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From: "Mike Simonsen" <mikesimonsen
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	Interestto AAVSO members
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:44:18 -0500

Another great set of historical articles can be found in the 75th
Anniversary Edition of the JAAVSO, Volume 15, Number 2.

I was given a copy of this volume to borrow from John Toone while attending
a meeting of the BAAVSS in Preston, England. He thought I would be
interested in an article about the early history of AAVSO and charts and
sequences that I had not read before.

Dorrit Hoffleit's paper describing some of the early tools used for
determining photographic magnitudes, including one they called the
.
I confess there were a number of reasons I didn't get much sleep on that
trip, but one of them was staying up until the wee hours reading what turned
out to be a whole series of great articles on the history of AAVSO for
several nights.

I have recently delved back into this great volume while doing research for
some upcoming projects. I highly recommend it. Unlike many scientific
journals, its actually quite a page turner :^)


Mike Simonsen

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From: "Tim Crawford" <tcarchcape
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 7:29 PM
Interestto AAVSO members


> Just about finished reading the reminiscences of
> Harlow Shapley, "Through Rugged Ways To The Stars,"
> 1969,Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
>
> Harlow was the Director of the Harvard College
> Observatory for many years, starting in 1921.
>
> Writing of individuals working at the Observatory at
> the time he was hired he had this to say of interest
> to AAVSO members:
>
> "Then there was Leon Campbell, who was one of the
> important men at the Observatory [circa 1921] . He was
> variable star observers and a devoted manager of their
> affairs for the next thirty years.  The American
> Association for Variable Star Observers was founded at
> Harvard Observatory in 1911, and at the present time
> [circa 1969] is still a thriving amateur scientific
> society.  The AAVSO does really good work besides
> absorbing the energies of amateurs.  We got special
> gifts of money.  We had annual meetings at the
> Observatory, and many a person remembers Mrs. Shapley
> entertaining the amateurs and their friends on the
> observatory lawns.
> Building up the AAVSO was really a serious
> contribution that the Harvard Observatory made to
> astronomy. "
>
> For those that have an interest in the history of the
> AAVSO, HQ has a good series of articles starting here:
>
> http://www.aavso.org/aavso/history/
>
> To the Stars
>
> Tim Crawford  CTX
> Arch Cape Observatory
>
> http://homepage.ma.com/windwalker1/ACObserv.htm
>
>
>
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