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Newsletter for Iya IN THIS ISSUE: H FEATURE ARTICLE IYA CONFERENCE MUSINGS CLAUDINE KAVANAGH . 8 H EYEPIECE VIEWS G . COMELLO: FABRiciUS DUTCH? . 9 M . SIMONSEN: JOHN CHUMack’S ISSUE NO.42 OCTOBER 2009 WWW.AAVSO.ORG ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY . 10 M . TEMPLETON: THE IMPORTANCE OF VISUAL OBSERVATIONS . 11 H ALSO ASTRONOMER INTERRUPTUS . 3 ISTANBUL SYMPOSIUM . 4 DOUBLE DIPPING (AUTUMN) . 12 ciTY MOUSE AND COUNTRY MOUSE . 14 Complete table of contents on page 2 LISTEN UP! AAVSO restless universe THE NEW aaVSO PODcaST Newsletter FOR iya . .7 THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY... The United Nations officially declared 2009 to be the International Year of Astronomy. The AAVSO is proud to be taking part by leading a capstone project: the monitoring of the rare and mysterious 2009–2010 eclipse of Epsilon Aurigae. In the summer of IYA FROM THE 2009, third-magnitude Eps Aur will experience its next eclipse, which occurs every 27.1 years and lasts 714 days, nearly two years! Projects are being developed to include DIRECTOR’S DESK three audiences: amateurs, the general public, and educators, in this exciting observing ARNE A. HENDEN campaign. For more info on the IYA check out www.astronomy2009.org. hat a busy summer! I’ve been on travel 0.1% results, and is quite inexpensive to produce. Wsince early May, both for AAVSO-related In fact, John is sending an assembled system to functions as well as some personal days. It seems the AAVSO shortly, so it will be available for like life passed me by for a few months. Now that some of my testing. I’ll place the results on our PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I’m back at HQ, I’m slowly getting caught up web site so that you can see both the process PAULA SZKODY with email and all of the pressing issues that have and how different cameras compare. As part backlogged. of the testing, we’ve also purchased a Canon s my term will end with the upcoming XSi DSLR, and are having a blast running the A.Annual meeting, this will be my seventh It has been a busy summer for the AAVSO as camera under MaximDL. Doug Welch has found and last Newsletter as President. It has been an well. Since my last report, we’ve had the first on-line software to convert almost any recent interesting two years for—me. I’ve learned a lot of the Citizen Sky workshops, held at the Adler Canon point-and-shoot camera into a computer- about the details of operation of the AAVSO, met Planetarium. It is reported elsewhere, but I was controlled system, and I’m looking forward to a variety of observers throughout the U.S. and quite impressed with both the workshop and testing that option as well. John Hoot has sent me Europe, and spent many discussions of where the venue. Larry Ciupik and Lucy Fortson were his software to convert many RAW formats into we should be going and how we can maintain the excellent hosts, and the theater-style classroom FITS images. Perhaps inexpensive entry into the leadership in variable stars in the light of current had excellent speaker visibility and acoustics. digital world is just around the corner! budget constraints and upcoming all-sky surveys. I’d pick them again in a minute! I think the next This discussion will be continuing at the Annual workshop, to be held at the California Academy Hannah diCicco, our summer assistant, finished Council meeting in Newton. If you have any of Sciences, will be even better. The website is up, scanning the Eggen photometric card catalog, thoughts on the Future of the AAVSO, be sure observations are pouring in—everyone should get and is spending a weekend or two finalizing to transmit them to me or any Council member involved in this interesting project and its “star.” the initial web-based access. By the time that before November. We’ve been working hard with a bunch of friendly you read this, we should have placed the card NSF folk to finalize the three-year Informal catalog on-line for you to use. It is going to take The professional community is also attempting Science Education grant that funds Citizen Sky, a lot of volunteer time to get the scanned images to determine its future via the Decadal Survey. and are happy to announce that the award letter into digitized photometry, so we’ll be asking for This will not be easy, since 117 Science white has been released—full speed ahead! your help in the future. Hannah also worked on papers, 69 State of the Profession papers, 62 the IAU unpublished photometry archives, and Technology Development papers, and 8 Theory, I have a huge backlog of CCD systems to test. those should go on-line soon. Again, here is an Computation, and Laboratory Astrophysics papers I’ve been in contact with John Saxton of the BAA, opportunity for volunteers to digitize data for were submitted by the community. While I’m glad who has developed a neat pulsed-LED system for inclusion in the AAVSO International Database. the AAVSO Council does not face this kind of testing detector linearity. It should be capable of CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE The AAVSO Newsletter—October 2009 FROM THE DIRECTOR’S DESK CONTINUED... We’ve revamped the Observer Award structure we’re getting more new members and observers everyone, to shake your hand, and to find out to account for the differences in observing than ever before, and they bring fresh ideas into where you are coming from and what you want to techniques among visual, CCD, and PEP, as well the AAVSO. Welcome new faces and names do in the future. If I don’t find you, come looking as to give recognition to beginning observers. Any whenever you see them! for me and introduce yourself. Clear skies and reinforcement we can do at an early stage will good observing! H help keep newcomers interested. We will have a I hope to see you all at the upcoming Annual number of new observers coming from the Citizen meeting. It should be full of interesting papers. Sky direction, as well as from the new Variable I tend to get fixated on a couple of topics and Star Club of the Astronomical League. In fact, people, but realize that I really do want to see PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE It has been a privilege to work with Arne, Mike, CONTINUED... THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF Matt, Elizabeth, Aaron, Rebecca, Doc, Sara, VARIABLE STAR OBSERVERS reading overload, it is an exercise in community Gamze, Michael (AAVSO staff are wonderful!) engagement (or advertisement). If you want to during these last two years. Of course, the DIRECTOR Arne A. Henden delve into what is being proposed for the next organization can’t exist without the active visual, PRESIDENT Paula Szkody ten years, you can read these papers from the PEP, and CCD observers, who continue to impress FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jaime R. Garcia Community Input link at: me with their quantity and quality of data. The Second VICE PRESIDENT Michael A. Simonsen AAVSO is a unique and fun organization and I http://sites.nationalacademies.org/bpa/BPA_ TREASURER Gary W. Billings 049810 look forward to continued involvement during my last year on the Council and then as a continuing SECRETARY Gary Walker The ranked list of priorities will likely not be member. The emerging access to a growing COUNCILORS available until next summer, so, in the meantime, array of AAVSO robotic telescopes in N and S you can make your own list to compare with constitutes a path to needed data since I’m not one Barry Beaman Katherine Hutton the official committee. Maybe there should be a of the lucky ones that has an observatory that I James Bedient Michael Koppelman contest as to who comes closest? built in my backyard (actually, I don’t even have Pamela Gay Arlo U. Landolt a backyard where I live in Seattle!). Hopefully, Edward F. Guinan Christopher Watson Meanwhile, it’s a good time to start recalling or this will also enable others in my situation (or learning some basic Spanish—the next spring those in bad weather areas—like Seattle) to obtain AAVSO meeting in April will be in Argentina, observations. Of course, mining the data archive Editor Gamze Menali sponsored by the upcoming President (Jaime is always an alternative on those cloudy nights. Assistant editor Elizabeth O. Waagen Garcia). It promises to be a unique experience in a A workshop on data analysis to find periods, etc. Production editor Michael Saladyga dark site and it enables the AAVSO to forge more is being planned for an upcoming meeting. Until DEVELOPMENT Michael A. Simonsen partnerships on an international level. then, happy observing. H The AAVSO Newsletter is published in January, April, July, and October. Items of general interest CONTENTS to be considered for the Newsletter should be sent to [email protected]. Photos and images in From the Director’s Desk 1 this issue courtesy of Sara Beck, John Chumack, President’s Message 1 THE AAVSO Georg Comello, The Digitized Sky Survey, Astronomer Interruptus—Frank Kameny 3 Claudine Kavanagh, Richard Kinne, Gamze Amateur Astronomy Symposium in Istanbul 4 Walter A. FEIBELMAN SUITE Menali, Haldun Menali, and John O’Neill. Report From Stellafane 6 As a reminder, the In Memoriam 6 Feibelman Suite is Membership in the AAVSO is open to anyone who 2009 Annual Meeting 7 available to guests is interested in variable stars and in contributing Distilled Chicago Reflections— who are in the Boston/ to the support of valuable research.
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