Click on a presenter's name for their bio, and their talk title for the corresponding abstract.
Each registration hyperlink is for its own respective online event.
Webinars: two per month, each featuring one or two figures in astronomy research. Each talk is about 45 minutes, followed by a Q & A session.
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.
January
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Saturday’s Date |
Presenter(s) |
Webinar Title(s) |
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9
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Shadows of Circumplanetary Disks: J1407 and J0600
Variability in young stars: From the AAVSO to X-rays
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23
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Kilonova-catcher project at GRANDMA and how AAVSO observers can help
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February
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Saturday’s Date |
Presenter(s) |
Webinar and How-to Hour Title(s) |
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6
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How-to with Blake Crosby |
Introduction to variable stars and why we observe them
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13
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Using AstroImageJ for Exoplanet Analysis
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27
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Stellar Rotation in Young Clusters using K2 and TESS
Why is it important to observe/monitor LPVs?
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March
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Saturday’s Date |
Presenter(s) |
Webinar and How-to Hour Title(s) |
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6 |
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13 |
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Using AAVSO photometry to understand and characterize variable giant stars
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27 |
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Classifying Algol C, the Non-Eclipsing Member of the beta Persei System
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Questions? Email aavso@aavso.org