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The Amateur Achievement Award is one of nine annual astronomical awards managed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. It recognizes "significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity." The contributions can be done in the fields of both observational astronomy or astronomical technologies. The award has been given to amateur astronomers from various countries since 1979 and has become one of the most geographically diverse astronomical awards. Amateur Achievement Award winners receive a commemorative plaque, which is presented at the Annual Meeting Awards Banquet. The monetary value of the award is US$500. Candidates can be nominated by any member of the astronomical community (with the exception of the nominees themselves and their families) and the nominations should be accompanied by other letters of support. All the nominations have to be delivered to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by December 15 of the nominating year and remain valid for three years. The winners are selected by the Awards Committee appointed by the Board of Directors. The committee have the right not to award any of the nominees if they do not consider their achievements exceptional enough.〔 The only time when no candidate was awarded was in 2002.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 == Winners 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Past Amateur Achievement Recipients )〕== |〔 〕〔 〕 |- | 1986 !scope=row| | | Computational astronomy |〔 〕〔 〕 |- | 1987 !scope=row| | | Variable stars |〔 〕 |- | 1988 !scope=row| | | Astrophotography |〔 〕 |- | 1989 !scope=row| | | Double stars |〔 〕 |- | 1990 !scope=row| | | Meteorites |〔 〕 |- | 1991 !scope=row| | | Asteroid orbits |〔 〕 |- | 1992 !scope=row| & Helen Lines | | Photoelectric photometry of variable stars |〔 〕 |- | 1993 !scope=row| | / | Comets |〔 〕 |- | 1994 !scope=row| | | ALPO founder | 〔 |- | 1995 !scope=row| | | Planetary imaging | 〔 |- | 1996 !scope=row| | | Variable stars |〔 〕 |- | 1997 !scope=row| | | Variable stars/occultations |〔 〕 |- | 1998 !scope=row| | | Variable stars/comets |〔 〕 |- | 1999 !scope=row| | | Trans-Neptunian objects |〔 〕 |- | 2000 !scope=row| | | Deep-sky imaging/Hyakutake | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2001 !scope=row| | | Computing comet orbits | |- | 2003 !scope=row| | | Near-Earth asteroids | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2004 !scope=row| | | Imaging and image processing | |- | 2005 !scope=row| | | Light pollution | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2006 !scope=row| | | Visual and CCD observations of variable stars/comets | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2007 !scope=row| | | R Coronae Borealis stars/variable star monitoring | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2008 !scope=row| | | CCD imaging | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2009 !scope=row| | | Developing CCD instrumentation and a worldwide sky survey program | |- | 2010 !scope=row| | | Adapted Canadian Meteorological Centre forecast products for the purpose of planning observing sessions with highly accurate high resolution point forecasts of cloud cover, transparency, seeing, darkness, wind, temperature and humidity over North and Central America | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2011 !scope=row| | | Advancing the fields of extra-solar planet research and stellar astrophysics | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2012 !scope=row| | | Photoelectric photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Astronomical Society of the Pacific )〕 |- | 2013 !scope=row| | colspan = 3| ''No award'' |- | 2014 !scope=row| | | Instrumental in helping redefine the Z Cam sub-type of dwarf novae, and discovered the recurrent nova V745 Sco in outburst in the morning sky, triggering an AAVSO Alert Notice and significant attention from the astronomical community | 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Annual Awards )〕 |- |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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