The American Association of Variable Star Observers proudly recognizes the following persons for their invaluable contributions of digitized historical variable star observation to the AAVSO International Database.
Presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, Woburn, Massachusetts, November 14, 2015
10,000 observations digitized
Christian Froeschlin
15,000 observations digitized
Bruno Billiaert
100,000 observations digitized
Kevin Paxson
AAVSO 101st Spring Meeting, Big Bear, California, May 22-24, 2012
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2011
AAVSO 100th Spring Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-26, 2011
AAVSO 99th Spring Meeting, Mendoza, Argentina, April 15–28, 2010;
awards presented or announced at the 99th Annual Meeting,
Woburn, Massachusetts, October 30, 2010
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2009
Award/recipient Affiliation* Country Interval Total
Over 150,000 Visual Observations*
Rod Stubbings 14 Australia 1997–2009 173,519
Warren Morrison
GRB030725: An Amateur Discovery in a Professional Field
Elizabeth started working at the AAVSO in 1979 after graduating with a degree in Astronomy from Smith College in Northhampton, MA. She began as technical assistant to Director Janet Mattei. Over the next 25 years the variety and number of her responsibilities grew.
AAVSO 98th Spring Meeting, Northwoods Resort, Big Bear Lake, California, May 19 - 21, 2009
Harlow Shapley once referred to Leslie C. Peltier as "the world's greatest living amateur astronomer." This was a view shared by all who knew him, or knew of him. During his active observing life, which spanned all, or parts of eight decades, he made over 132,000 observations of variable stars, discovered twelve comets and six novae.
