2010 programme

Poster
Poster

Equatorial Eclipsing Binaries Project

Dr Thomas Richards

Variable Stars South

The EEB Project (leader: Tom Richards) is a joint collaboration between Variable Stars South and the Variable Star Section of the British Astronomical Association, to study some neglected Algol-type eclipsing binaries near the celestial equator. The project has over a dozen observers from four countries who have been using visual, DSLR and CCD instrumentation.
The poster will present results to date on the observed stars, together with commentary on problems, techniques and work still to be done. Information will be supplied on how new observers can join the project and the equipment and skills they will need.

Tom Richards

Tom's primary research interest is variable stars, in particular eclipsing binaries. In 2009 he was appointed Director of the Variable Star Section of the RASNZ, now called Variable Stars South. Tom was awarded the Murray Geddes Prize of the Royal Astronomical Society of NZ in 1959 and the Berenice Page Medal of the Astronomical Society of Australia in 2006, for his research work as an amateur astronomer. He is a past president of the Astronomical Society of Victoria.