The RASNZ Photometry Section, Incorporating the Auckland Photoelectric Observers' Group (Poster abstract)

Volume 40 number 1 (2012)

Stan Walker

272 Heath Road, Waiharara 0486, New Zealand; astroman@paradise.net.nz

Abstract

(Abstract only) This review traces the development of amateur photoelectric and CCD photometry in New Zealand from its beginnings in the late 1960s at Christchurch and Auckland, through the Auckland Photoelectric Observers’ Group and the RASNZ Photometry Section to its present place in Variable Stars South. For this period of over forty years the participants have been heavily involved with southern hemisphere variable star astronomy and observatories such as Carter, Mt. John, and Auckland, together with which were sponsored the highly successful photoelectric conferences, PEP 1-5. Samples of various projects are shown and described. The full text can be seen at http://www.variablestarssouth.org/index.php/community/member-publications/posters