Saturday, December 12, 2015

Another award / Ein weiterer Award

This week I received my fifth award from the Astronomical League. This time, it is the Globular clusters award. The requirement was to observe at least 50 globulars, three of which had to be so-called challenge objects. I was kind of productive in observing extragalactic globulars (most of which were located in M31), so I logged 58 globulars altogether, including 13 challenging objects.
In most cases, one has to hand in the logs to a coordinator in the club one is affiliated with. In my case this would be the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association. In this case, however, I had to submit the logs to the Program Chair Bob Kerr, who did a great job in reviewing my results.
According to him, I was the first to log the extragalactic globulars G119, G213 and G272 – which is astonishing considering the fact that I was the 280th person to finish this program. Bob also told me that I was the most distant awardee he had the pleasure of working with.

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Diese Woche erhielt ich meinen fünften Award der Astronomical League. Dieses Mal ist es der Kugelsternhaufen-Award. Die Anforderung war, mindestens 50 Kugelsternhaufen zu beobachten, davon mussten mindestens drei sogenannte herausfordernde Objekte sein. Ich war ziemlich produktiv in der Beobachtung von extragalaktischen Kugelsternhaufen (dies meisten befinden sich in M31), und so konnte ich insgesamt 58 Kugelsternhaufen protokollieren, darunter 13 herausfordernde.
Meistens muß man die Aufzeichnungen zu einem Koordinator des Clubs schicken, welchem man angehört. In meinem Fall ist das die Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association. In diesem Falle jedoch musste ich die Aufzeichnungen an den Programmvorsitzenden Bob Kerr senden, der bei der Prüfung meiner Ergebnisse großartige Arbeit geleistet hat.
Gemäß seinen Aussagen war ich der erste, der die extragalaktischen Kugelsternhaufen G119, G213 und G272 eingereicht hat – was erstaunlich ist wenn man bedenkt, dass ich die 280. Person war, die dieses Programm erfolgreich abschließen konnte. Bob sagte mir auch, dass ich der entfernteste Auszeichnungsempfänger bin, mit welchem er das Vergnügen hatte, zusammen zu arbeiten.

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Pictures from top to bottom:

(1) Globular Cluster Program Award
(2) Award Pin
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Bilder von oben nach unten:

(1) Globular Cluster Program Auszeichnung
(2) Zugehörige Anstecknadel


4 comments:

  1. Nice work Christian! And Happy New Year!

    If you are interested, Jerry Farrar has observed many GC's in M31 over the past 2-3 years and even identified some inconsistencies between published sources/catalogues.

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  2. Hi Alan,

    thank you very much. Wishing you happyn holidays.
    Jerry's results sound interesting. Haven't found inconsistencies so far.
    Best,
    Christian

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  3. Congratulations, Christian!
    That's really impressive. I've seen a couple of extragalactic GC's but didn't bother to keep them listed. Guess, I should check my files :-)
    Again, congratulations, you're a great visual observer!
    Bye,
    Frank

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  4. Dear Frank,

    thank you very much, indeed! I am getting quite embarassed.
    I also had a "special night" when observing for this award: I observed globulars in four different galaxies (milky way, M31, M110 and M33 that is).

    Thanks again - and let's hope for clear weather on Jan. 19th!

    Best,
    Christian

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