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AAVSO 111th Annual Meeting, 2022

A coyote in the seated howling position in front of a cactus. Background is astrophotograph filled with clouds. Text reads, AAVSO 111th Annual Meeting & Workshop, November 4-7, 2022, Tucson, AZ

Jan. 13, 2022:

"Proceedings of the 111th Annual Meeting of The American Association of Variable Star Observers" is now available!

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The Annual Meeting will be held at The Omni Tucson National Resort, and include an opening reception Nov. 4, and a closing banquet with trivia and a raffle on Nov. 6. The keynotes and other research presentations on Nov. 5 & 6 will also be broadcast to both in-person and online attendees. The "Advanced Use for AstroImageJ Workshop" will be in-person only on Nov. 7. 

 See the schedule and talk abstracts below! 

                    Meet the keynotes!

 

Meeting Schedule

Please note:

  • Times are listed in MST. Opening times on Saturday and Sunday, and the times of the first presentations after lunch, are noted in UTC in red.
  • There are no Observing Section break-out sessions at the Meeting this year. 

Read the talk abstracts

Date/time

 

 

Activity or presenter

* = remote presenter

 

On-site room name

or

Talk subject 

Talk title

 

 

Friday, Nov. 4

Board Meeting 

Cypress

 

8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. MST

Board-only meeting

  

 

Friday, Nov. 4

Opening Reception

Navajo

 

7:00–9:00 p.m. MST

Cash Bar

  

 

8:00 p.m. MST

Keynote: Sean Walker

Survey

MDW Hydrogen-Alpha Sky Survey

Saturday, Nov. 5

Annual Meeting Day 1

Papago & Terrace

 

8:00–8:30 MST

Coffee

 

 

8:30–8:40 a.m. MST

(UTC: 15:30)

Welcome!

 

 

8:45 a.m.–9:20

Keynote: Landolt Lecture

(Dr. Arne Henden)

APASS

The AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS)

9:20–9:40

Dr. Eric R. Craine

Sky Survey

A Program for Characterizing Variable Stars Discovered in the MOTESS-GNAT Sky Surveys

9:40–10:00

Dr. Douglas Walker

CubeSat

A CubeSat for UV/Optical Pro-Am Astronomy

10:00–10:20

Teja Begari*

(an AAVSO ambassador)

Ambassadors

Work by Ambassadors of the AAVSO: The Outreach

10:20–10:50

Coffee Break

 

 

10:50–11:10

 

Mark Spearman

 

Photometry

 

Dynamic Methods for Transforming Photometric Observations to a Standard System

11:10–11:30

Ken Menzies

Photometry

How To Select Comparison Stars and Why?

11:30–11:50

Gary Walker

Photometry

MWC349: Outburst or Anomalous Photometry?

12:00 p.m.–2:00

12:30–1:30

 

 

Lunch Break

AAVSOnet Updates Session

 

 

Papago & Terrace

For online attendees: 

same link as morning

With Dr. Arne Henden

 

 

2:00–2:35

(UTC: 21:00–21:35)

Keynote: Dr. James Clem

Education

Arlo U Landolt (1935-2022): A Life Above Standards

2:40–3:00

 

Dr. Matthew Craig

 

Education

 

Development of an observational astronomy course and accompanying open source software

3:00–3:20

Brenda Paul

Education

A Glimpse into in a High School Astronomy Classroom

3:20–3:40

Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman

 

Mira

 

Reference Set of Mira Variables for the World to Share 

View her list of Miras to observe!

3:40–4:00

Henry Prager

Mira

Characterizing Mass Loss in Mira and SR Variables in the LMC

Sunday, Nov. 6

Annual Meeting Day 2

 Papago & Terrace

 

9:00–10:30 a.m. MST

(UTC: 16:00–17:30)

Membership Meeting

& Awards

 

 

10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00–11:35

(UTC: 18:00–18:35)

 

Keynote: Dr. Liliana Rivera

Sandoval

 

White Dwarf

Outbursts in ultracompact white dwarf binaries: powerful tools to understand their interaction processes

11:40–12:00

 

Rick Diz

 

Spectroscopy

 

Comparison of the 3D Printed Spectroscopes LowSpec and StarEx: Design, Construction, and Performance

12:00 p.m.–2:00

Lunch Break

 

 

2:00–2:35 p.m. MST

(UTC: 21:00–21:35)

Keynote: Dr. Misty Bentz*

Black Hole

Measuring the Masses of Monster Black Holes

2:40–3:00

 

Dr. Tom Esposito*

 

exoplanet

 

Transiting Exoplanet Science Results from Citizen Astronomers with the  Global Unistellar Network

3:00–3:20

 

Dr. Robert T. Zellem

 

exoplanet

 

Exoplanet Watch:  Inviting Citizen Scientists to Observe Transiting Exoplanets

3:20–3:40

Coffee Break

 

 

3:40–4:00

Stephen Cook

Binary

No Longer Eclipsing--the Strange Case of RS Crateris

4:00–4:20

 

Anne M. Hedlund

 

Binary/pulsator

 

Double-Pulsator `Hidden’ Binaries: New Targets for Studying Classical and  Solar-like Oscillations

4:20–4:40

 

Dr. Joyce A. Guzik

 

Pulsator/binary

 

A Visit to a Few High-Amplitude Delta Scuti Stars

7:00–10:00 p.m.

Closing banquet

 Ironwood Ballroom

 

 

 

Monday, November 7--Workshop:

Advanced Use of AstroImageJ for Exoplanet Observing with Dennis Conti! 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. MST.

(Please note: no events will take place on November 8)

 

New to the Annual Meeting: The Arlo Landolt Award

During our 2022 Annual Meeting, the AAVSO begins a new tradition: the Arlo U.
Landolt Lecture. This lecture celebrates the memory of Dr. Landolt, who was both a
brilliant scientist and a gentleman beloved by the AAVSO community. His lifetime of
work has dramatically increased our understanding of the cosmos.
The honor of presenting this prestigious lecture will be awarded each year to a
prominent astronomer whose research expands upon Dr. Landolt’s accomplishments.

The 2022 Arlo Landolt Award recipient and guest speaker: Dr. Arne Henden!

Dr. Arne Henden received his doctorate from Indiana University, and subsequently worked for Goddard Space Flight Center, The Ohio State University, and the U.S. Naval Observatory as an instrumentation specialist. For the last decade of his career, he served as the director of the AAVSO. He retired to New Hampshire, where he currently runs several automated telescopes. Dr. Henden is the author of a textbook and several hundred scientific articles, and has given lectures worldwide.
Dr. Henden will be discussing special elements of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS). APASS was started from discussions with Arlo Landolt, and was awarded an NSF grant based on his support of the project. All-sky calibration is necessary for the AAVSO to provide comparison stars for targets of interest, and APASS was designed to meet that goal.  Arne will highlight the early history of the all-sky calibration project, as well as comparisons with other surveys. He will also announce the status of DR11, the next formal release of APASS. Dr. Henden will then conclude by describing the new XPASS and APASS2 projects, with their all-sky completion and bright-star extension, along with volunteer opportunities for helping with the survey.

Questions? Email aavso@aavso.org