Monthly report for January 1997 by Christian A. Hummel:

Paper "The radio jet of quasar 0153+744" was finally accepted by A&A, 
corresponding files were sent to the journal, and a camera-ready version
prepared and sent to Bonn for manufacture of preprints.

Some work on CONSTRICTOR (metrology packets new format). Front-to-end
test of CONSTRICTOR-CHAMELEON-AMOEBA with simulated Poisson-noise type
data. Led to bug fix in AMOEBA. Some work on CHAMELEON to improve user
friendliness. Downloaded limb-darkening tables from Van Hamme (UFlorida)
and tested integrations for various band passes. To be implemented in
AMOEBA.

Participation in IAU Symposium 189, held in Sydney. Presentation of poster
on "Imaging and modeling of spectroscopic binaries with long baseline
interferometers". 3-page contribution "Images of Mizar A" prepared and
submitted.

Reduced several january nights of data from NPOI, some on stars, some
APD tests.