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
Preliminary Programme (Subject to change)
10:00 – Doors open
10:30 – Welcome and introduction. Director
10:50 – Gary Poyner (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 (Warwick) – CV talk
17:35 – Closing remarks – Director
17.40 – Close
Venue
The Humfrey Rooms, 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton NN1 1LD