IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• 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 Commission C3 History of Astronomy

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Commission 26 Double & Multiple Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 27 Variable Stars (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 41 History of Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 42 Close Binary Stars (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.3 - History and philosophy of astronomy, 1.5 - Publications, bibliography, 1.6 - Astronomy Education, 1.9 - Astronomy outreach, 1.10 - Astronomy for Development
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.2 - Atlases, 4.3 - Catalogs
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.3 - Eclipses, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.5 - Occultations
6 - The Sun: 6.5 - Sun: corona, 6.12 - Sun: general
7 - Planetary systems: 7.1 - Earth, 7.2 - Moon, 7.3 - Comets, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids
8 - Stars: 8.4 - Stars: binaries, 8.9 - Stars: distances, 8.38 - Stars: variables, 8.40- Stars: Wolf-Rayet
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.16 - ISM: planetary nebulae, 9.17 - ISM: supernova remnants
10 - The Galaxy: 10.1 - Galaxy: abundances, 10.2 - Galaxy: bulge, 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.8 - Galaxy: general, 10.11 - Galaxy: halo
11 - Galaxies: 11.12 - Galaxies: general
12 - Cosmology: 12.10 - Cosmology: early Universe