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(meteorobs) AAS Convention: Pro-Am Meetings
Greetings;
I thought you folks might enjoy browsing through the session program from
the Professional-Amateur meetings held at the American Astronomical Society
(AAS) convention last week. The meetings were a nice success, and more are
planned for the future, as well as similar meetings at the Division for
Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting next time around.
Here is an excerpt from the printed program. My scanner may have goofed in
a few places, but it should be readable:
190th American Astronomical Society (AAS) Convention
Session Program, June 10, 1997
** Session 21: Amateurs & Professionals: Collaborators in the
New Age of Electronic Astronomy - I
-- Oral, Tuesday, 8:30am-12:30pm, North Main Hall C/D--
* The Pro-Am Experience: 65 Years an Amateur, 45 Years a Professional
W. Liller (Inst. I. Newton)
* Current AAVSO Frontiers
E. O. Waagen, J. A. Mattei (American Association of Variable Star Observers)
* The CCD Program of the American Association of Variable Star Observers
G. Walker (American Association of Variable Star Observers)
* Introducing the Benson Prize for Discovery Methods of Near Earth Objects
by Amateurs
J. W. Benson (Space Development Corp.)
* Early Detection of Nearby Supernova with both Neutrinos and Eyeballs
A. T. Habig (Boston Univ. Particle Astrophysics Group)
* Taking the Observatory to the Astronomer
T. M. Bisque (Software Bisque)
* The Time is Ripe!
R. Fried (Braeside Obs.)
* Amateur Astronomers and the Hubble Space Telescope
M. Mutchler (STScl)
* Recycling Hardware for New Programs
T. Puckett (Puckett Obs.)
* Research Experiences for 14 Year Olds: preliminary report on the 'Sky
Explorer' pilot
program at Springfield (MA) High School of Science and Technology
G. E. Tucker (Boston Engineering Services)
* High Precision CCD Measurements of Double Star Parameters
G. A. Elliott (Holland Center), D. D. Meisel (SUNY-Geneseo)
** Session 30: Amateurs & Professionals: Collaborators in the
New Age of Electronic Astronomy
-- Display Session, Tuesday, 10:00am-6:30pm, South Main Hall --
* We Want to Help!
D. F. Trombino (Davis Memorial Solar Obs.)
* Cataclysmic Variables with the CBA
J. Patterson, J. Kemp, D. Skillman, D. Harvey, T. Vanmunster, L. Jensen, R.
Fried, P.
McGee, S. Walker, A. Retter (Center for Backyard Astrophysics (CBA))
* Back To The Future: Hunting Astroids From The Backyard
D. di Cicco (Sky Publishing Corp.)
* Example of a Fruitful Partnership: The Millennium Star Atlas
R. Sinnott (Sky Publishing Corp.)
* Surveying the Southern Skies with a Wide-angle Lens
J. Gaustad (Swarthmore College), W. Rosing, G. Chen (Las Cumbres Obs.), P.
McCullough
* Stardial - an autonomous astronomical camera on the WWW
P. R. McCullough (UIUC), U. Thakkar (NCSA, Urbana-Champaign)
* A Small Amateur Research Team Does Precision Science from the Heartland
R. P. Wilds (Heartland Astronomical Research Team (HART))
* Backyard Research on Cataclysmic Variables and X-ray Binaries by a
Consortium of
Professional
and Amateur Astronomers
T. Vanmunster (Center for Backyard Astrophysics Belgium)
* A Backyard Astronomy Sample: Photometry of the D Q Her Star RX J0558.0+5353
D. R. Skillman (Center for Backyard Astrophysics, Maryland Station)
* TASS - The Amateur Sky Survey
T. F. Droege, C. Albertson, G. Gombert, M. Gutzwiller, N. W. Molhant, H.
Johnson, d.
Skyarc, R. J. Wickersham (TASS (Amateurs)), M. W. Richmond (Princeton
University), P.
Rybski (U of WI, Whitewater), A. Henden (USRA/USNO), N. Beser, M.
Pittinger, B. Kluga
(JHU APL (Amateurs))
* GNAT: A Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes
E. Craine, D. Crawford, R. Culver, R. Angione (GNAT, Inc.)
* Amateurs Working with Professionals: The Myriad Ways
C. C. Petersen (Sky Publishing Corp.), W. Liller (Inst. I. Newton), J. C.
Brandt, M. Snow
(LASP, U. Colorado, Boulder)
* CCD Photomerry of Gliese 372
T. F. Ramseyer, C. Davis, C. Lasley, C. Leonard, A. Portoni (U. Central
Arkansas)
* Precision Time Measurements of Galilean Satellite Eclipses using Small
Format CCD's
D. F. Collins (Warren Wilson College), A. Mallama (Hughes STX Corp.), P.
Nelson, J. Park
(Ellinbank Obs., Australia)
** Session 33: Amateurs & Professionals: Collaborators in the
New Age of Electronic Astronomy - II
-- Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-5:30pm, North Main Hall CiD --
* Wavelet and Fourier Analysis of Radiometeor Rate Data
D. D. Meisel (SUNY-Geneseo), J. Richardson (Poplar Springs Radiometeor
Station), A.
Mallama (Hughes STX Corp.)
* An Amateur Radiometeor Network and its Scientific Results
J. E. Richardson (Poplar Springs Radio Meteor Station), D. D. Meisel
(SUNY-Geneseo)
* Planetary Imaging to the Max
D.C. Parker (Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers)
* Automated Astrometric and Photometric TASS Data Reduction Techniques
G. Gombert (Miami Valley Astronomical Society)
* First Results from The Amateur Sky Survey
M. Richmond (Princeton U.)
* An Amateur/Professional Connection: The Center for Backyard Astrophysics
D. R. Skillman (Center for Backyard Astrophysics, Maryland Station)
* Astronomical Research with the MicroObservatory Net
K. Brecher (Boston U.), P. Sadler, R. Gould, S. Leiker, P. Antonucci, F.
Deutsch (CFA)
* Long term Monitoring of Gravitational lenses
M. Serra-Ricart, A. Oscoz (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
* Preserving the Future of Small Observatories
T. D. Oswalt (Fla. Tech.)
* Amateur-Professional Relations: What Now?
D. L. Crawford (IDA, Inc.)
End of excerpt.
Take care, everyone,
Jim
James Richardson
Graceville, Florida
richardson@digitalexp.com
Operations Manager / Radiometeor Project Coordinator
American Meteor Society (AMS)
http://www.serve.com/meteors/
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