Director: Rex Parker ( 609 ) 730-0670 drexparker@aol.com ereal times id s The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Treasurer: Ron Mittlestaedt ( 609 ) 771-6981 C8User@aol.com Secretary: Mark Jaworsky ( 609 ) 333-1130 MarkianSJ@comcast.net Program Chairman: Michele Novatski (856) 810-7385 Philenium020202@yahoo.com Editor: Victor Belanger ( 609 ) 448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller ( ... AAAP Meeting April 12 (8:00 Peyton Hall). ...

Journal of the Amateur Astrono mers Association of New York July 2011 Volume 59 Number 7 ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE Redshift brought a telescope. ... As the sky darkens, follow the arc of the Big Dipper's stars to the bright stars Arcturus and Spica. ... July's Morning Sky. ... July 4 The Moon is 6 degr ees below Regulus, the bright star of Leo. ... The Moon is also at last quarter at 1:02 a. m. July 26 The Moon is 7 degrees above Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus the Bull. ...

Rep ort by the ESA­ESO Working Group on Extra-Solar Planets 4 March 2005 Summary Various techniques are being used to search for extra-solar planetary signatures, including accurate measurement of radial velocity and positional (astrometric) displacements, gravitational microlensing, and photometric transits. Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some