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Past Amateur Achievement Winners

Designed to "recognize significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity."

Year	Name	Home	Field
2010	Allan Rahill on behalf of the Clear Sky Chart team (Rahill and Attilla Danko)	Canada	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
2009	Thomas Droege	Batavia, Illinois	Developing CCD instrumentation and a worldwide sky survey program
2008	Steve Mandel	Soquel, California	CCD Imaging
2007	Peter F. Williams	Heathcote, NSW, Australia	RCrb stars/Variable Star Monitoring
2006	Kamil Hornoch	Czech Republic	Visual and CCD Observations of Variable Stars/Comets
2005	Tim Hunter	Tucson, Arizona	Light Pollution
2004	Nik Szymanek	United Kingdom	Imaging and Image Processing
2003	Kyle E. Smalley	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Near-Earth Asteroids
2001	Syuichi Nakano	Sumoto, Japan	Computing Comet Orbits
2000	Paul Boltwood	Stittsville, Ontario	Deep Sky Imaging/Hyakutake
1999	Warren Offutt	Cloudcroft, NM	Transneptunian Objects
1998	Albert F.A.L. Jones	New Zealand	Variable Stars/Comets
1997	Edward A. Halbach	Estes Park, CO	Variable Stars/Occultations
1996	M. Daniel Overbeek	Edenvale, South Africa	Variable Stars
1995	Donald Parker	Coral Gables, FL	Planetary Imaging
1994	Walter Haas	Las Cruces, NM	ALPO Founder
1993	David Levy	Tucson, AZ	Comets
1992	Richard & Helen Lines	Phoenix, AZ	Photoelectric Photometry of Variable Stars
1991	Otto Kippes	Wuxburg, Germany	Asteroid Orbits
1990	Oscar Monnig	Fort Worth, TX	Meteorites
1989	Paul Baize	Gouville-Sur-Mer, France	Double Stars
1988	Jack Newton	Victoria, BC, Canada	Astrophotography
1987	Clinton Ford	Wilton, CT	Variable Stars
1986	Jean Meeus	Erps-Kwerps, Belgium	Computational Astronomy
1985	Gregg Thompson & Robert Evans	Springwood, Australia & Hazelbrook, Australia	Supernovae
1984	Russell Genet	Fairborn, OH	Photoelectric Photometry
1983	J.U. Gunter	Durham, NC	Asteroids
1982	Ben Mayer	Los Angeles, CA	Problicom
1981	George Alcock	Peterborough, England	Novae/Comets
1980	Frank Bateson	Greerton, New Zealand	Variable Stars
1979	James McMahon	Ridgecrest, CA	Occultations

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