AAVSO Observer Code
LTE
Affiliation
British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS)
Full Name
Thomas Lloyd Evans
Location
St Andrews, GB
Background/Interesting Fact
Active meteor observer in British Astronomical Association 1957-1966 and sporadically since. Staff member of Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, South Africa, 1966-1974 and South African Astronomical Observatory 1974-2001, with short periods at Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Anglo-Australian Observatory, Sydney, Australia. Took up visual variable star observing to supplement professional spectroscopy of R Lep in 1994, and put many more stars on the program after retirement and return to Scotland in 2001. Main instrument is a Meade 14in LX200R on a Losmandy Titan mount.