AAVSO 100th Spring Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-26, 2011
Variable Star Observer Awards recognizing milestones through September 2010 Award/recipient Affiliation* Country Interval Total
Over 450,000 Visual Observations*
Albert Jones 14 New Zealand 1960-2010 463,657
Over 175,000 Visual Observations*
Rod Stubbings 14 Australia 1997-2010 184,763
Over 150,000 Visual Observations*
Georg Comello 04 Netherlands 1966-2010 151,898
Over 75,000 Visual Observations*
Attila Kosa-Kiss 03 Romania 1976-2010 79,377
Jose Ripero Osorio 06 Spain 1978-2010 78,412
Glenn Chaple USA 1980-2010 78,373
Sandor Papp 03 Hungary 1983-2010 77,167
Frank Vohla 02 Germany 1990-2010 76,212
Roger Kolman USA 1962-2010 75,000
Over 50,000 Visual Observations*
Patrick Abbott 27 Canada 1982-2010 51,363
Over 25,000 Visual Observations*
Alfredo Glez-Herrera Spain 1990-2010 36,460
Christopher Spratt 27 Canada 1961-2010 33,092
Guy Hurst 20 UK 1974-2010 29,181
Over 10,000 Visual Observations*
Patrick Wils 05 Belgium 1976-2010 14,088
Lajos Bartha 03 Hungary 1949-2010 13,108
Michael Kohl Switzerland 1966-2010 11,895
Claude Peguet 01 France 1981-2010 11,247
Richard Tyson USA 1972-2010 10,722
Jozsef Erdei 03 Hungary 1995-2010 10,646
Over 1,000 Visual Observations*
Tony Markham 20 UK 2009-2010 2,845
Salvador Aguirre Mexico 2006-2010 1,863
Jan Starzomski Poland 2005-2010 1,498
Carlos Adib Brazil 2009-2010 1,497
Gyorgy Soponyai 03 Hungary 2008-2010 1,401
Paolo Siliprandi 18 Italy 2005-2010 1,361
Over 100 Visual Observations*
Gonzalo Beltran Bolivia 2008-2010 913
Alan Baldwin 14 New Zealand 2009-2010 847
Kim Pukero Finland 2008-2010 695
Artemy Kilin Russia 2010-2010 493
Brad Young USA 2003-2010 341
Jean Pierre Sciolla 01 France 2009-2010 303
Walter Basso Canada 2010-2010 288
Robert Schippers Netherlands 2009-2010 275
Christian Martin USA 2009-2010 271
Kostas Panourakis Greece 2008-2010 242
Maurice Fitzgerald USA 2009-2010 235
Daryel Stager USA 2010-2010 233
Denise Terpstra USA 2010-2010 230
Bohdan Widla Poland 2009-2010 190
Alexander Oertlin 02 Germany 2009-2010 186
Jesus Blanco Gonzalez Spain 2009-2010 162
Ryan Fuller USA 2009-2010 161
Marcel Popescu Romania 2009-2010 161
Robert Wilson USA 2008-2010 153
Robin Andersson Sweden 2010-2010 137
Glen Schrader Australia 2009-2010 137
Michael Hessom USA 2006-2010 131
Thomas Zimmermann 02 Germany 2009-2010 129
Gerardo Jimenez 06 Spain 2001-2010 128
Christopher Wyatt Australia 2008-2010 123
Dirk Lehmann Germany 2002-2010 108
Shervin Taheran USA 2009-2010 107
Linda O'Connor USA 2009-2010 104
Eugene Crist USA 2010-2010 100
Over 300,000 CCD Observations*
Ray Tomlin USA 2006-2010 395,018
Robert James USA 1953-2010 366,142
Over 200,000 CCD Observations*
Bart Staels 05 Belgium 1994-2010 239,908
Over 100,000 CCD Observations*
Leroy Snyder USA 1970-2010 154,639
Franz-Josef Hambsch 05 Belgium 2002-2010 131,242
Etienne Morelle 01 France 2005-2006 122,810
David Boyd 20 UK 2003-2010 104,126
Timothy Crawford USA 2001-2010 101,207
Over 50,000 CCD Observations*
Keith Graham USA 1981-2010 90,697
William Goff USA 1981-2010 75,101
Arto Oksanen 17 Finland 2001-2010 70,046
Robert Koff USA 2003-2010 59,459
Peter Nelson Australia 1990-2010 56,719
Over 10,000 CCD Observations*
Chris Stockdale Australia 2004-2010 24,158
Jani Virtanen 17 Finland 1999-2010 11,029
Lienhard Pagel 02 Germany 2009-2010 10,790
Peter Kalajian USA 2009-2010 10,673
Over 1,000 CCD Observations*
Robert Henderson England 2009-2010 8,070
Gary Vander Haagen USA 2006-2010 4,153
Stefano Padovan Spain 2009-2010 4,081
Richard Berg USA 1956-2010 3,535
Mika Luostarinen 17 Finland 2000-2010 3,332
John Menke USA 2007-2010 3,203
Caisey Harlingten England 2010-2010 2,837
Timo Kantola 17 Finland 2009-2010 2,727
Martin Crow 20 UK 2009-2010 1,944
Javier Ruiz Fernandez Spain 1990-2010 1,936
Eric Southgate Australia 2009-2010 1,935
Jari Suomela Finland 2008-2010 1,894
Emery Erdelyi USA 2008-2010 1,788
Maurizio Martinengo Italy 2002-2010 1,415
Barbara Harris USA 2002-2010 1,242
Kevin Paxson USA 2001-2010 1,218
Jeroen Van Wassenhove 05 Belgium 1983-2010 1,206
Michael Sallman USA 2005-2010 1,198
Kirill Sokolovsky 16 Germany 2000-2010 1,089
Mark Salisbury England 2009-2010 1,087
Juda Curto Amigo Spain 2005-2010 1,005
Over 1,000 PEP Observations*
Charles Calia USA 2002-2010 1,095
Over 100 PEP Observations*
Adrian Ormsby USA 2006-2010 270
John Martin USA 2009-2010 132
Over 100 Photographic Observations*
Robert Kaufman Australia 2008-2010 219
* Years include total AAVSO observing interval (not only PEP/CCD/PTG observing).
Total includes only visual or PEP/CCD/PTG observations, depending on award.
These symbols indicate observers are also affiliated with the groups below:
01 Association Francaise des Observateurs d'Étoiles Variables (AFOEV)
02 Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veränderliche Sterne e.V. (BAV) (Germany)
03 Magyar Csillàgaszati Egyesület, Valtózocsillag Szakcsoport (Hungary)
04 Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging Voor Weer-en Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Netherlands)
05 Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, Werkgroep Veranderlijke Sterren (Belgium)
06 Madrid Astronomical Association M1 (Spain)
14 Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Variable Star Section
16 Association of Variable Star Observers "Pleione" (Russia)
17 URSA Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (Finland)
18 Unione Astrofili Italiani (Italy)
20 British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section
27 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada