STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... Sure we have a number of new members join every year and a few of them become extremely active and make valuable contributions to the club. ... Steve would like to keep the club's outward focus by attracting new members and start focusing inwards so that members can develop their skills in astronomy and telescope making. ...

... I'd like you to imagine that you are aliens, living in the city of Mog, on a strange and distant world that just happens to be just like the Earth. ... The inhabitants of Mog have never seen the sky. ... They believe that the Great God has a light switch, which she switches off and on to make day and night. ... You have recently completed the greatest piece of telegraph engineering that the world of Mog has ever seen: a telegraph linking Mog to the incredibly distant seaside city of Zing. ...

... Soc. 376, 1033­1046 (2007) doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11549.x Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653 I. V. Chilingarian,1 1 2 ,2,3 P. Prugniel, 2,4 O. K. Sil'chenko1 and V. L. Afanasiev 5 Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, Universitetsky pr. ... Fitting the spectra with synthetic single stellar populations (SSP), we found an SSPequivalent age of 5 Gyr and nearly solar metallicity [Fe/H] =-0.06 dex. ... 2007 The Authors. ...