Lifetime Achievement Award

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John has measured dozens of asteroids with over 100 multiple-station deployments starting in 2008, by far the most of anyone outside the USA. He has designed several special compact telescopes optimized for the work, greatly aiding multiple-station deployments, include designs that allow almost routine pre-pointing one or more nights before the event. Earlier, he pioneered the CCD drift-scan technique used by many observers, writing the Scanalyzer software to calculate times from the recorded trails. John developed the suitcase telescopes and has been an active observer for many years.

Outside of his occultation work, John is most prolific amateur discoverer of asteroids in the southern hemisphere, with 1,193 asteroids discovered (including 4 near-Earth objects), 1997 - 2008 at Reedy Creek Observatory in Queensland, AU.

More activities and awards given to John:

2002 – received the Gene Shoemaker NEO grant by the Planetary Society to support his work in near-Earth Asteroids
2003 – started asteroid occultations using trailed CCD images (CCD drift-scan technique)
2008 – Awarded the Berenice and Arthur Page Medal by the Astronomical Society of Australia
2010 – started using video cameras for occultations and designed the collapsible telescopes for traveling and multi-station deployments
2011 he formulated a method to derive asteroid dimensions by integrating the results of separate occultations

Asteroid 24105 Broughton has been named in his honor in 2005.