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Annual: 31
Sustaining: 3
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Members from US: 24
Members from Abroad: 10
(from 8 countries)
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TOTAL New Members: 34
New Member SummaryOctober 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006
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All Current AAVSO Members by Type
Total Members: 1,161
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AAVSO Members by Country
in 44 Countries
1,161 Total
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Membership Status ChangesOctober 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006
Annual to Sustaining: 0
Sustaining to Annual: 8
Resigned from Membership: 12
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Deceased Members and Friends
William B. Whiddon - San Pedro, CA Longtime AAVSO Member, founding member of SBAS - The South Bay
Astronomical Society (Redondo Beach, CA). William passed away in October of 2005 due to complications from acute leukemia. He taught astronomy labs at the North Texas observatory before joining TRW (later acquired by Northrop Grumman Space Technology). He earned a graduate certificate in astronautical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and for most of his career worked as a systems engineer on satellite programs. At the time of his death he was chief engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope. With his wife, Nina Whiddon, he photographed total solar eclipses throughout the world, including the 2003 eclipse over Antarctica. They returned to Antarctica in 2005 with a meteorite search team and traveled to the South Pole. One of Whiddon’s photographs of Comet Hale-Bopp appears in Robert Burnham’s book Great Comets.
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April 08 2005 TSE
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Fall 2006 Meeting
Place: Newton, MA
Date: October 27-28, 2006
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Upcoming Meetings
Spring 2007: Calgary, AB (RASC) Fall 2007: MMOSpring 2008: UK (BAA)Spring 2011: Boston (AAS)
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AAVSO Semiannual ReportOctober 2005 - March 2006
Arne Henden
May 6, 2006
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Highlights - 1
Addition of Lennard Dahlmark’s 19K observations to the ID
Alpha version of the MySQL relational database version of the ID
Beta version of the ACP Beta version of VSX Beta version of blue & gold
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Highlights - 2
Responded to 891 requests for AAVSO data
Processed PEP data and merged portions with ID
Created DVDs of HEA3 Formed the E/PO committee More visual observing manual
translations
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Highlights - 3
Initiated many observing campaigns Published 1 issue of the JAAVSO Published newsletters, eyepiece views,
CCD views, alert notices, solar bulletins, etc.
Submitted several papers containing AAVSO data
Visit to BAA/VSS
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The most popular day for downloading charts: Saturday
The most popular hour for downloading charts: 12pm EST
About 51,724 Total Charts
The 5 most popular stars (in order):
TU Cas, X And, U Ori, Omi Cet, Delta Cep
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Charts DownloadedOctober 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006
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Light Curve Generator
RS Oph, SS Cyg, NSV 21, TU Cas, R Leo
Curves plotted from Oct 05 – Mar 06: 77,006 curvesPlots per day: 423
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Website Activity Recorded from 10/2005 to 03/2006
Total Web Pages Downloaded: 1,364,210 Average Pages Downloaded: 7,496 per day or ~1 every 10 sec Average Data Transferred per day: 1 GB
Number of Unique Visitors: 152,579 Average Unique Visitors per day: 838
Most Active Day: Wednesday Most Active Time: 4 pm ESTMost Inactive Day: Saturday Most Inactive Time: 1 am EST
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Monthly Download Statistics
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Top Ten Downloaded Pages(Excluding the Home Page)
VSOTS1%
Variable Stars2%
Types of Variables
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Observing1%
WebObs15%
Charts16%
IRC Chat19%
JD Calendar1%
Light Curve Generator
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Password protected section of website completed
Members have “gold” access to ALL features. Observers have “blue” access to submit observations (only)
WebObsWebObs in first stage of alpha testing
‘Gold’ features coming soon:
-- access to robotic telescope
-- access member info db (opt in)
-- access fast lcg
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November 1983 through December 2005
Total Number of Observations26,739
Total Number of Observers 60 Total Number of Stars 72
PEP Data Archives
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The Variable Star Index (VSX)
Program by Chris Watson Search for variable stars near given
coordinates (most available catalogs) Modify variable star info (period, type,…) Add new variable stars Links to other sites (images, light curves) Presentation at SAS/2006 Future!
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Automated Chart Plotter
Program by Michael Koppleman (Clockwork Active Media Systems)
Beta release - now! Full interactive chart generation,
multiple scales, orientation Easy to add new objects Will replace all of the web charts
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Robotic Telescopes
Membership benefit Will be part of upcoming members-only
section of website Observation request form will be
available shortly
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Sonoita Ridge Observatory (SRO)
Operated by John Gross; partners Dirk Terrell, Walt Cooney and AAVSO
C14, Paramount, STL-1001E
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SRO Results
Campaign on W Vir Calibration of GRB fields Calibration of LPV fields Calibration of novae fields Monitoring for Bill Dillon, Michael
Sallman, Dan Taylor
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Elysa Hope (Oregon Episcopal School) - finalist for Intel’s Science Talent Search. Student of Rosa Hemphill, TOPS teacher; Janet suggested sunspot studies.
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Science Fair Projects
Wilhelm Richter’s (ASMSA) students Amna Malik - V371 Per, unusual RR Lyr Trey Pettit - TU Cas NFO (24” Cass Silver City NM) http://www.nfo.edu
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Other Richter Students
Heejun Woo: The Blazhko Effect of RR Gem (2nd place regional)
Briac Riddle: Refining the Distance and Period of VX Persei (3rd place regional, 1st place junior)
Malik, Petit projects being continued by new students
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AAVSO Publications October 2005 – March 2006
Journal of the AAVSO Edited by Charles A. Whitney, with assistance from Elizabeth o.
Waagen, Michael Saladyga, and Matthew Templeton
Vol. 33, No. 2: Preprint nos. 11 - 17 and 24, 28, 30 eJAAVSO: Vol. 34, No. 1: Preprint nos. 18, 23, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35
Vol. 33, No. 2: Preprint nos. 20, 31, 36
AAVSO Bulletin 69: 2006: Predicted Dates of Maxima and Minima of 561 Long Period Variables Prepared by Elizabeth O. Waagen
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AAVSO Special Notice, Nos. 1 – 9Prepared by Aaron Price
AAVSO Special MyNewsFlash: EX Hya appears to be in outburstPrepared by Elizabeth Waagen
AAVSO Alert Notice, Nos. 327 – 338
Prepared by Elizabeth Waagen and Aaron Pricce, with assistance by Kerriann Malatesta
AAVSO Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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AAVSO Eyepiece Views, Nos. 311 – 313Prepared by Gamze Menali with contributions from Aaron Price and Mike Simonsen.
AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - French Edition,January 2006Translated by Dominique Naillon, edited by Gamze Menali and Sara J. Beck
AAVSO Variable Star of the Season (AAVSO website)Prepared by Kerriann Malatesta (Winter 2006) and Pamela Gay (Spring 2006)
AAVSO Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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Observed Minima Timings of Eclipsing Binaries, No. 10
Prepared by Marvin E. Baldwin and Gerry Samolyk
AAVSO 2006 Ephemeris for Eclipsing Binaries
Prepared by Marvin E. Baldwin and Gerry Samolyk
AAVSO 2006 Ephemeris for RR Lyrae Stars Prepared by Marvin E. Baldwin and Gerry Samolyk
AAVSO Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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AAVSO Solar Bulletin, Vol. 61, Nos. 9 - 12; Vol. 62, Nos. 1 - 3
Prepared by Carl E. Feehrer; SID Reports by Michael Hill
AAVSO Newsletter, No. 32
Edited by Travis Searle
AAVSO Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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Boyd, D., Oksanen A., and Henden, A., “Measurement of the orbital and superhump periods of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable SDSS J170213.26+322954.1”, J. British Astronomical Association. (accepted).
Green, D. W. E., Waagen, E. O., “V1118 Orionis”, IAU Circular 8626; 2005.
Green, D. W. E., Waagen, E. O., “Nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud”, IAU Circular 8636; 2005.
AAVSO Staff Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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Green, D. W. E., Waagen, E. O., “RS Ophiuchi”, IAU Circular 8688; 2006.
Henden, A. A, “Pro-Am Collaboration and the AAVSO, Astrophysics of Variable Stars”, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 999, C. Sterken and C. Aerts; 2006.
Malatesta, K. H., Beck S. J., Menali G., Waagen E.O., “The AAVSO Data Validation Project”, eJAAVSO (accepted for publication, pre-print no.31).
AAVSO Staff Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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Price. A., et al., “Planetary Transits of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey Candidate TrES-1b”, JAAVSO, Volume 34; 2005.
Price, A., Allen, S. L., Fhima, A., Garcia, J., Mahabal, A., Seaman, R., Williams, R., “The VOEvent Alert Messaging System”, presented at the 2007th Meeting of the AAS, No. 34.02.
Templeton, M. R. et al., “The Recently Discovered Dwarf Nova System ASASJ002511+1217.2: A New WZ Sagittae Star”, PASP 118, 236.
AAVSO Staff Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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Templeton, M. R., and Price, A., “Campaign 04: AAVSO Observing Campaigns in 2004”, JAAVSO; 2006 (in press).
Templeton, M. R., et al. “Preliminary Results from the AAVSO Infrared Photometry Group”, presented at the 207th Meeting of the AAS (AAS 207, 122.17); 2006.
AAVSO Staff Publications October 2005 – March 2006
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Balman, S., Retter, A., and Bos, M., “The Detection of a 3.5-h Period in the Classical Noval Velorum 1999 (V382 Vel) and the Long Term Behavior of the Nova Light Curve”, AJ; 2006. (accepted).
Neustroev V.V., Zharikov S. V., and Michel R., “Simultaneous photometry and echelle-spectroscopy of the dwarf nova BZ Ursae Majoris during the 2005 January outburst”, MNRAS. (accepted for publication).
Publications with AAVSO Assistance October 2005 – March 2006
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New AAVSO Brochure
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- Sample Page -
Translated by AAVSO member Jaime Garcia
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Our Spanish translator, Jaime Garcia!
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Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars
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-Sample Pages -
Translated by AAVSO member Georgios Koronis with assistance by Athanasios Douvris and
Vagelis Tsamis
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Georgios is the one with the olive green jacket
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Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars
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-Sample Pages -Translated by AAVSO member Seiji Tsuji
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- Asakusa Temple -
Image credit: http://www.japaneselifestyle.com.au/travel/tokyo_temples.html
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Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars
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Upcoming travel
Next week - Belgium VSS End of May - BAA/VSS June - RASNZ August - Hungarian amateurs (during
IAU)
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200,000 visual observations – 1 observer150,000 visual observations – 4 observers100,000 visual observations – 1 observer 50,000 visual observations – 1 observer 25,000 visual observations – 4 observers 10,000 visual observations – 4 observers 50,000 CCD/PEP observations – 4 observers 25,000 CCD/PEP observations – 4 observers 10,000 CCD/PEP observations – 6 observers 2,500 PEP observations – 1 observer
2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
200,000 visual observations
Wayne M. Lowder USA 1949-2005 209,439
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
150,000 visual observations
Marvin E. Baldwin USA 1961-2004 175,481
John E. Bortle USA 1963-2005 171,352
Edward G. Oravec USA 1943-2003 170,552
Thomas A. Cragg Australia 1945-2005 151,735
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
100,000 visual observations
Albert F. Jones New Zealand 1960-2005 105,524
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
50,000 visual observations
Gunther Krisch Germany 1969-2005 52,378
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
25,000 visual observations
Maciej Reszelski Poland 2000-2005 39,751
William Goff USA 1981-2005 33,028
Laurent Bichon France 1986-2005 27,466
Robert H. Hays, Jr. USA 1977-2005 25,428
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
10,000 visual observations
Stephen Kerr Australia 2001-2005 17,833
Andrzej Markiewicz Poland 1999-2005 11,737
Hiroshi Matsuyama Japan 1978-2005 11,596
Hartmut Bretschneider
Germany 1993-2005 10,087
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
50,000 CCD/PEP observations
Robert A. James USA 1953-2005 71,432 CCD
Tonny Vanmunster Belgium 1976-2005 62,317 CCD
Vance Petriew Canada 2001-2005 60,390 CCD
Shawn W. Dvorak USA 1981-2005 50,489 CCD
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
25,000 CCD/PEP observations
Neil D. Butterworth Australia 2002-2005 41,358 CCD
Richard J. Huziak Canada 1980-2005 37,162 CCD
Peter Nelson Australia 1990-2005 28,830 CCD
Donn R. Starkey USA 2001-2005 25,833 CCD
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
10,000 CCD/PEP observations
Richard Miles England 2004-2005 17,975 CCD
David Boyd England 2003-2005 14,539 CCD
James L. Jones USA 2003-2005 11,651 CCD
Christopher W. Hesseltine USA 1975-2005 11,392 CCD
Timothy Crawford USA 2001-2005 10,892 CCD
Libert A.G. Monard South Africa 1992-2005 10,398 CCD
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2006 AAVSO Observer Awards
2,500 PEP observations
Raymond W. Jones South Africa 1989-2005 2,671 PEP
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Thank you!
All of our volunteers through the year Staff for just about everything Council for their guidance Observers, without whom our
contribution to the community would be far less
Members, one and all, for your support