AAVSO Workshop: Advanced Visual Observing

Friday, October 14, 2005

Essex Ballroom, Sheraton Newton Hotel

Fall 2005 Meeting Highlights

SCHEDULE

Many thanks to Haldun Menali for video filming and to Travis Searle for video editing.
All videos are in QuickTime format (.mov)

9:00 am Mike Simonsen Welcome and Introduction

9:05 am Elizabeth Waagen The Value of Visual Observations ( video, ppt file )

9:15 am Mike Linnolt The Eye as Photometer ( video, ppt file )

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Gary Poyner (live via webcam) Observing From the Heart of England ( video )

11:00 am Sebastian Otero Calibrating Your Eyes to Match the V-magnitude Scale ( video, ppt file )

11:45 am Charles Scovil Clinton Ford ( video )

12:30 pm Mike Simonsen CVs for Visual Observers ( video, ppt file )

1:00 pm end of workshop

AAVSO Public Workshop: Beginning Visual Observing

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Newton Hotel

SCHEDULE

12:30 pm David Levy Book Signing

1:00 pm Mike Simonsen Welcome and Introduction

1:05 pm David Levy Leslie Peltier ( video, ppt file )

1:45 pm Elizabeth Waagen The Value of Visual Observations ( video, ppt file )

2:00 pm David Williams Binocular Observing ( video )

2:45 pm Gene Hanson "Rules" for Variable Star Observers ( video, ppt file )

3:20 pm Break

3:45 pm Glenn Chaple Tools and resources for Beginning Observers ( video )

4:15 pm Mike Simonsen Star Hopping from Messiers to Variables ( video, ppt file )

4:55 pm Arne Henden Robotic Telescopes ( video, ppt file )

5:10 pm end of workshop