Variable Star Section Meeting, Saturday 25th Oct

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  • #631562
    Jeremy Shears
    Participant

    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

    #631577
    Dawson
    Participant

    I’ll be there with a load of secondhand books for sale, so bring your money.

    James Dawson
    Society for the History of Astronomy

    #631596
    Nick James
    Participant

    It’s a good programme and I would normally come along but it is near new moon and there is a certain comet in the sky so I’ll miss it this year. I hope it goes well.

    #631608
    Dr Paul Leyland
    Participant

    I’ll be there with a load of secondhand books for sale, so bring your money.

    I am often in the market for old atlases, especially editions of Norton’s not yet in my collection. Don’t know if this will influence your choice of books to bring.

    Paul

    #631609
    Dawson
    Participant

    Paul, I know you are after various editions of Norton’s which I look out for, but none so far. I’ll see what else I’ve got.

    James

    #631632
    Paul G. Abel
    Participant

    I’ll be coming along to it- looks like a good event.

    #631633
    Dr Paul Leyland
    Participant

    Paul, I know you are after various editions of Norton’s which I look out for, but none so far. I’ll see what else I’ve got.

    James

    Back when I was an undergraduate another member of OUAS had a copy of “Webbs Atlas of the Stars”. It disappeared and the erstwhile owner regretted it greatly.

    I have always wanted a copy of my own but they are almost unobtainable now. When they do appear on the market the prices are ridiculous — several hundred USD/EUR/GBP — and I refuse to pay that much. I own a good number of atlases, old and new, for which I have paid much less than that.

    If anyone has a copy of Bečvář’s Australis at a reasonable price I am also interested. His atlases are already in my possession and I have a spare copy of Eclipticalis if anyone is interested.

    #631640
    Jeremy Shears
    Participant

    One week today!

    #631827
    Andy Wilson
    Keymaster

    I have uploaded the meeting videos to the BAA YouTube channel. I provide links below for easy access. I divided the meeting into the 3 sessions, and in the YouTube video descriptions there are links so you can jump to each of the talks.
    Unfortunately there were a few IT issues on the day so the recordings are not perfect. The first few minutes of the introduction were missed due to a recording issue, and then one of the microphones failed for the start of Paul Leyland’s talk. I have left all of Paul’s talk as you can still see the slides before I swapped his microphone.

    Session 1 (morning) – https://youtu.be/XIIO4Wbi6Rw
    Session 2 (after lunch) – https://youtu.be/GmV6uenWiUM
    Session 3 (after tea) – https://youtu.be/REQ3deLjfc8

    Here is the revised schedule for the day.
    10:30 – Welcome and introduction. Director
    10:50 – Richard Sargent – Hind’s 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

    Best wishes,
    Andy

    #631829
    Jeremy Shears
    Participant

    Wow that was quick, Andy. Thank you!

    #631837
    Jeremy Shears
    Participant

    A number of people have requested sight of the web resources Chris Lloyd gave in his presentation on smart scopes for VS astronomy. I have uploaded Chris’ presentation to the VSS 2025 meeting page in PDF format: https://britastro.org/event/variable-star-section-meeting-2025

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