IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Astrobiology
• Member of Division G Stars and Stellar Physics
• Member of Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 25 Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 37 Star Clusters & Associations (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Division V Variable Stars (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques (until 2012)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.4 - Miscellaneous
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.9 - Techniques, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.2 - Atlases
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry
6 - The Sun: 6.2 - Sun: activity, 6.3 - Sun: atmosphere, 6.24 - Sun: solar-terrestrial relations
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.2 - Moon, 7.5 - Interplanetary medium, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.14 - Exoplanets
8 - Stars: 8.11 - Stars: evolution, 8.12 - Stars: fundamental parameters, 8.34 - Stars: solar-type, 8.38 - Stars: variables
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.8 - ISM: general
10 - The Galaxy: 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters, 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.9 - Galaxy: globular clusters: general, 10.13 - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics, 10.15 - Galaxy: open clusters and associations
11 - Galaxies: 11.11 - Galaxies: fundamental parameters, 11.16 - Galaxies: intergalactic medium, 11.20 - Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, 11.21 - Galaxies: Local Group