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The Omega Centauri Award List of Recipients 4 May 2021 The Omega Centauri Award List of recipients 4 May 2021 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA 1 Contents Foreword ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 1983 Paul Maley ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1984 Debbie Byrd ................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1985 George Ellis .................................................................................................................................................................... 7 1986 Don & Shelly Garland .................................................................................................................................................... 8 1987 Carol Rodgers ................................................................................................................................................................. 9 1988 John Dobson ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 1989 David Clark ................................................................................................................................................................... 11 In his own words .............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Source: Dave Clark .............................................................................................................................................................. 12 1990 Walter Scott Houston .................................................................................................................................................. 13 1991 Amelia & Steve Goldberg ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Nomination ........................................................................................................................................................................... 14 1992 Richard Berry ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 1993 Mike Dennis ................................................................................................................................................................. 16 1994 Stephen J. O'Meara ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 1995 John Wagoner ............................................................................................................................................................... 19 1996 Ed Flaspoehler ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 1997 David H. Levy ............................................................................................................................................................... 24 1998 Robert L Gent ............................................................................................................................................................... 25 1999 Jackie Buecher ............................................................................................................................................................. 27 2000 Candace Pratt & Carol Cole ....................................................................................................................................... 28 2001 Tom Clark ..................................................................................................................................................................... 29 2002 Bob & Lisa Summerfield .............................................................................................................................................. 30 2003 Attilla Danko .................................................................................................................................................................. 31 2004 Richard Brown ............................................................................................................................................................. 33 2005 Steve Coleman – Clyde Heath – Larry Slay -Tom Mc Dermott – George Huling ....................................................... 34 2006 Larry Mitchell ............................................................................................................................................................... 35 2007 Dennis Borgman .......................................................................................................................................................... 36 2008 John Rudd .................................................................................................................................................................... 38 2009 Terence Dickinson ....................................................................................................................................................... 39 2012 Perry & Patricia Remaklus ........................................................................................................................................... 40 2013 Don Olson - Russell Doescher ..................................................................................................................................... 41 2014 Jeff Barton ................................................................................................................................................................... 43 2 2015 Deborah Moran ........................................................................................................................................................... 45 Nomination ........................................................................................................................................................................... 45 2016 Gary Carter .................................................................................................................................................................. 46 2017 Joe Khalaf ..................................................................................................................................................................... 47 Nomination ........................................................................................................................................................................... 47 2018 Fort Bend Astronomy Club .......................................................................................................................................... 49 Nomination ........................................................................................................................................................................... 50 2019 Daniel and Rebeca Roy ................................................................................................................................................ 52 Nomination ........................................................................................................................................................................... 52 In their own words ................................................................................................................................................................ 52 3 Foreword Each year an evaluation committee meets before the Texas Star Party to discuss the candidates who have been nominated for the Omega Centauri award. The Omega Centauri is awarded to the person(s) whose notable efforts have increased Public awareness and/or knowledge of astronomy and/or amateur astronomy. For a short history of TSP, see https://texasstarparty.org/?s=history Our thanks to authors Dan & Rebe Roy for the assembly and production of this history of recipients, 36 years after its inception! Despite some gaps of information for a few of the recipients, this is a wonderful assemblage about these people, who they are, and why they do what they do. We hope it will inspire others for the future! A note from the authors: Dear friends, Looking for details about the Omega Centauri award I realized what a wonderful symbol it truly is. A huge beehive of closely linked beacons going their own way under mutual attraction. So relatively close but still fuzzy and mysterious, probably a remnant of something once much larger but with no organizing center (or is there a small black hole there?). Yup, we don’t know much about it, like us at the eyepiece marveling at whatever so small a portion we can guess of the 5% of what is there. Like for its name sake, I could find very little about the Omega Centauri award besides a most impressive list of names. So, following a suggestion by my greater sister Rene, I think someone should volunteer to put together in one place a history of this award, digging through the nomination forms and whatever
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