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AAVSO top visual observers

I just stumbled upon an interesting article about Rod Stubbings, a visual observer who made more than 200,000th variable star observations! This, as Mike Simonsen says, places him in top five visual observers in the history of variable star astronomy.

An interesting image of the persons and their corresponding number of observations (through the year 2009-2010) is the following one.