IAU Status

Active Member

Affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Member of Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Member of Division B Facilities, Technologies and Data Science
• Member of Division F Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy
• Member of Commission A1 Astrometry
• Member of Commission A3 Fundamental Standards
• Member of Cross-Division A-F Commission Solar System Ephemerides

Past affiliation(s) within the IAU

• Past Member of Division I Fundamental Astronomy (until 2012)
• Past Member of Division III Planetary Systems Sciences (until 2012)
• Past Member of Commission 4 Ephemerides (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 7 Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 8 Astrometry (until 2015)
• Past Member of Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites (until 2015)

Areas of interest

1 - General: 1.11 - Standards
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.1 - Atmospheric effects, 3.3 - Instrumentation, 3.4 - Light pollution, 3.6 - Site testing, 3.10 - Telescopes: optical
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.3 - Catalogs, 4.4 - Surveys, 4.5 - Virtual observatory tools
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.2 - Celestial mechanics, 5.4 - Ephemerides, 5.8 - Reference systems, 5.9 - Time
7 - Planetary systems: 7.7 - Meteorites, meteors, meteoroids, 7.8 - Minor planets, asteroids, 7.9 - Near Earth Objects , 7.10 - Planets and satellites:, 7.14 - Exoplanets