AAVSO 106th SPRING MEETING, ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 16-17, 2017
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2016
Award/Recipient Affiliation* Country Interval Total
Over 250,000 Visual Observations*
Gary Poyner 20 Great Britain 1990-2016 251,759
Over 200,000 Visual Observations*
Paul Vedrenne 01 France 1978-2016 201,880
Over 100,000 Visual Observations*
Attila Kosa-Kiss 01 Romania 1976-2016 101,134
Over 50,000 Visual Observations*
Csaba Hadhazi 03 Hungary 1990-2016 51,680
Guy M. Hurst 01 Great Britain 1974-2016 50,439
Over 25,000 Visual Observations*
Janos Bakos 03 Hungary 2007-2016 25,886
Jose Rodrigues Ribeiro Portugal 2000-2016 25,321
Michel Dumont 01 France 1983-2016 25,271
Ana Paula Correia Portugal 2000-2016 25,256
Over 10,000 Visual Observations*
David L. Blane 10 South Africa 1978-2016 10,591
Peter Reinhard 24 Austria 1979-2016 10,327
Emilio Colombo 18 Italy 1970-2016 10,138
Over 5,000 Visual Observations*
Xavier Domingo Martinez 15 Spain 2015-2016 7,983
Lee Maisler USA 1991-2016 5,751
William P. Clarke USA 1988-2016 5,213
Over 1,000 Visual Observations*
Ray E. Tomlin USA 2006-2016 2,760
Andrey Maslennikov Ukraine 2016-2016 2,212
Yana Pavlenko Ukraine 2015-2016 2,102
Frank Dempsey 27 Canada 1987-2016 1,480
Andrey Vasilev Ukraine 2016-2016 1,324
Mauro Rana USA 2015-2016 1,224
Nikolai Buchholz Germany 2015-2016 1,198
Dave Smales Great Britain 2013-2016 1,133
Edward Sawyer Canada 2014-2016 1,108
Ronald A. King USA 2010-2016 1,042
Bartosz Salwiczek Poland 2014-2016 1,029
Mark S. De Jong 27 Canada 2008-2016 1,014
Lewis P. Cason USA 1998-2016 1,010
Varvara Prodanets Ukraine 2014-2016 1,002
Over 100 Visual Observations*
Tom Bryant USA 2016-2016 665
Yulia Kunitsa Ukraine 2016-2016 628
Ralf Schoenfeld 02 Germany 2015-2016 574
Michal Kwieciak Poland 2016-2016 501
Alberto Cabello Sanchez Spain 2016-2016 441
Christina Lugova Ukraine 2016-2016 408
Pablo Fernandez Blanco Spain 2016-2016 404
Angelina Shmagun Ukraine 2016-2016 372
Alexsandr E. Morozov Russia 2015-2016 266
Zoltan Sonkoly 03 Hungary 2014-2016 207
Alexander Zverev Russia 2016-2016 201
William M. Pittendreigh USA 2016-2016 173
John Carl Martin USA 2013-2016 169
Nuno Costa Portugal 2004-2016 166
Richard Glassner USA 2015-2016 145
Terry David Atwood USA 2016-2016 136
Rob Donner USA 2014-2016 131
Ferenc Tamasko 03 Hungary 2016-2016 131
Fabio Feijo Brazil 2014-2016 114
Yury A. Melnikov Austria 2015-2016 113
Philippe Danthine Belgium 2016-2016 111
Robert Jacques Lawless France 2009-2016 107
Massimo Cappellini Italy 2015-2016 103
Martin Kearns 06 Spain 2015-2016 102
Juliana Gomes Pontes 27 Canada 2015-2016 101
Over 1.6 MILLION CCD Observations*
Franz-Josef Hambsch 05 Belgium 2002-2016 1,651,936
Over 700,000 CCD Observations*
Robert A. James USA 1953-2016 706,925
Over 400,000 CCD Observations*
Teofilo Arranz Spain 2005-2016 471,909
Gerard Samolyk USA 1975-2016 462,590
James L. Jones USA 2002-2016 417,739
Over 200,000 CCD Observations*
Vance Petriew 27 Canada 2001-2016 290,301
Kenneth Thomas Menzies USA 1968-2016 274,247
Lewis (Lew) Cook USA 1974-2016 265,743
Richard Sabo USA 2006-2016 265,668
William L. Stein USA 2008-2016 237,389
Ian Miller 20 Great Britain 2007-2016 210,311
Joseph Howard Ulowetz USA 2010-2016 209,027
Over 100,000 CCD Observations*
Gordon Myers USA 2007-2016 181,469
Roger Derek Pickard 20 Great Britain 2003-2016 150,016
Peter John Starr Australia 2006-2016 111,719
Peter Robert Nelson Australia 1990-2016 109,807
Geoffrey Stone USA 2016-2016 104,258
Over 50,000 CCD Observations*
James R. Foster USA 2003-2016 81,497
Gary Walker USA 1994-2016 72,174
Douglas E. Barrett France 2007-2016 61,897
Michael J. Cook Canada 2010-2016 50,151
Over 10,000 CCD Observations*
Tomas L. Gomez 06 Spain 1985-2016 28,922
Edward J. Michaels USA 1970-2016 18,924
Tamas Tordai 03 Hungary 1986-2016 17,875
Barbara Gail Harris USA 2002-2016 16,964
Velimir Popov Bulgaria 2013-2016 14,015
Stephen M. Brincat Malta 1984-2016 12,164
Simon James Lowther 14 New Zealand 2016-2016 11,631
Emery Erdelyi USA 2007-2016 10,334
Francisco C. S. Alfarp Spain 2012-2016 10,143
Over 1,000 CCD Observations*
Steve James Johnston 20 Great Britain 2014-2016 9,286
John Ritzel USA 2015-2016 7,190
David Eric Cowall USA 1993-2016 6,483
Eric Dose USA 2016-2016 5,677
Clive Beech 20 Great Britain 2007-2016 3,894
Walter R. Cooney USA 2011-2016 3,551
David Young USA 2006-2016 3,265
Brad Phillip Vietje USA 2015-2016 3,016
Maxim Kititsa 09 Ukraine 2000-2016 2,735
Fatemeh Bahrani Iran 2016-2016 2,014
Emilio Primucci Argentina 2015-2016 1,959
Adolfo Darriba Martinez Spain 1993-2016 1,821
Mahdi Kord Zangeneh Iran 2016-2016 1,638
Nathan A. Krumm USA 2014-2016 1,565
Alexander Purves USA 2015-2016 1,359
Rolf Werder Germany 2016-2016 1,196
Daniel James Coulter USA 2016-2016 1,180
Alejandra Arranz Lazaro Spain 2014-2016 1,156
Alberto C. Sadun USA 2009-2016 1,153
Whit Ludington USA 2015-2016 1,137
Martin Fowler 20 Great Britain 2016-2016 1,126
Jose Luis Martin Spain 2014-2016 1,044
Over 10,000 PEP Observations*
Terry Trevor Moon Australia 2016-2016 10,225
Over 5,000 PEP Observations*
Gerald Persha USA 2013-2016 7,066
Over 2,500 PEP Observations*
James H. Fox USA 1999-2016 2,639
Over 100 PEP Observations*
Paul William Kneipp USA 1970-2016 459
Frank Melillo USA 1998-2016 289
James Michael Kay USA 2013-2016 270
Ken Sikes USA 2016-2016 131
Carl Richard Knight 20 New Zealand 2009-2016 104
Over 10,000 DSLR Observations*
Neil Butterworth 29 Australia 2002-2016 28,651
Over 1,000 DSLR Observations*
Bob Manske USA 1987-2016 8,153
Des Loughney 20 Great Britain 2005-2016 4,538
Antonio Brunelli Italy 2016-2016 1,669
Roger Pieri France 2009-2016 1,591
Ronald L. Fournier USA 1995-2016 1,334
Christophe Marlot France 2015-2016 1,152
Oliver Christopher Lopez Venezuela 2016-2016 1,110
Aniruddh Narayan Deshpande India 2013-2016 1,090
Jean-Louis Penninckx France 2015-2016 1,052
Over 500 DSLR Observations*
Nikolay Mishevskiy Ukraine 2015-2016 975
Jyrki T. J. Porio 17 Finland 2015-2016 966
Ivan Sergey Belarus 2003-2016 512
Over 100 DSLR Observations*
Ian S. Megson 20 Great Britain 2015-2016 280
Barbara Gail Harris USA 2002-2016 249
Hauke Hammerl 02 Germany 2016-2016 193
Giuseppe Conzo Italy 2016-2016 111
Luigi Pirozzi Italy 2001-2016 111
Shishir Satish Deshmukh India 2015-2016 104
Stephen R. L. Futcher Great Britain 2016-2016 103
* 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.(BAV)(Germany)
03 Magyar Csillagàszati Egyesület, Valtózocsillag Szakcsoport (Hungary)
05 Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium)
06 Madrid Astronomical Association M1 (Spain)
09 Ukraine Astronomical Group, Variable Star Section
10 Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, Variable Star Section
14 Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Variable Star Section
17 URSA Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (Finland)
18 Unione Astrofili Italiani (Italy)
20 British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section
24 Astronomischer Jugendclub (Austria)
27 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
29 Variable Stars South (New Zealand)