Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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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

Jack Newton (on the right), the 1988 awardee

David Levy, the 1993 awardee

Kamil Hornoch, the 2006 awardee

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Year	Name	Home	Field
1979	McMahon, JamesJames McMahon	United States	Occultations
1980	Bateson, FrankFrank Bateson	New Zealand	Variable stars
1981	Alcock, GeorgeGeorge Alcock	United Kingdom	Novae/Comets
1982	Mayer, BenBen Mayer	United States	Problicom
1983	Gunter, J. U.J. U. Gunter	United States	Asteroids
1984	Genet, RussellRussell Genet	United States	Photoelectric photometry
1985	Thompson, GreggGregg Thompson & Robert Evans	Australia	Supernovae
1986	Meeus, JeanJean Meeus	Belgium	Computational astronomy
1987	Ford, Clinton B.Clinton B. Ford	United States	Variable stars
1988	Newton, Jack B.Jack B. Newton	Canada	Astrophotography
1989	Baize, PaulPaul Baize	France	Double stars
1990	Monnig, OscarOscar Monnig	United States	Meteorites
1991	Kippes, OttoOtto Kippes	Germany	Asteroid orbits
1992	Lines, RichardRichard Lines & Helen Lines	United States	Photoelectric photometry of variable stars
1993	Levy, David H.David H. Levy	Canada/ United States	Comets
1994	Haas, Walter H.Walter H. Haas	United States	ALPO founder
1995	Parker, DonaldDonald Parker	United States	Planetary imaging
1996	Overbeek, M. DanielM. Daniel Overbeek	South Africa	Variable stars
1997	Halbach, Edward A.Edward A. Halbach	United States	Variable stars/occultations
1998	Jones, Albert F. A. L.Albert F. A. L. Jones	New Zealand	Variable stars/comets
1999	Offutt, WarrenWarren Offutt	United States	Trans-Neptunian objects
2000	Boltwood, PaulPaul Boltwood	Canada	Deep sky imaging/Hyakutake
2001	Nakano, SyuichiSyuichi Nakano	Japan	Computing comet orbits
2003	Smalley, Kyle E.Kyle E. Smalley	United States	Near-Earth Asteroids
2004	Szymanek, NikNik Szymanek	United Kingdom	Imaging and image processing
2005	Hunter, TimTim Hunter	United States	Light pollution
2006	Hornoch, KamilKamil Hornoch	Czech Republic	Visual and CCD observations of variable stars/comets
2007	Williams, Peter FrancisPeter Francis Williams	Australia	R Coronae Borealis stars/variable star monitoring