Since December 2005 the program on the OATo telescope has changed. The CCD has been upgraded to a 2048x2048 Loral instrument and the operation of the telescope is now fully robotic. The objects being studied in the new program fall into three main groups: GSC2 discovered Halo White Dwarfs; bright L and T dwarfs; and nearby M dwarfs with possible companions. The bright L and T dwarfs compliment programs on larger telescopes allowing us to cover a large apparent magnitude range. On the OATo telescope we plan to observe these objects in the z band. Our ultimate goal is to have distances determined in a consistant way for examples of objects from M-Dwarf stars to giant jupiter like planets, the range shown schematically in the below diagram.

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