Advancing Variable Star Astronomy 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
7 - The Pickering Memorial Endowment
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
The members of the Association and the many friends and colleagues of Professor Pickering have reason to be proud of their achievement. It is not only a fitting memorial to a distinguished astronomer, but it affords a greater opportunity of extending our knowledge of Variable Stars.
– William Tyler Olcott, 1931The American Association of Variable Star Observers grew in membership during the 1920s and added substantially to its archive of variable star observations and, in addition, initiated several projects not related to variable stars, such as telescopic meteors and lunar occultation timings. By the end of the decade, the AAVSO had acquired a good reputation for its service to the science of variable star astronomy, though primarily in the narrow, and not particularly exciting, area of long-period variable stars.
In parallel with AAVSO activity that might be considered normal, however, were a series of events taking place around the AAVSO that held out both promise and peril for the still maturing Association. This chapter discusses how the young new Harvard College Observatory Director Harlow Shapley actively involved the AAVSO in HCO's affairs while attempting to rebuild the aging though justly famed observatory and its staff.
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- Advancing Variable Star AstronomyThe Centennial History of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, pp. 75 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011