Variable Star Section Meeting, Saturday 25th Oct

[Jeremy Shears]

A reminder that the VSS meeting takes place on Saturday 25th October. All are welcome.

The venue is The Humfrey Rooms, 10 Castilian Terrace, Northampton NN1 1LD and our hosts are Northamptonshire Natural History Society.

Further details here: https://britastro.org/event/variable-star-section-meeting-2025

Programme

10:00 – Doors open
10:30 – Welcome and introduction. Director
10:50 – Gary Poyner – V1363 Cyg: a post-nova CV
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

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