BAAVSS Section Meeting

 

Saturday June 21st 2014

 

15 Priory Street

York

PDF files of Powerpoint Presentations highlighted

Morning Session, chaired by Roger Pickard

10:30 - 10:35   Welcome and Introduction,   Roger Pickard, Director

10:35 - 11:20   Martin Lunn   John Goodricke and Edward Piggot, The Fathers of Variable Star Astronomy

11:20 - 11:50   John Toone - The Life of Albert Jones

11:50 – 12:10   Andy Wilson - The VSS Database

 

Afternoon Session, chaired by Gary Poyner

14:00 - 15:00   Prof. Boris Gaensicke  -   Eclipsing Binaries: Something Different

15:00 - 15:30   Robin Leadbeater -  Nova Del 2013

16:15 - 16:45   Dr David Boyd - The asynchronous Polar V1432 Aquilae and its path back to synchronism

16:45 - 17:30  Short Presentations     Stan Waterman, Dr. Jeremy Shears, John Toone & Dr. David Boyd

Selection of photographs taken during the meeting. Click for larger image.  (G. Poyner)

 

 

                                                                                    

Attendees gather                    Jeremy Shears, Andy Crossland, Melvyn Taylor                  Martin Lunn

 

                                                                                 

Andy Wilson                                                  John Toone                                           Prof. Boris Gaensicke

 

                                                                                   

Roger Pickard & Bruce Sumner       Jeremy Shears & Boris Gaensicke                   'Nearly' all of the speakers