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John E. Bortle

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John E. Bortle is an American amateur astronomer. He is best known for creating the Bortle scale to quantify the darkness of the night sky.

Bortle has made a special study of comets. He has recorded thousands of observations relating to more than 300 comets. From 1977 until 1994 he authored the monthly '"Comet Digest" in Sky and Telescope magazine. He also had a special interest in variable stars, recording more than 200,000 observations. From 1970 until 2000 he edited the monthly AAVSO circular for the American Association of Variable Star Observers.^[1]

He published his darkness scale in Sky and Telescope magazine in 2001. ^[2] The scale ranges from 1 (extremely dark rural area or national park, usually at high elevation, low humidity, and low wind) to 9 (urban inner city).^[3]

Recognition

In 1974 received the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Comet Medal for significant contributions to the research of comets. ^[4]
Was the recipient of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 23rd Merit Award in 1983 for his editorship of the AAVSO Circular and observing record. ^[5]
In 1990 was presented with the E.E.Barnard Observers Award of the Western Amateur Astronomers for his observational work on comets.
The asteroid 4673 Bortle was named in his honor.^[1]
The 2010 recipient of the Walter Scott Houston Award of the Northeast Region of the Astronomical League. ^[6]
In 2013 he received the Leslie Peltier Award from the Astronomical League. ^[1]
Currently the foremost observer of variable stars in Western Hemisphere history, having contributed more than 210,000 visual observations to the AAVSO's database. ^[7]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite web|url=http://www.astroleague.org/content/john-e-bortle-2013-leslie-peltier-award-0|title=John E. Bortle - 2013 Leslie Peltier Award|work=Astronomical League|accessdate=26 September 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620002810/https://www.astroleague.org/content/john-e-bortle-2013-leslie-peltier-award-0|archivedate=20 June 2015|df=}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/3304011.html?page=1&c=y|title=The Bortle Dark-Sky Scale|last=Bortle|first=John E.|date=February 2001|work=Sky & Telescope|publisher=Sky Publishing Corporation|accessdate=2013-02-20}}
3. ^http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/bortle.html

4. ^ 1974 Comet Medalist, ASP Journal, 1974

5. ^ AAVSO Journal, Report on the 1983 Fall General Meeting

6. ^ N.E.R.A.L. website

7. ^ AAVSO Observer Records, 2016

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