Schedule

Webinars: two per month, each about 45 minutes, followed by Q & A

How-to Hours: one per month, each introducing a specific practical aspect of variable star astronomy. Each hour starts out with a 30-minute talk, followed by a roughly 30-minute Q & A period. Topics are selected based on the feedback from our community on on past webinars.
 

October

Saturday’s Date

Presenter(s)

Webinar Title(s)

 

2

 

 

How-to with Gary Billings

 

 

Eclipsing Binaries and O-C diagrams

 

 

9

 

1) Dr. Emily Levesque

2) Dariusz Kubicki  

 

 

1) Betelgeuse is pretty cool: cosmic questions for our naked-eye neighbor

2) International Observation Campaign of Eclipse of EE Cephei in 2020

 

 

23

 

 

1) Dr. Nancy Morrison

 

 

1) How to Write an Astronomical Research Paper 

 

November

Saturday’s Date

Presenter(s)

Webinar Title(s)

 

6

 

 

(No How-to Hour--our Annual Meeting is being held!)

 

 

(No How-to Hour--our Annual Meeting is being held!)

 

13

 

 

1) Dr. David Turner

2) Dr. John Thorstensen

 

1) The Value of Continuous Visual Observations of Variable Stars for How We Perceive the Universe (What I Learned about the Purkinje Effect from Cataract Surgery)

2) Cataclysmic Variables in the Age of Surveys: What can we do?

 

 

27

 

 

 

1) Dr. Kristine Larsen

2) Gabriel Murawski

 

1) Seeing Spots (Safely): Getting Started in Solar Observing

2) The MGAB catalog of variable stars

 

December

Saturday’s Date

Presenter(s)

Webinar Title(s)

 

4

 

 

How to with Michael Poxon

 

A Visit to the Young Stellar Object Zoo

 

 

11

 

Dr. Arne Henden

 

 

Science with the AAVSOnet Faint Star Monitors

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