AAVSO 107th Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona, November 15-17, 2018
Note: All Observer Awards are now presented at the Annual Meeting.
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2018
OVER 125,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
02 Frank Vohla Germany 1989-2018 131,392
OVER 100,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
Andrew Pearce Australia 1989-2018 101,834
03 Sandor Papp Hungary 1983-2018 101,613
OVER 75,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
Kenneth J. Medway Great Britain 1973-2018 75,078
OVER 25,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
Alexandr S. Maidik Ukraine 1998-2018 25,371
OVER 10,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
Antonio Padilla Filho Brazil 1987-2018 10,336
OVER 5,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
03 Peter Molnar Hungary 2003-2018 8,005
Robert F. Swanberg USA 1962-2018 7,866
Walter J. Kaminski USA 1959-2018 7,014
Thomas C. Bretl USA 1975-2018 6,515
Albert Glen Dill USA 1993-2018 6,175
Ivan Sergey Belarus 2004-2018 6,087
Sherrill Shaffer USA 2008-2018 6,015
04 Geert Hoogeveen Netherlands 1975-2018 5,600
Laszlo Kocsmaros Rep. of Serbia 2009-2018 5,231
02 Arthur Sturm Germany 1996-2018 5,096
OVER 1,000 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
15 Javier Alonso Spain 2004-2018 4,941
Mark A. Bradbury USA 1992-2018 4,566
04 Edwin Van Dijk Germany 1995-2018 3,379
Vincent R. Coulehan USA 1972-2018 3,267
27 Andrew Beaton Canada 2002-2018 3,258
Lance E. Shaw USA 1996-2018 3,067
Jerome A. Hudson USA 1960-2018 2,359
03 Ivan Vincze Hungary 1990-2018 2,260
13 Paulo S. Reis Fernandes Brazil 1997-2018 1,647
20 Tony Vale Great Britain 2015-2018 1,316
Michel Deconinck France 2014-2018 1,300
Bodo Wichert Germany 2015-2018 1,255
Steven L. Koontz USA 2016-2018 1,099
Igor Yatsenkov Russia 2014-2018 1,043
01 Dominique Proust France 1980-2018 1,037
OVER 100 VISUAL OBSERVATIONS*
Hernan De Angelis Sweden 2017-2018 949
Frank Krafka USA 2001-2018 687
Keith Geary Ireland 2002-2018 679
Andy Howell USA 1964-2018 665
Richard Roberts USA 2017-2018 660
03 Tamas Jakabfi Hungary 2003-2018 469
Marc Eichenberger Switzerland 2003-2018 409
Gabriel Murawski Poland 2012-2018 370
02 Andreas Kammerer Germany 2001-2018 358
Raymond B. Howard USA 2017-2018 308
19 Katarina Holmquist Sweden 2014-2018 298
05 Benny Colyn Belgium 1998-2018 236
03 Zoltan Magyarics Austria 2017-2018 211
Irina Sagaybins'ka Ukraine 2018-2018 209
Richard A. Loslo USA 2017-2018 200
Marcin Figuła Poland 2018-2018 198
Mike Stone USA 2017-2018 193
Elena Odintsova Ukraine 2018-2018 180
Charles F. Trefzger Switzerland 1990-2018 163
Roberto Valdomiro Silva Brazil 2017-2018 162
Charles E. Stewart USA 2018-2018 161
Jason Joseph Rivet USA 2016-2018 137
William H. Carini USA 1985-2018 127
Cledison Marcos da Silva Brazil 2017-2018 126
Preston Pendergraft USA 2016-2018 125
Jean Pierre Dechoz France 2016-2018 125
Arturo Purroy Spain 2013-2018 112
03 Szabolcs Cziniel Hungary 1992-2018 110
Becky Ramotowski USA 2001-2018 108
13 Fabio Fujiwara Brazil 2012-2018 106
Jonathan Poppele USA 2016-2018 106
OVER 2.0 MILLION CCD OBSERVATIONS*
05 Franz-Josef Hambsch Belgium 2002-2018 2,062,698
OVER 800,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Shawn Dvorak USA 1981-2018 851,595
OVER 700,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Teofilo Arranz Spain 2005-2018 794,631
OVER 600,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Gerard Samolyk USA 1975-2018 632,611
OVER 500,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Geoffrey Stone USA 2016-2018 544,533
05 Tonny Vanmunster Belgium 1976-2018 515,413
OVER 400,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
David Cejudo Fernandez Spain 2010-2018 442,782
Gordon Myers USA 2007-2018 409,852
Lewis (Lew) Cook USA 1974-2018 408,063
OVER 300,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Joseph H. Ulowetz USA 2010-2018 303,288
OVER 100,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
James A. Boardman USA 2012-2018 105,189
03 Tamas Tordai Hungary 1986-2018 104,615
Douglas E. Barrett France 2011-2018 101,425
Timo J. Kantola Finland 2009-2018 101,012
Yenal Ogmen North Cyprus 2004-2018 100,969
05 Maarten Vanleenhove Belgium 2014-2018 100,127
OVER 50,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Stephen M. Brincat Malta 1984-2018 56,530
Laurent Corp France 1997-2018 54,352
John W. Rock Great Britain 2012-2018 62,879
OVER 10,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Pablo Lewin USA 2017-2018 24,573
05 Sjoerd Dufoer Belgium 2001-2018 22,315
Jim Seargeant USA 2015-2018 19,538
Marco Ciocca USA 2011-2018 11,539
Ivaldo Cervini Switzerland 2017-2018 11,051
Tadeusz Smela Poland 2014-2018 10,669
Tom Polakis USA 2017-2018 10,367
34 Robert B. Jenkins Australia 2013-2018 10,273
OVER 1,000 CCD OBSERVATIONS*
Matthew F. Knote USA 2018-2018 6,582
Kristie B. Caplikas Australia 2018-2018 5,546
Dan Crowson USA 2017-2018 5,446
Mario A. Morales Aimar Spain 2015-2018 4,849
Gabriel Murawski Poland 2012-2018 4,525
John Francis Briol USA 2012-2018 4,226
Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein Germany 2009-2018 3,893
Richard E. Schmidt USA 2018-2018 3,034
Joseph P. Seitz USA 2017-2018 2,558
18 Claudio Lopresti Italy 2017-2018 2,420
Rafael Gonzalez Farfan Spain 2014-2018 1,959
Jean-Francois Gout USA 2016-2018 1,741
Francisco Sevilla Lobato Spain 1996-2018 1,594
Jeff W. Robertson USA 2013-2018 1,583
29 William Stanley Rea New Zealand 2015-2018 1,581
Jean-Bruno Desrosiers Canada 2014-2018 1,529
02 Klaus Wenzel Wenzel 2004-2018 1,401
Andrew Pearce Australia 1990-2018 1,330
Matthew S. Bundas USA 2017-2018 1,264
Rob Solomon Australia 2014-2018 1,236
27 Stanley Shadick Canada 2011-2018 1,204
Charles Galdies Malta 2017-2018 1,183
John Charles Ruthroff USA 2008-2018 1,165
Huei Sears USA 2017-2018 1,091
Dmitry Matsnev Russia 1991-2018 1,079
Erik J. Schwendeman USA 2016-2018 1,062
Mervyn Millward Australia 2011-2018 1,055
OVER 10,000 PEP OBSERVATIONS*
Gerald Persha USA 2013-2018 11,052
OVER 10,000 DSLR OBSERVATIONS*
Aniruddh N.Deshpande India 2013-2018 10,134
OVER 1,000 DSLR OBSERVATIONS*
Wolfgang Vollmann Austria 1976-2018 2,475
02 Erik Wischnewski Germany 2014-2018 2,464
Richard Biernikowicz Poland 2011-2018 2,427
18 Nicola Montecchiari Italy 1990-2018 2,289
Ivan Sergey Belarus 2003-2018 1,262
10 David L. Blane South Africa 1978-2018 1,095
OVER 500 DSLR OBSERVATIONS*
Maksym Pyatnytskyy Ukraine 2017-2018 978
Stephen C. Schiff USA 1960-2018 834
Søren C. Toft Switzerland 2016-2018 579
OVER 100 DSLR OBSERVATIONS*
Gregory Conrad USA 2017-2018 499
Ray E. Tomlin USA 2006-2018 498
Attila Nemes Hungary 2006-2018 444
Francisco Jablonski Brazil 2018-2018 391
John A. Pickett USA 1988-2018 322
Robert K. Buchheim USA 2005-2018 310
02 Dietmar Augart Germany 2002-2018 243
Yuri Solomonov Russia 2017-2018 234
David Mohrbacher USA 1980-2018 209
Piotr Ligeza Poland 2018-2018 165
17 Sampsa Lahtinen Finland 2004-2018 152
Adam Derdzikowski Poland 2003-2018 150
Bogdan Kubiak Poland 2009-2018 144
Michael G. Miller USA 2010-2018 143
29 Mark G. Blackford Australia 2011-2018 117
David Rodriguez Spain 2016-2018 114
34 David J. Benn Australia 2009-2018 112
Christian Riou France 2012-2018 104
* 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:
| 01 | Association Française des Observateurs d'Étoiles Variables (AFOEV)
| 02 | Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veränderliche Sterne e.V.(Germany) (BAV)
| 03 | Magyar Csillagászati Egyesület, Változócsillag Szakcsoport (Hungary) (MCSE)
| 04 | Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Weer-en Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep
Veranderlijke Sterren (Netherlands) (KNVWS)
| 05 | Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium) (VVS)
| 10 | Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, Variable Star Section (ASSA)
| 13 | Rede de Astronomia Observacional (Brazil) (REA)
| 15 | Agrupacion Astronomica de Sabadell (Spain) (AASABADELL)
| 17 | URSA Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (Finland) (URSA)
| 18 | Unione Astrofili Italiani (Italy) (UAI)
| 19 | Svensk Amator Astronomisk Forening, variabelsektionen (Sweden) (SAAF)
| 20 | British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS)
| 27 | Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)
| 29 | Variable Stars South (VSS)
| 34 | Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU )