CCD Image Calibration - AAVSO

Carolyn learned variable star observing from legendary AAVSO observer and fellowOhioan, Leslie Peltier. Carolyn would make the trip to Delphos, Ohio to observe faint“inner sanctum” stars with Peltier’s 12-inch refractor nearly every week during theirlifelong friendship. She was more than happy to pay it forward by mentoring othernewcomers and sharing her enthusiasm with other variable star observers around theworld.One way she managed to do that was by publishing the informal monthly newsletterVariable Views in which she shared ideas about astronomy, stories of variable stars andamateur astronomers and humorous notes about her own experiences. She started thenewsletter at her own expense and published it for 22 consecutive years. Carolyn invitedher Variable Views readers to summer gatherings each year at Leslie Peltier’s homewhere she was able to inspire young people with her love of the stars and observing.She managed to reach out and touch people across international boundaries also, in a timewhen this was not easy to do. She sponsored a Czechoslovakian observer, Jaroslav Kruta,to AAVSO membership. Through persistent correspondence, mainly tape recordings, shetaught Jaroslav English, and was able to introduce several other AAVSO members to himby arranging for them to meet when they visited Czechoslovakia.Besides sharing her enthusiasm for astronomy with the public, she managed to hold downa full-time position as a music teacher, inspiring countless young musicians along theway.The Carolyn Hurless Online Institute for Continuing Education is proud to carry on in thetradition of this remarkable woman.12