Video From the 91st AAVSO Spring Meeting - 2002

Below are MPG movies of some of the papers and presentations made at the 91st AAVSO Spring Meeting.

Presentations

Membership/Director's Report: Presented by Janet Mattei and Committee Chairpersons
Download this presentation in parts:

Part One - (158 MB) About 30 min. of tape

Part Two - (144 MB) About 30 min. of tape

Part Three - (113 MB) About 30 min. of tape

Papers

Many of these papers will be published in the JAAVSO.

• Douglas T. Durig - "Observations of Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts as Co-operative Observing Exercises for Advanced Astronomy Classes"
• Kirk S. Holtgrewe and D.T. Durig - "Obserations of the Cataclysmic Variable 1 RXP J113123+4322.5"
• Margarita Karovska - "Latest Surprises from Mira the Wonderful"
• Kevin B. Marvel - "Chemistry Near Evolved Stars via mm Interferometry"
• Albert Zijlstra - "Evolution and Instability in Mira Variables"
• Bob Nelson - "Star Modeling with a Laptop"
• Charles J. Rodkey - "NASA's Swift Satellite - Gamma Ray Bursts on the Fly"
• Karen Jean Meech - "Science Outreach for the Deep Impact Mission"
• Arne A. Henden - "JHK Standards for Small Telescopes"
• Mario E. Motta, MD - "Calculating the Total Photon Flux from Luminous Events"
• Gary Billings, Dirk Terrell - "Obsevations and Modeling of the Eclipsing Binary GSC 3515:0865"
• Dan Kaiser - "2002 OW Gem Secondary Eclipse: Call for Observations"
• Orville H. Brettman - "Standstill Behavior in the Light Curve of UZ Serpentis"
• John Pazmino - "Street Stars"
• Carl Feehrer - "Day-to-Day Variation in Estimates of Sunspot Group Totals" (video not available)
• Martha L. Hazen, Janet A. Mattei - "Period Changes in the Long Period Variable TY Cas"
• Seiichi Sakuma - "Japan's First Variable Star Observer, Dr. Ichinohe"
• Sallie Teames - "Signs of Eta Carinae Outburst in Artifacts of Ancient Bolivia"
• Rodney Howe - "Detecting Cosmic Rays Coming into our Atmosphere with the Help of Clustering Statistics"

MPG Players

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