JAAVSO Invited Review Papers
Invited review papers published in the special centennial edition of The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Centennial Celebration
2011 The Centennial Year in Review
The following are highlights from 2011, the centenary year of the AAVSO.
Spring Meeting, May 21-26, Joint meeting with the AAS
Group Photo from the AAVSO's 100th Anniversary Meeting
Click on this link for a downloadable high-resolution group photo (1.7MB)
Click on this link for a downloadable KEY to the photo (877kb pdf)
Downloadable key includes list of those who attended but were not present for the photo
100th Annual Meeting - Schedule
October 4-8, 2011
AAVSO HQ, Cambridge, MA & Hilton Hotel, Woburn, MA
Tue, 10/4
All day
Council Meeting - Current Council Members Only (@ AAVSO HQ)
Wed, 10/5
Morning
Historical Paper Session: Women in AAVSO History; The History of Variable Star
Organizations (@ Woburn Hilton)
Afternoon
Historical Paper Session: The History of Variable Star Organizations (@ Woburn Hilton)
Evening
Centennial Celebration Update March 2011
We are nearing the end of the first quarter of our centennial year. This is a good time to take a look at what has transpired thus far and what is yet to come.
Observer Challenges
http://www.aavso.org/centennial-observer-challenges
The Twenty Million and Counting! Contest is over now that the database has passed this milestone. The winner, with the prediction closest to the actual day of the milestone was Christopher Watson of San Diego, California.
20-MILLION MILESTONE FOR 100-YEAR CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT
A citizen science project running for over 100 years reached a key milestone this month when an amateur astronomer contributed the 20 millionth observation of a variable star on February 19, 2011.
Centennial T-Shirt Fundraiser
To help support our 2011 Centennial Celebration the AAVSO is offering special commemorative T-shirts in exchange for your $50.00 donation to the AAVSO. This was a limited edition run of 200 shirts only (update: about 130 left as of May, 2011). Once they are gone they are gone. We will never produce these collector items again.