Charles Scovil receives Director's Award

Charles Scovil , left, receives the AAVSO Director's Award at the Toronto meeting from Janet Mattei and AAVSO President Gary Walker.

For more than three decades, Charles Scovil has used his talents to make hundreds of professional-quality star charts for the AAVSO, using the facilities at Stamford Observatory in Connecticut. Charles has also prepared the 1st and 2nd editions of the AAVSO Variable Star Atlas, and has contributed over 37,000 variable star observations to the AAVSO.