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| Visual Observing of Variable Stars - an Addict's Story |
| Glenn Chaple |
| Thursday, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:00 PM |
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| Glenn will describe how he got involved in visual variable star work, provide a basic background on the nature of variable stars, include pointers on techniques for observing variable stars, and finish with a list of resources.
Speaker Bio
In Glenn’s words…I’ve been an avid amateur astronomer since the summer of 1963 when a high school friend showed me Saturn through his telescope. I received a BS degree in astronomy from UMass Amherst in 1969, and then worked for two years at the Alice G. Wallace Planetarium in Fitchburg, Mass. From 1974 until my retirement in 2006, I was a middle school science teacher in the Fitchburg and Groton-Dunstable school systems. I co-authored, with Terence Dickinson and Vic Costanzo, the Edmund Mag 6 Star Atlas and wrote the books Exploring With a Telescope (Franklin Watts – 1988) and The Outer Planets (Greenwood Press - 2009). I contributed chapters on double stars to David Eicher’s Deep-sky Observing With Small Telescopes (Enslow Publishers – 1989) and James Muirden’s Sky Watchers Handbook (W.H. Freeman – 1993). Between 1977 and 1987, I wrote a column on double stars for Deep Sky Magazine. From 1982 until 1994, I authored the “What’s Up?” column for the children’s astronomy magazine Odyssey. Since 2002, I’ve been writing the monthly “Observing Basics” column for Astronomy. I’ve been a member of both the Amateur Telescope makers of Boston (currently Vice President) and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) since 1980. In 2006, I joined the Astronomical League, and, in 2011, the Astronomy Outreach Foundation.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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