Exoplorer™ EW Seminar - Spring 2025

Boyce-Astro’s 2025 Annual Calendar for Courses and Seminars

Head over to the newly released Boyce-Astro’s annual calendar for 2025 and learn more about the available courses and seminars!Click here to learn moreThe universe is full of mysteries—let’s explore them together!

Join Boyce-Astro’s DoubleSTARS™ Research Seminar!

Are you ready to learn astronomy? Boyce-Astro’s DoubleSTARS™ research seminar starts on September 5, offering a unique chance to explore double star systems, run your own observations, and contribute to real scientific research with your published results.To qualify...

Boyce-Astro’s 2024 Research Calendar: Two Fall Seminars

Boyce-Astro’s 2024 research calendar is here, featuring two important seminars this fall!Explore double star systems and contribute to real research in our DoubleSTARS™ research seminar, kicking off on September 5. Learn morePython has become the language of...

Fall Python Course – Sign Up Now

Our Python for Astronomy short (5-week) course will start soon. It is time to sign up now. The flyer is here and you can go to our Seminars section for more information. Register at our Python for Astronomy page or click here for the flyer.

Boyce-Astro Exoplorer and Telescope Operator training begins in January 2023

The Exoplorer seminar in photometry of exoplanet transits starts in mid-January of 2023. Students must complete the IntroSTARS course and preferably DoubleSTARS as well. Emphasis is on targeting and observing exoplanets with one of BRIEF’s observatories and reducing...

BRIEF announces its 2023 offerings

BRIEF will continue its three-part online student research seminar program in 2023. The three online seminars in astrometry, photometry, and python are the core of the BRIEF program which began with DoubleSTARS in 2015. Online asynchronous tutorials and self-paced...

BRIEF’s Executive Director elected to the AAVSO Board

In November 2022 Pat Boyce was elected to a three-year term on the Board of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). He founded BRIEF, a non-profit, in 2013 to introduce students to the scientific community through research in astronomy. He and his...

BRIEF to support SDSU on new NSF grant

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year grant to the San Diego State University (SDSU) Astronomy Department in September 2022. The grant, “Comprehensive Analysis of Period Changes in Eclipsing Binaries as a Probe of Stellar Astrophysics” will use...

A new student research tradition

In June 2022 BRIEF joined InStAR to conduct a two-day student research experience at Mt. Wilson Observatory (MWO). Twenty Boyce-Astro students performed speckle interferometry observations of binary stars using MWO’s 60” telescope, the world’s largest just over a...

BRIEF receives new observatory from the Downing Family Operating Foundation.

The Downing Family Operating Foundation generously donated a PlaneWave CDK17 research grade telescope to BRIEF in May 2022. Located at Sierra Remote Observatory (SRO), the telescope, mounted on a PlaneWave L-500 mount and equipped with a QHY600 camera, will serve as a...

Exoplorer™ EW Seminar – Spring 2025

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