Variable Star Section Meeting 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

Preliminary Programme (Subject to change)

10:00 – Doors open

10:30 – Welcome and introduction. Director

10:50 – Gary Poyner – title tba

11:20 – Paul Leyland – Observing extragalactic variables

11:50 – Richard Sargent – Hinds Variable Nebula

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