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Gordon Myers Amateur Achievement Award

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The Amateur Achievement Award recognizes "significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity."[1] The award, given since 1979, is managed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It consists of $500 and a commemorative plaque, which is presented at the Annual Meeting Awards Banquet. Candidates can be nominated by any astronomer and the nomination should be accompanied by other letters of support. The only exception in its tradition was the year 2002, when the Award Committee, composed of the Board of Directors, did not award any candidate.[1]

Amateur Achievement Award winners

Clinton B. Ford, the 1987 awardee
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Jack Newton (on the right), the 1988 awardee
David Levy, the 1993 awardee
Year Name Home Field
1979 James McMahon  United States Occultations
1980 Frank Bateson  New Zealand Variable stars
1981 George Alcock  United Kingdom Novae/Comets
1982 Ben Mayer  United States Problicom
1983 J. U. Gunter  United States Asteroids
1984 Russell Genet  United States Photoelectric photometry
1985 Gregg Thompson & Robert Evans  Australia Supernovae
1986 Jean Meeus  Belgium Computational astronomy
1987 Clinton B. Ford  United States Variable stars
1988 Jack B. Newton  Canada Astrophotography
1989 Paul Baize  France Double stars
1990 Oscar Monnig  United States Meteorites
1991 Otto Kippes  Germany Asteroid orbits
1992 Richard Lines & Helen Lines  United States Photoelectric photometry of variable stars
1993 David H. Levy  Canada/ United States Comets
1994 Walter H. Haas  United States ALPO founder
1995 Donald Parker  United States Planetary imaging
1996 M. Daniel Overbeek  South Africa Variable stars
1997 Edward A. Halbach  United States Variable stars/occultations
1998 Albert F. A. L. Jones  New Zealand Variable stars/comets
1999 Warren Offutt  United States Trans-Neptunian objects
2000 Paul Boltwood  Canada Deep sky imaging/Hyakutake
2001 Syuichi Nakano  Japan Computing comet orbits
2003 Kyle E. Smalley  United States Near-Earth Asteroids
2004 Nik Szymanek  United Kingdom Imaging and image processing
2005 Tim Hunter  United States Light pollution
2006 Kamil Hornoch  Czech Republic Visual and CCD observations of variable stars/comets
2007 Peter Francis Williams  Australia declines in R Coronae Borealis stars/Mira variables and eclipsing binaries

See also

Other ASP award lists:

Other amateur astronomy awards:

References

  • "Amateur Achievement Award winners". Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
  1. ^ a b "Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific". Retrieved 2007-08-05.
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