Volume 41 number 2 (2013)
(Abstract only) Variable star research has been my main work from my Ph.D. dissertation work through three decades of research at our Appalachian State University Dark Sky Observatory. I will present a review of that work and the evolution of technology that took me from in situ observing with a photometer in a cold dome to remote and automatic CCD observing today. The research targets included RS CVn stars, apsidal motion eclipsing binaries, Trojan planets, and exoplanets in binaries.