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.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano Ludy D'Angelo 609-737-6518 (609) 882-9336 ... Georgette and Bob North Membership Meeting Minutes March 11, 2008 Observatory: Dedicated AAAP member Gene Ramsey will relinquish has position as Observatory Co-Chairman for health reasons. ...

... This sp ectral distribution is defined b oth by the energy distribution in the target star's sp ectrum and by the sp ectral resp onse of the detector, i.e. by the central wavelength 0 and the effective sp ectral bandwidth . ... On the right: The collection of the MASS sp ectral resp onse curves. ... Table 1: Integral characteristics of the resp onse curves of the MASS devices. 0 -- central wavelength, ef f -- effective wavelength for A0 V stars, -- effective bandwidth (integral under the curve). ...

Measurement of Sky Brightness at the Iranian National Observatory Davoud Afshari1 and Sadollah Nasiri1,2 1Physics Department, Zanjan University, Zanjan 45195-313, Iran; Institute for Advanced studies in Basic Science (IASBS), Zanjan 45195-1159, Iran; Measurement of light pollution 2 Introduction Among 34 candidate sites at the central part of the country, 5 sites namely Garkesh (in Kashan ), Kolahbarfi(in Kashan ), Deynava (in ... One of these is light pollution. ...