The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director John Church (609) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring ... (732) 469-7698 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 37 From the Director Midsummer 2008 Number 7 Summer time...and the observin's easy ... Mount The telescope mount is equally important to the performance as the optical tube. ...

Johnson: Today is April 1, 2014. This oral history session is being conducted with Bertram Aaron at NASA?s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, as part of the NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] Oral History Project sponsored by the NASA Headquarters History Office. ... Johnson: Yes, that was a lot of money back then. ... I think a lot of the work we were doing at that time was to determine supersonic and hypersonic shapes for wings, bodies, and that sort of thing. ...

... The Thickness of Stellar Disks in Early-type Galaxies E. M. Chudakova* and O. K. Sil'chenko ** Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Received August 19, 2013; in final form, October 30, 2013 Abstract--We suggest and justify a new photometric method enabling the derivation of the relative thickness of a galactic disk from the two-dimensional surface-brightness distribution of the galaxy in the plane of the sky. ... The galaxies are non-interacting. ...