Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I PIONEERS IN VARIABLE STAR ASTRONOMY PRIOR TO 1909
- PART II THE FOUNDING OF THE AAVSO – THE WILLIAM TYLER OLCOTT ERA
- PART III RECORDING AND CLASSIFICATION – THE LEON CAMPBELL ERA
- 5 Leon Campbell to the rescue
- 6 Formalizing relationships
- 7 The Pickering Memorial Endowment
- 8 Fading of the Old Guard
- 9 Growing pains and distractions
- PART IV THE SERVICE BUREAU – THE MARGARET MAYALL ERA
- PART V ANALYSIS AND SCIENCE – THE JANET MATTEI ERA
- PART VI ACCELERATING OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCE – THE ARNE HENDEN ERA
- Appendix A AAVSO historiographic notes
- Appendix B Top AAVSO observer totals
- Appendix C Variable star observing groups represented in the AAVSO International Database
- Appendix D AAVSO Awards
- Appendix E Officers of the AAVSO
- Appendix F AAVSO Council members
- Appendix G AAVSO Scientific committee, section, division, and program chairs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Formalizing relationships
from PART III - RECORDING AND CLASSIFICATION – THE LEON CAMPBELL ERA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I PIONEERS IN VARIABLE STAR ASTRONOMY PRIOR TO 1909
- PART II THE FOUNDING OF THE AAVSO – THE WILLIAM TYLER OLCOTT ERA
- PART III RECORDING AND CLASSIFICATION – THE LEON CAMPBELL ERA
- 5 Leon Campbell to the rescue
- 6 Formalizing relationships
- 7 The Pickering Memorial Endowment
- 8 Fading of the Old Guard
- 9 Growing pains and distractions
- PART IV THE SERVICE BUREAU – THE MARGARET MAYALL ERA
- PART V ANALYSIS AND SCIENCE – THE JANET MATTEI ERA
- PART VI ACCELERATING OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCE – THE ARNE HENDEN ERA
- Appendix A AAVSO historiographic notes
- Appendix B Top AAVSO observer totals
- Appendix C Variable star observing groups represented in the AAVSO International Database
- Appendix D AAVSO Awards
- Appendix E Officers of the AAVSO
- Appendix F AAVSO Council members
- Appendix G AAVSO Scientific committee, section, division, and program chairs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Systematic visual observations of variable stars have been continued by Mr. Campbell, who also supervised the observations received from the members of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, and others in foreign countries.
– Solon I. Bailey, 1921, on Leon Campbell's role at Harvard College ObservatoryA few years after the end of World War I, the status of the AAVSO changed from a small gentleman's club of amateur astronomers loosely organized around the observation of variable stars to a formal organization of both professional and amateur astronomers, maintaining some vague connections with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO).
During the last years of Edward C. Pickering's tenure as the HCO director, the AAVSO gradually emerged with its own identity in his annual reports. Pickering's 1911 report, as might be expected, makes no mention of the AAVSO's founding, as the reporting year ended before William Tyler Olcott's October announcement. The report does recognize, however, that Olcott had undertaken the effort to organize such an association. The following year, Pickering only notes that “the organization of variable star observing has greatly increased during the last year,” an indirect reference at best to Olcott's new association.
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- Advancing Variable Star AstronomyThe Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, pp. 61 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011