AAVSO Annual Member Meeting 2025 @AAVSOHQ

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

The AAVSO Executive Director, board members, and JAAVSO editor-in-chief host a Member Meeting. They report on the activities of the AAVSO, financial status, and new developments within the organization.

*Timestamps:*
00:58 President’s Report | Richard Berry
11:11 In Memoriam
12:07 Reading and Approval of 2024 Minutes
17:02 Treasurer's Report
39:46 JAAVSO Editor in Chief Report
56:14 Election Results
1:00:07 Membership Report
1:41:43 Awards
2:07:00 How AAVSO is Adapting to the Sky Survey Era

$AAVSO How-to Hour: Spectography on a Budget [Closed captioning for this webinar is available by clicking the [ cc ] or [ . . . ] icons above. In our April 1, 2021 How-to Hour, guest instructor Lauren Herrington reveals how you can use the drift scanning method to record scientifically useful spectra of tens of thousands of stars using nothing but a camera, diffraction grating, and an untracked telescope. She also discusses how to optimize your resolution, so that you can use your slitless grating to record fine details, such as the blueshifted absorption lines originating in the torrential stellar wind of P Cygni. Lastly, she demonstrates how to process and calibrate your spectra, and how to submit your processed spectra to the AAVSOs database. No prior knowledge is necessary, but viewers will likely find it beneficial to know ahead of time what the terms spectrum, absorption, and emission mean as they relate to astronomy, and how to operate a simple telescope. Recommended pre-view reading: http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/spec_lines/spec_lines.html Explore AAVSO and find out how YOU can make a meaningful contribution to science at aavso.org (our Spectroscopy Observing Section is at https://www.aavso.org/spectroscopy-observing-section)$

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