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New Member Summary October 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006

New Member Summary October 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006. Annual: 31 Sustaining: 3 ======================== Members from US: 24 Members from Abroad: 10 (from 8 countries) ======================== TOTAL New Members: 34. All Current AAVSO Members by Type.

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New Member Summary October 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006

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  1. New Member SummaryOctober 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006 Annual: 31 Sustaining: 3 ======================== Members from US: 24 Members from Abroad: 10 (from 8 countries) ======================== TOTAL New Members: 34

  2. All Current AAVSO Members by Type Total Members: 1,161

  3. AAVSO Members by Country 1,161 Total in 44 Countries ARGENTINA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA CAYMAN ISLANDS/BWI CHILE CHINA DENMARK EGYPT ENGLAND FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HONG KONG HUNGARY INDIA IRELAND ISRAEL ITALY JAPAN MALTA NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA RUSSIA SCOTLAND SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH KOREA SPAIN SRI LANKA SWEDEN SWITZERLAND TAIWAN TURKEY UKRAINE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED STATES

  4. Membership Status ChangesOctober 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006 Annual to Sustaining: 0 Sustaining to Annual: 8 Resigned from Membership: 12

  5. Deceased Members and Friends William B. Whiddon - San Pedro, CA Longtime AAVSO Member, founding member of SBAS - The South Bay Astronomical Society (Redondo Beach, CA). William passed away in October of 2005 due to complications from acute leukemia. He taught astronomy labs at the North Texas observatory before joining TRW (later acquired by Northrop Grumman Space Technology). He earned a graduate certificate in astronautical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and for most of his career worked as a systems engineer on satellite programs. At the time of his death he was chief engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope. With his wife, Nina Whiddon, he photographed total solar eclipses throughout the world, including the 2003 eclipse over Antarctica. They returned to Antarctica in 2005 with a meteorite search team and traveled to the South Pole. One of Whiddon’s photographs of Comet Hale-Bopp appears in Robert Burnham’s book Great Comets.

  6. April 08 2005 TSE

  7. April 08 2005 TSE

  8. Fall 2006 Meeting Place: Newton, MA Date: October 27-28, 2006

  9. Upcoming Meetings Spring 2007: Calgary, AB (RASC) Fall 2007: MMO Spring 2008: UK (BAA) Spring 2011: Boston (AAS)

  10. AAVSO Semiannual ReportOctober 2005 - March 2006 Arne Henden May 6, 2006

  11. Highlights - 1 • Addition of Lennard Dahlmark’s 19K observations to the ID • Alpha version of the MySQL relational database version of the ID • Beta version of the ACP • Beta version of VSX • Beta version of blue & gold

  12. Highlights - 2 • Responded to 891 requests for AAVSO data • Processed PEP data and merged portions with ID • Created DVDs of HEA3 • Formed the E/PO committee • More visual observing manual translations

  13. Highlights - 3 • Initiated many observing campaigns • Published 1 issue of the JAAVSO • Published newsletters, eyepiece views, CCD views, alert notices, solar bulletins, etc. • Submitted several papers containing AAVSO data • Visit to BAA/VSS

  14. AAVSO Charts Online The most popular day for downloading charts:Saturday The most popular hour for downloading charts:12pm EST Downloaded Charts About51,724Total Charts The 5 most popular stars (in order): TU Cas, X And, U Ori, Omi Cet, Delta Cep

  15. Charts DownloadedOctober 1, 2005 – March 31, 2006

  16. Light Curve Generator Curves plotted from Oct 05 – Mar 06:77,006 curves Plots per day:423 Most popular stars plotted RS Oph, SS Cyg,NSV 21, TU Cas,R Leo

  17. Website Activity Recorded from 10/2005 to 03/2006 Total Web Pages Downloaded: 1,364,210 Average Pages Downloaded: 7,496 per day or ~1 every 10 sec Average Data Transferred per day: 1 GB Number of Unique Visitors: 152,579 Average Unique Visitors per day: 838 Most Active Day: Wednesday Most Active Time: 4 pm EST Most Inactive Day: Saturday Most Inactive Time: 1 am EST

  18. Monthly Download Statistics

  19. Top Ten Downloaded Pages(Excluding the Home Page)

  20. Password protected section of website completed Members have “gold” access to ALL features. Observers have “blue” access to submit observations (only) WebObs in first stage of alpha testing ‘Gold’ features coming soon: -- access to robotic telescope -- access member info db (opt in) -- access fast lcg

  21. PEP Data Archives November 1983 through December 2005 • Total Number of Observations 26,739 • Total Number of Observers 60 • Total Number of Stars 72

  22. The Variable Star Index (VSX) • Program by Chris Watson • Search for variable stars near given coordinates (most available catalogs) • Modify variable star info (period, type,…) • Add new variable stars • Links to other sites (images, light curves) • Presentation at SAS/2006 • Future!

  23. Automated Chart Plotter • Program by Michael Koppleman (Clockwork Active Media Systems) • Beta release - now! • Full interactive chart generation, multiple scales, orientation • Easy to add new objects • Will replace all of the web charts

  24. Robotic Telescopes • Membership benefit • Will be part of upcoming members-only section of website • Observation request form will be available shortly

  25. Sonoita Ridge Observatory (SRO) • Operated by John Gross; partners Dirk Terrell, Walt Cooney and AAVSO • C14, Paramount, STL-1001E

  26. SRO Results • Campaign on W Vir • Calibration of GRB fields • Calibration of LPV fields • Calibration of novae fields • Monitoring for Bill Dillon, Michael Sallman, Dan Taylor

  27. Elysa Hope(Oregon Episcopal School) - finalist for Intel’s Science Talent Search. Student of Rosa Hemphill, TOPS teacher; Janet suggested sunspot studies.

  28. Science Fair Projects • Wilhelm Richter’s (ASMSA) students • Amna Malik - V371 Per, unusual RR Lyr • Trey Pettit - TU Cas • NFO (24” Cass • Silver City NM) • http://www.nfo.edu

  29. Other Richter Students • Heejun Woo: The Blazhko Effect of RR Gem (2nd place regional) • Briac Riddle: Refining the Distance and Period of VX Persei (3rd place regional, 1st place junior) • Malik, Petit projects being continued by new students

  30. AAVSO PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Journal of the AAVSO Edited by Charles A. Whitney, with assistance from Elizabeth o. Waagen, Michael Saladyga, and Matthew Templeton Vol. 33, No. 2: Preprint nos. 11 - 17 and 24, 28, 30 • eJAAVSO: Vol. 34, No. 1: Preprint nos. 18, 23, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35 Vol. 33, No. 2: Preprint nos. 20, 31, 36 • AAVSO Bulletin 69: 2006: Predicted Dates of Maxima and Minima of 561 Long Period Variables Prepared by Elizabeth O. Waagen

  31. AAVSO PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • AAVSO Special Notice, Nos. 1 – 9 Prepared by Aaron Price • AAVSO Special MyNewsFlash: EX Hya appears to be in outburst Prepared by Elizabeth Waagen • AAVSO Alert Notice, Nos. 327 – 338 Prepared by Elizabeth Waagen and Aaron Pricce, with assistance by Kerriann Malatesta

  32. AAVSO PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • AAVSO Eyepiece Views, Nos. 311 – 313 Prepared by Gamze Menali with contributions from Aaron Price and Mike Simonsen. • AAVSO Manual for Visual Observing of Variable Stars - French Edition, January 2006 Translated by Dominique Naillon, edited by Gamze Menali and Sara J. Beck • AAVSO Variable Star of the Season (AAVSO website) Prepared by Kerriann Malatesta (Winter 2006) and Pamela Gay (Spring 2006)

  33. AAVSO PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Observed Minima Timings of Eclipsing Binaries, No. 10 Prepared by Marvin E. Baldwin and Gerry Samolyk • AAVSO 2006 Ephemeris for Eclipsing Binaries Prepared by Marvin E. Baldwin and Gerry Samolyk • AAVSO 2006 Ephemeris for RR Lyrae Stars Prepared by Marvin E. Baldwin and Gerry Samolyk

  34. AAVSO PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • AAVSO Solar Bulletin, Vol. 61, Nos. 9 - 12; Vol. 62, Nos. 1 - 3 Prepared by Carl E. Feehrer; SID Reports by Michael Hill • AAVSO Newsletter, No. 32 Edited by Travis Searle

  35. AAVSO Staff PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Boyd, D., Oksanen A., and Henden, A., “Measurement of the orbital and superhump periods of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable SDSS J170213.26+322954.1”, J. British Astronomical Association. (accepted). • Green, D. W. E., Waagen, E. O., “V1118 Orionis”, IAU Circular 8626; 2005. • Green, D. W. E., Waagen, E. O., “Nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud”, IAU Circular 8636; 2005.

  36. AAVSO Staff PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Green, D. W. E., Waagen, E. O., “RS Ophiuchi”, IAU Circular 8688; 2006. • Henden, A. A, “Pro-Am Collaboration and the AAVSO, Astrophysics of Variable Stars”, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 999, C. Sterken and C. Aerts; 2006. • Malatesta, K. H., Beck S. J., Menali G., Waagen E.O., “The AAVSO Data Validation Project”, eJAAVSO (accepted for publication, pre-print no.31).

  37. AAVSO Staff PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Price. A., et al., “Planetary Transits of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey Candidate TrES-1b”, JAAVSO, Volume 34; 2005. • Price, A., Allen, S. L., Fhima, A., Garcia, J., Mahabal, A., Seaman, R., Williams, R., “The VOEvent Alert Messaging System”, presented at the 2007th Meeting of the AAS, No. 34.02. • Templeton, M. R. et al., “The Recently Discovered Dwarf Nova System ASASJ002511+1217.2: A New WZ Sagittae Star”, PASP 118, 236.

  38. AAVSO Staff PublicationsOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Templeton, M. R., and Price, A., “Campaign 04: AAVSO Observing Campaigns in 2004”, JAAVSO; 2006 (in press). • Templeton, M. R., et al. “Preliminary Results from the AAVSO Infrared Photometry Group”, presented at the 207th Meeting of the AAS (AAS 207, 122.17); 2006.

  39. Publications with AAVSO AssistanceOctober 2005 – March 2006 • Balman, S., Retter, A., and Bos, M., “The Detection of a 3.5-h Period in the Classical Noval Velorum 1999 (V382 Vel) and the Long Term Behavior of the Nova Light Curve”, AJ; 2006. (accepted). • Neustroev V.V., Zharikov S. V., and Michel R., “Simultaneous photometry and echelle-spectroscopy of the dwarf nova BZ Ursae Majoris during the 2005 January outburst”, MNRAS. (accepted for publication).

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