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From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:25:55 EST Subject: N.E. Sunspot, Lecture, Comet, Columbia Hi all, The Sunspot maximum may be over, but there have been a few giant sunspots lately! The latest one is also visible to the unaided eye. NEVER look at the sun through any sort of optical aid: alwyas use a special modern purpose-designed solar filter, or project the Sun's image onto a piece of white paper or card. The next Irish Astronomical Association meeting will be on Wednesday 19th, 7.30 p.m., in Stranmillis College, Stranmillis Road, Belfast. Mr Gerry Moloney will give a public lecture entitled "Time for HRT", which will discuss the importance of the Hertzprung-Russell, or HR, diagram. Admission is free and all are welcome. As soon as the Moon has left our evening skies, have another look for Comet Juels Holvorcem, moving from Lacerta into Andromeda. It hadn't maintained its fast brightening rate at the time of my last view, but you never know.... Finally, I have just received the following email from Leo Enright about the Columbia investiagtion. "Terry, Thanks for your note about Heather's C4 programme. I didn't see it because I'm in Houston for a series of public hearings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. You might be gratified to hear that the amateur astronomy community came in for some very major praise at today's (Monday) hearing. "Heroes" was how one NASA official described them, and that was echoed by the Board Chairman. This followed a presentation (below) of video shot mainly by amateur astronomers which is now central to the investigation. One breathtaking sequence shows Columbia eclipsing Venus!" [I haven't included the video sequence to keep the size of this email to reasonable proportions] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clear Skies, Terry Moseley
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