Posters
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Double Star Resources on the Internet
Mr Andrew James
In the last few decades the advent of the Internet has made resources available so that amateurs are able to mine data and contribute greatly to serious research. Such possibilities are also true for double star observations, imaging, physical measures, and analysing historical data.
The poster lists some of the available resources and highlights examples of how original and important contributions can be made to the science of double stars.
Andrew James is a Sydney amateur astronomer who has made various presentations at several NACAA since 1980. His specialist interests include double stars and planetary nebulae. He is currently working on the discovery and observations of double stars made in Australia during the 19th Century. His presentations here are as an independent free-lance amateur astronomer unattached from the Societies.
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Equatorial Eclipsing Binaries Project
Dr Thomas Richards,
Variable Stars South
The EEB Project (leader: Tom Richards) is a joint collaboration between Variable Stars South and the Variable Star Section of the British Astronomical Association, to study some neglected Algol-type eclipsing binaries near the celestial equator. The project has over a dozen observers from four countries who have been using visual, DSLR and CCD instrumentation.
The poster will present results to date on the observed stars, together with commentary on problems, techniques and work still to be done. Information will be supplied on how new observers can join the project and the equipment and skills they will need.
Tom's primary research interest is variable stars, in particular eclipsing binaries. In 2009 he was appointed Director of the Variable Star Section of the RASNZ, now called Variable Stars South. Tom was awarded the Murray Geddes Prize of the Royal Astronomical Society of NZ in 1959 and the Berenice Page Medal of the Astronomical Society of Australia in 2006, for his research work as an amateur astronomer. He is a past president of the Astronomical Society of Victoria.