni Roster
Alumni Papers
To view your paper please go to Student Publications
Advanced Research Programs
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AAVSO Areas of Interest
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) serves as a dedicated research and outreach organization that allows both professionals and amateurs contribute to the vast and dynamic field of variable star research in countless unique ways.
Understanding the 6th Orbital Catalog
The 6th orbital catalog serves as a hub for proposed orbital solutions, while the published Sixth Catalog contains only orbits of the highest grade.
How to Format Data from the USNO
This video goes over key points to the email from the USNO, saving the attachments, the historical data raw file, and editing and formatting in Word.
Provide Education & Opportunities in Science
The Boyce Research Initiatives and Education Foundation (BRIEF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation that was founded in 2013 with this stated mission:
“The specific public, charitable, scientific and educational purposes of this corporation are to provide scientific and technical research opportunities to enhance the educational experience of students and to introduce them to the scientific and technical communities.”
BRIEF conducts seminars, research programs, workshops and conferences to accomplish its mission. BRIEF provides robotic observatories, information systems, and instructional support materials to instructors and students to enable the education through research experience. Our students who range from 7th grade to 70 are encouraged to become scientists through publication of their own research.
Your donations solely support our student scholarships and student STEM research programs. BRIEF (aka Boyce-Astro) is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes as a 501 (c) (3) corporation.
All donations are welcome.