AAVSO 106th Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2-4, 2017
These awards, which are for FY 2016-2017, were presented here instead of at the 107th Spring Meeting in Coventry, England, in July 2018, where they traditionally would have been presented.
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2017
Award/Recipient Affiliation* Country Interval Total
Over 250,000 Visual Observations*
Rod Stubbings 14 Australia 1997-2017 257,576
Over 175,000 Visual Observations*
Peter Williams 29 Australia 1989-2017 175,188
Over 125,000 Visual Observations*
Eddy Muyllaert 05 Belgium 1986-2017 137,678
Over 100,000 Visual Observations*
Jose Ripero Osorio 06 Spain 1978-2017 100,937
Over 75,000 Visual Observations*
Andrew Pearce Australia 1990-2017 88,768
Over 25,000 Visual Observations*
George Vithoulkas Greece 1999-2017 25,692
Matyas Csukas Romania 1987-2017 25,112
Over 10,000 Visual Observations*
Xavier Domingo Martinez 15 Spain 2015-2017 13,070
Chris P. Maloney USA 2012-2017 10,777
Larry Shotter USA 1981-2017 10,290
Over 5,000 Visual Observations*
Jon F. M. Brandie China 2011-2017 6,153
Patrick Grocaut France 2015-2017 6,090
Adriano A. Silva Barros 13 Brazil 1996-2017 5,423
Pierre Jacquet 01 France 1992-2017 5,341
Paolo Siliprandi 18 Italy 2005-2017 5,267
Eltjo K. Wubbena 04 Netherlands 2000-2017 5,187
John G. O'Neill USA 1993-2017 5,021
Over 1,000 Visual Observations*
Roger D. Pickard 20 Great Britain 2003-2017 4,053
Gregory P. Banialis USA 1993-2017 3,981
Hans Betlem Netherlands 2007-2017 2,799
Robert Januszewski 20 Great Britain 2005-2017 2,578
Damian Jakubek Poland 2011-2017 2,052
Egor Maleev Ukraine 2014-2017 1,633
Bjorn Karlsson 19 Sweden 2017-2017 1,478
Yulia Kunitsa Ukraine 2016-2017 1,275
James Whinfrey Great Britain 2011-2017 1,236
Andras Uhrin 03 Hungary 1992-2017 1,209
Christina Lugova Ukraine 2016-2017 1,196
Ralf Schoenfeld 02 Germany 2015-2017 1,136
Alicia Capetillo Blanco Spain 2006-2017 1,055
Bernd Schwarz 02 Germany 2013-2017 1,029
Patrick J. Garey USA 1975-2017 1,018
Robert G. MacPhail Canada 2012-2017 1,015
Andrey S. Semenyuta Kazakstan 2017-2017 1,010
Over 100 Visual Observations*
Michel Deconinck France 2014-2017 813
Ugo Tagliaferri Italy 2006-2017 812
Steven L. Koontz USA 2016-2017 670
Artur Wargin Poland 2007-2017 609
Mark A. Davis USA 1988-2017 519
Karl-Gustav Andersson 19 Sweden 2003-2017 516
Kacper W. Wierzchos USA 2016-2017 314
Yekaterina Tsvetkova Ukraine 2017-2017 275
Robert Dudas 03 Hungary 2016-2017 231
Jan Kvapil Sweden 2014-2017 159
James Bove USA 2016-2017 153
Bernard Merand France 2016-2017 120
Csilla Tepliczky 03 Hungary 2007-2017 116
Jeff Oaster USA 2016-2017 111
Kristina Burton USA 2017-2017 104
Michel Dellepere USA 2016-2017 101
Tamas Komaromi 03 Hungary 2014-2017 100
Over 1.7 MILLION CCD Observations*
Franz-Josef Hambsch 05 Belgium 2002-2017 1,784,875
Over 700,000 CCD Observations*
Shawn Dvorak USA 1981-2017 708,483
Over 500,000 CCD Observations*
Teofilo Arranz Spain 2005-2017 577,189
Gerard Samolyk USA 1975-2017 544,834
Over 300,000 CCD Observations*
Lewis (Lew) Cook USA 1974-2017 346,561
David Cejudo Fernandez Spain 2010-2017 345,719
Geoffrey Stone USA 2016-2017 323,142
Kenneth Thomas Menzies USA 1968-2017 321,900
Vance Petriew 27 Canada 2001-2017 313,709
Richard Sabo USA 2006-2017 301,018
Over 200,000 CCD Observations*
Gordon Myers USA 2007-2017 296,226
Arto Oksanen 17 Finland 2001-2017 204,656
Over 100,000 CCD Observations*
James R. Foster USA 2003-2017 129,002
Alain Bruno 01 France 1981-2017 107,567
Jeremy Shears 20 Great Britain 2004-2017 106,556
Over 50,000 CCD Observations*
James Bruce McMath USA 1992-2017 64,230
Tamas Tordai 03 Hungary 1986-2017 52,176
Over 10,000 CCD Observations*
Franky Dubois 05 Belgium 2014-2017 35,884
Nikolay Mishevskiy Ukraine 2015-2017 30,985
Frans D. J. Nieuwenhout 04 Netherlands 1999-2017 23,729
Eric Dose USA 2016-2017 20,240
David Eric Cowall USA 1993-2017 15,521
Damien Lemay 27 Canada 1973-2017 15,122
Anthony Kroes USA 2004-2017 14,998
David S. Conner 20 Great Britain 2009-2017 14,352
Kevin Hills Great Britain 2012-2017 12,592
Steve James Johnston 20 Great Britain 2014-2017 10,811
Michael A. Nicholas USA 2001-2017 10,657
John Ritzel USA 2015-2017 10,472
Wolfgang Vollmann Austria 1976-2017 10,267
Mark J. Munkacsy USA 1997-2017 10,230
Over 1,000 CCD Observations*
Jim Seargeant USA 2015-2017 7,821
Tom Polakis USA 2017-2017 7,465
Pablo Lewin USA 2017-2017 7,239
Francois M. Teyssier France 2006-2017 6,713
Alessandro Marchini 18 Italy 2006-2017 5,418
Riccardo Papini 18 Italy 1992-2017 4,902
David W. G. Smith 20 Great Britain 2017-2017 4,448
Michelle Dadighat USA 2014-2017 4,302
Bram Goossens 05 Belgium 2017-2017 3,388
John Edward Hall USA 2009-2017 3,251
Ulisse Quadri 18 Italy 2016-2017 2,982
Stoian Andrei-Marian Romania 2013-2017 2,851
Clifford Kotnik USA 2016-2017 2,740
Greg Gordon Bolt 31 Australia 2017-2017 2,693
Franklin R. Guenther USA 2013-2017 2,583
Ivaldo Cervini Switzerland 2017-2017 2,346
Marc Deldem 01 France 2011-2017 2,235
Geoff B. Chaplin 20 Great Britain 2015-2017 2,014
Robert A. Stiller USA 2017-2017 1,848
Emil J. L. Pellett USA 2017-2017 1,624
Bernard Candela 01 France 1978-2017 1,528
Andre Debackere France 2016-2017 1,468
Carl Richard Knight 20 New Zealand 2009-2017 1,449
Gianluca Rossi Italy 2001-2017 1,423
John H. Mallett 20 Great Britain 2010-2017 1,371
Paul Luckas Australia 2017-2017 1,360
Charles H. Cynamon USA 2017-2017 1,328
Jean-Francois Hamel Canada 2016-2017 1,291
Craig Young New Zealand 2017-2017 1,275
Luis Francisco Perez Spain 2012-2017 1,272
James Arnold USA 1956-2017 1,223
David J. Dowhos Canada 2006-2017 1,147
Lukasz Socha Poland 2017-2017 1,007
Over 7,500 PEP Observations*
Gerald Persha USA 2013-2017 9,124
Over 100 PEP Observations*
Erwin Van Ballegoij 04 Netherlands 1984-2017 112
Over 1,000 DSLR Observations*
Jyrki T. J. Porio 17 Finland 2015-2017 2,931
Thanasis F. Papadimitriou Greece 2012-2017 2,548
Over 500 DSLR Observations*
Martin Sblewski Germany 2015-2017 786
Sandor Hadhaz 03 Hungary 1983-2017 664
Wolfgang Vollmann Austria 1976-2017 631
Dietmar Boehme 02 Germany 1972-2017 628
Over 100 DSLR Observations*
David L. Blane 10 South Africa 1978-2017 492
Stephen C. Schiff USA 1960-2017 406
Derek Christ Germany 2017-2017 398
Jean-Francois Gout USA 2017-2017 364
Raymond Kneip Luxembourg 2013-2017 363
Gabriel Murawski Poland 2013-2017 305
Jean-Michel Rayon 01 France 2016-2017 257
Steve C. Boerner USA 2017-2017 252
Ethan Jacob Brown USA 2017-2017 128
Marian Legutko Poland 2000-2017 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)
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)
10 Astronomical Society of Southern Africa, 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 Förening, Variabelsektionen (Sweden)
20 British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section
27 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
29 Variable Stars South (New Zealand)
31 Center for Backyard Astronomy