AAVSO 105th Spring Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, May 5-7, 2016
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2015
Award/Recipient Affiliation* Country/State Interval Total
Over 225,000 Visual Observations*
Gary Poyner 20 England 1991-2015 244,417
Rod Stubbings 14 Australia 1997-2015 233,756
Over 100,000 Visual Observations*
Frank Vohla 02 Germany 1990-2015 104,811
Hiroshi Matsuyama Japan 1978-2015 103,709
Over 50,000 Visual Observations*
Andrew Pearce Australia 1990-2015 58,208
Alan Plummer 29 Australia 2001-2015 51,828
Over 25,000 Visual Observations*
Alexandre Amorim 36 Brazil 2000-2015 26,492
Joerg Neumann 02 Germany 1993-2015 25,960
Dieter Suessmann 02 Germany 1973-2015 25,188
Over 10,000 Visual Observations*
Colin Henshaw 20 England 1969-2015 12,158
Guus Gilein 04 Netherlands 1998-2015 10,469
Chretien Otten 05 Belgium 1993-2015 10,242
Sandor Keszthelyi 03 Hungary 1977-2015 10,180
Kerstin Raetz 02 Germany 1991-2015 10,160
Over 5,000 Visual Observations*
Chris P. Maloney USA 2012-2015 6,928
Bogdan Kubiak Poland 2009-2015 5,611
Gustav Holmberg 19 Sweden 2013-2015 5,498
Gary M. Ross USA 1966-2015 5,197
Adrian Kovacs 03 Slovakia 2002-2015 5,149
Salvador Aguirre Mexico 2006-2015 5,096
Dietmar Augart 02 Germany 2002-2015 5,092
Over 1,000 Visual Observations*
Xavier Domingo Martínez 15 Spain 2015-2015 3,870
Patrick Grocaut France 2015-2015 1,939
Charles Calia USA 2006-2015 1,604
Jordi Marco Spain 2014-2015 1,273
Marek Muciek Poland 2001-2015 1,245
David G. Turner Canada 2005-2015 1,149
Costantino Sigismondi Italy 2000-2015 1,111
Akos Nagy-Melikuti 03 Hungary 1980-2015 1,069
Laszlo Juhasz 03 Hungary 2011-2015 1,068
Willian C. De Souza 13 Brazil 2000-2015 1,040
Mark S. Harris USA 2005-2015 1,103
Bohdana Zhuravlova Ukraine 2015-2015 1,000
Over 100 Visual Observations*
Lewis P. Cason USA 1998-2015 981
Varvara Prodanets Ukraine 2014-2015 940
Yana Pavlenko Ukraine 2015-2015 939
Bodo Wichert Germany 2015-2015 626
Dennis Merrill USA 2010-2015 616
Mauro Rana USA 2015-2015 539
Nikolai Buchholz Germany 2015-2015 463
Elena Gryshchenko Ukraine 2015-2015 454
Igor Yatsenkov Russia 2014-2015 411
Egor Maleev Ukraine 2014-2015 382
Mikhail Moiseenko Ukraine 2015-2015 380
Tibor Lacko 03 Hungary 2013-2015 349
Ruslan Velikazov Ukraine 2015-2015 340
Bartosz Salwiczek Poland 2014-2015 299
David W. Majors USA 2009-2015 275
Maria Zabaluy Ukraine 2015-2015 262
Lucas Brooks USA 2014-2015 248
Robert D. Rea 14 New Zealand 2007-2015 246
Alexander Toth Hungary 1974-2015 213
Kim Hay 27 Canada 2001-2015 196
Ross C. Mattingly 14 Austalia 1966-2015 183
Heinz Kerner Germany 2015-2015 181
Colin McKenzie Canada 2014-2015 163
Michael W. Prokosch USA 2009-2015 161
Peter G. Spital England 2015-2015 151
Charles G. Taylor 20 Scotland 2014-2015 149
Maurizio Barlazzi Italy 2014-2015 143
Luigi Pirozzi Italy 2001-2015 135
Richard Miles 20 England 2004-2015 129
James D. Sykes USA 2010-2015 123
Mick J. Crook England 2005-2015 117
Damian Jakubek Poland 2011-2015 115
Pierre Reiss France 2013-2015 114
Elizabeth Robinson England 2009-2015 105
Yile Qiu China 2013-2015 104
Volodymyr Kucharchuk 09 Ukraine 2000-2015 103
Jorge Rallo Spain 2014-2015 103
Kristine M. Larsen USA 1996-2015 100
Over 1.4 Million CCD Observations*
Franz-Josef Hambsch 05 Belgium 2002-2015 1,431,797
Over 500,000 CCD Observations*
Shawn Dvorak USA 1981-2015 530,943
Over 300,000 CCD Observations*
Teofilo Arranz Spain 2005-2015 333,305
James L. Jones USA 2003-2015 301,638
Over 200,000 CCD Observations*
David Boyd 20 England 2003-2015 249,406
Richard Sabo USA 2006-2015 227,478
William L. Stein USA 2008-2015 214,348
David Cejudo Fernandez Spain 2010-2015 202,398
Over 100,000 CCD Observations*
Dieter Husar 02 Germany 1998-2015 119,015
Gordon Myers USA 2007-2015 110,606
Over 50,000 CCD Observations*
Maarten Vanl 05 Belgium 2014-2015 68,109
Gary Walker USA 1994-2015 64,592
James A. Boardman USA 2012-2015 51,852
Michael Heald USA 2001-2015 50,297
Over 10,000 CCD Observations*
Rolf Carstens 14 New Zealand 2011-2015 35,387
Douglas E. Barrett France 2007-2015 23,570
Paul Benni USA 2014-2015 13,408
Donald F. Collins USA 2006-2015 13,114
John J. Ott USA 1998-2015 11,774
Thomas Wikander 19 Sweden 2012-2015 11,080
Over 1,000 CCD Observations*
Tamas Tordai 03 Hungary 1986-2015 9,283
Franky Dubois 05 Belgium 2014-2015 8,621
Joseph W. Moody USA 2015-2015 6,257
Stephen M. Brincat Malta 1984-2015 4,815
Horace A. Smith USA 1968-2015 4,656
David E. Cowall USA 1993-2015 4,097
Otmar Nickel 02 Germany 2004-2015 3,677
Enrique de Miguel Spain 2011-2015 3,551
Seiji Tsuji Japan 1990-2015 3,299
Michael W. Richmond USA 2009-2015 3,171
Francisco Campos Spain 2013-2015 3,020
Nikolay Mishevskiy Ukraine 2015-2015 2,713
Nick Quinn 20 England 2003-2015 2,488
Marco Ciocca USA 2011-2015 2,377
William D. Pellerin USA 1998-2015 2,161
Arie Verveer Australia 2015-2015 1,889
Richard B. Potter USA 2004-2015 1,676
David Romeuf France 2015-2015 1,649
Robert C. Weir USA 2014-2015 1,594
Florian Signoret France 2015-2015 1,460
Tiziano Colombo Italy 2010-2015 1,331
Faustino de la Cuesta Garcia 06 Spain 2013-2015 1,125
Steve E. Girard USA 2011-2015 1,104
Damien Lemay 27 Canada 1973-2015 1,072
Tadeusz Smela Poland 2014-2015 1,027
Jason S. Kendall USA 2012-2015 1,001
Over 1,000 PEP Observations*
Glenn M. Thurman USA 2014-2015 2,099
Over 100 PEP Observations*
James M. Kay USA 2013-2015 166
Over 1,000 PTG/PV Observations*
David G. Turner Canada 2005-2015 1,648
Over 500 PTG/PV Observations*
Wayne Osborn USA 1979-2015 612
Over 100 PTG/PV Observations*
Jean-Louis Penninckx France 2015-2015 133
Over 1,000 DSLR Observations*
Bob Manske USA 1987-2015 7,472
Steven Sharpe Canada 1973-2015 1,967
Giuseppe Frustaci 18 Italy 2014-2015 1,745
Penko G. Jordanov Bulgaria 2009-2015 1,688
Over 500 DSLR Observations*
Alberto Tieppo Italy 2015-2015 956
Roger Pieri France 2010-2015 584
Richard Biernikowicz Poland 2013-2015 565
Erik Wischnewski 02 Germany 2014-2015 547
Over 100 DSLR Observations*
Ronald L. Fournier USA 1995-2015 404
Aniruddh N. Deshpande India 2013-2015 348
Jyrki T. J. Porio 17 Finland 2015-2015 265
Jean-Louis Penninckx France 2015-2015 255
Des Loughney 20 Scotland 2005-2015 238
Sandor Hadhazi 03 Hungary 1983-2015 219
Martin Sblewski Germany 2015-2015 149
Dietmar Boehme 02 Germany 1972-2015 132
Maurizio Barlazzi Italy 2014-2015 121
Jesús Manjón Spain 2015-2015 112
Over 100 Visual Observations FROM Digital Image Observations*
Ivan Sergey Belarus 2003-2015 315
Philip Steffey USA 1974-2015 144
Richard L. Tyson USA 1972-2015 122
* Years include total AAVSO observing interval (not only PEP/CCD observing). Total includes only visual or PEP/CCD observations, depending on award.
A number preceding a name indicates observer is also affiliated with the group below:
02 Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veränderliche Sterne e.V.(Germany)
03 Magyar Csillagászati Egyesület, Valtozócsillag Szakcsoport (Hungary)
04 Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Weer-en Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Netherlands)
05 Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium)
06 Madrid Astronomical Association M1 (Spain)
09 Ukraine Astronomical Group, Variable Star Section
13 Rede de Astronomia Observacional (Brazil)
14 Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Variable Star Section
15 Agrupacion Astronomica de Sabadell (Spain)
17 URSA Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (Finland)
18 Unione Astrofili Italiani (Italy)
19 Svensk Amator Astronomisk Forening, variabelsektionen (Sweden)
20 British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section
27 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
29 Variable Stars South
36 Nucleo de Estudo e Observacao Astronomica - Jose Brazilicio de Souza (Florianopolis, Brazil)