Variable Star Section Meeting 2025
Saturday 25th Oct 2025
A VSS meeting will take place on Saturday October 25 in Northampton. Doors open 10.00 am. Meeting starts 10.30 and closes by 18.00
We are very fortunate to have Northamptonshire Natural History Society as our hosts again. The venue is The Humfrey Rooms, 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton NN1 1LD.
A light lunch will be provided, as well as tea and coffee. Booking not necessary
The videos of the meeting are available on the BAA YouTube channel. They are divided into the 3 sessions, with bookmark links in the description of the videos that take you to each of the talks.
Programme
10:00 – Doors open
10:30 – Welcome and introduction. Director
10:50 – Richard Sargent – Hinds Variable Nebula
11:20 – Paul Leyland – Observing extragalactic variables
11:50 – Jeremy Shears – Cluster variables in M5
12:20 – Chris Lloyd – Targets for Smart Scopes
12:50 – Lunch
14:15 – Brian Kloppenborg (Remote) – How AAVSO is adapting to the sky survey era
14:45 – David Boyd – Spectroscopy of the massive eclipsing binary VV Cephei
15:15 – Des Loughney – Using the MAST Database to study eclipsing binaries
15:45 – Tea
16:15 – John Toone – 50 years of visual photometry
16.45 – Ingrid Pelisoli (University of Warwick) – Discovering and characterising white dwarf pulsars
17:35 – Closing remarks – Director
17.40 – Close
Venue
The Humfrey Rooms, 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton NN1 1LD