about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it. It just seems right that an event of that magnitude should be witnessed." Supernova 1983N, spotted by Evans in 1983 in the galaxy M83 long before it reached its peak, turned out to be the first discovery of a new type of supernova, later named Type 1b. In 2005, Evans resigned from being the chairman of the AAVSO Supernovae Search Committee after serving in that position for two decades. Evans lived in Hazelbrook, Australia where he wrote books. Meanwhile, he continued his supernova hunting using a 12-inch (31 cm) reflecting telescope from his back porch. The bulky telescope fell into disuse since the place in Hazelbrook did not accommodate a permanent installation in the back yard. Research in evangelical revivals Robert Evans wrote and published books on the history of evangelism in the 19th and 20th centuries under his imprint Research in Evangelical Revivals. Awards In 1985 he received, with Gregg Thompson, the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his observations of supernovae. In 1986 he received the Berenice and Arthur Page Award from the Astronomical Society of Australia for visual discoveries of supernovae. The American Association of Variable Star Observers has awarded him their Nova/Supernova Award on fifteen separate occasions. He was awarded the Centenary Medal of the Société astronomique de France. He is an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, and the Astronomical Society of Australia. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1988 for his contributions to science. In 1996 the Astronomical Society of New South Wales awarded Evans their most prestigious honour, the McNiven Medal. List of supernova discoveries References: Visual SN 1981A in NGC 1532. Type II. SN 1981D in NGC 1316. Type Ia. SN 1983G in NGC 4753. Type Ia. SN 1983N in NGC 5236. (M83.) Prototype of Type Ib. SN 1983S in NGC 1448. Type II. SN 1983V in NGC 1365. Type Ic. SN 1984E in NGC 3169. Type II. SN 1984J in NGC 1559. Type II. SN 1984L in NGC 991. Prototype of Type Ib. SN 1984N in NGC 7184. Type I. SN 1985P in NGC 1433. Type