Past Amateur Achievement Recipients
Designed to "recognize significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity."
Year |
Name |
Home |
Field |
2011 |
London, England |
Advancing the fields of extra-solar planet research and stellar astrophysics |
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2010 |
Allan Rahill on behalf of the Clear Sky Chart team (Rahill and Attilla Danko) |
Canada |
Adapted Canadian Meteorological Centre forecast products for the purpose of planning observing sessions with highly accurate high resolution point forecasts of cloud cover, transparency, seeing, darkness, wind, temperature and humidity over North and Central America |
| 2009 |
Batavia, Illinois |
Developing CCD instrumentation and a worldwide sky survey program |
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| 2008 |
Soquel, California |
CCD Imaging |
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| 2007 |
Heathcote, NSW, Australia |
RCrb stars/Variable Star Monitoring |
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| 2006 |
Czech Republic |
Visual and CCD Observations of Variable Stars/Comets |
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| 2005 |
Tucson, Arizona |
Light Pollution |
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| 2004 |
United Kingdom |
Imaging and Image Processing |
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| 2003 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Near-Earth Asteroids |
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| 2001 |
Sumoto, Japan |
Computing Comet Orbits |
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| 2000 |
Stittsville, Ontario |
Deep Sky Imaging/Hyakutake |
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| 1999 |
Warren Offutt |
Cloudcroft, NM |
Transneptunian Objects |
| 1998 |
Albert F.A.L. Jones |
New Zealand |
Variable Stars/Comets |
| 1997 |
Edward A. Halbach |
Estes Park, CO |
Variable Stars/Occultations |
| 1996 |
M. Daniel Overbeek |
Edenvale, South Africa |
Variable Stars |
| 1995 |
Donald Parker |
Coral Gables, FL |
Planetary Imaging |
| 1994 |
Walter Haas |
Las Cruces, NM |
ALPO Founder |
| 1993 |
David Levy |
Tucson, AZ |
Comets |
| 1992 |
Richard & Helen Lines |
Phoenix, AZ |
Photoelectric Photometry of Variable Stars |
| 1991 |
Otto Kippes |
Wuxburg, Germany |
Asteroid Orbits |
| 1990 |
Oscar Monnig |
Fort Worth, TX |
Meteorites |
| 1989 |
Paul Baize |
Gouville-Sur-Mer, France |
Double Stars |
| 1988 |
Jack Newton |
Victoria, BC, Canada |
Astrophotography |
| 1987 |
Clinton Ford |
Wilton, CT |
Variable Stars |
| 1986 |
Jean Meeus |
Erps-Kwerps, Belgium |
Computational Astronomy |
| 1985 |
Gregg Thompson & Robert Evans |
Springwood, Australia & Hazelbrook, Australia |
Supernovae |
| 1984 |
Russell Genet |
Fairborn, OH |
Photoelectric Photometry |
| 1983 |
J.U. Gunter |
Durham, NC |
Asteroids |
| 1982 |
Ben Mayer |
Los Angeles, CA |
Problicom |
| 1981 |
George Alcock |
Peterborough, England |
Novae/Comets |
| 1980 |
Frank Bateson |
Greerton, New Zealand |
Variable Stars |
| 1979 |
James McMahon |
Ridgecrest, CA |
Occultations |