Rapid Response Robotic Telescope
2005
BBAA worked with Norfolk State University and the University of Virginia on the Rapid Response Robotic Telescope collaboration—an unusually direct amateur/professional research partnership.
BBAA Honors & History
Recognition earned by the club and its members—and a few projects that helped define BBAA.
Club Awards
- Back Bay Observer — Astronomical League Mabel Sterns recognition: 2000, 2003, 2014 and 2015.
- Astronomy Day recognition — 2002 recognition for BBAA's “lunar phase on the day you were born” idea.
- Library Telescope Program — 2015 Horkheimer Library Telescope recognition.
Individual Honors
- Jordan Bramble — National Young Astronomer recognition, 2009.
- Shawn Loescher & Curt Lambert — Astronomical League Webmaster Award, 2018.
Observing Hall of Fame
Astronomical League observing-program awards are maintained separately from club and individual honors.
BBAA history
Planetary Nebula Program
BBAA members helped build the Astronomical League Planetary Nebula Observing Program—selecting objects, shaping rules, supplying images and contributing to the observing manual.
Explore the BBAA legacy →Library Telescopes
BBAA's library-telescope work grew into a continuing public-access program and received Astronomical League recognition in 2015.
Library Telescope Program →