... Ira Polans, & Michael Wright (609) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and (609) 448-8644 kane@princetonastronomy.org editors@princetonastronomy.org Volume 40 From the Director January 2011 Number 1 Happy New Year! To everyone in AAAP, I am wishing you a grand new year and clear skies! ... Opportunity Rover Snaps Gorgeous Panoramas of Santa Maria Crater and Intrepid Crater The Opportunity rover is sending back a multitude of awesome views of Santa Maria Crater since arriving at the western edge on Dec. ...

... Subject: Supernova in Whirlpool Galaxy, Irish Space Science, Reminders . ... Public Lecture, ARMAGH OBSERVATORY: б Monday 6th June, 11:30 am, Armagh Observatory Library. б  . ... Then as totality ends you'll see the Earth's shadow gradually pass off the disc, and the moon will gradually get brighter and resume its more normal appearance. б б  The Irish Astronomical Associationб (IAA) will be holding an 'Eclipse-watch' and BBQ at the car park at Scrabo, just outside Newtownards, Co Down. ...

... 10 November 2005 I won't be at the November meeting as I'll be in Vancouver for the Internet Engineering Task Force (www.ietf.org <http://www.ietf.org/>) meeting. ... For those that read this before November 3rd, please attend the open house for MIT, Lincoln Labs, and Harvard College Observatory at the clubhouse starting at 4:30. ... Aaron works at the AAVSO, and also is a principal at Slacker Astronomy, a web astronomy resource. ... The next topic Aaron covered was RSS, Real Simple Syndication. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York October 2008 Volume 56 Number 10, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE ysis of Cassini pictures. ... Saturn's 60 moons are divided into inner and outer groups. ... There are a diverse group of worlds such as Tethys, Dione, Rhea and Mimas, the latter known as the Death Star moon for its uncanny resemblance to the Star Wars movie's battle station. ... The strange planet so far from its parent star is unexpected based on theories of star and planet formation. ...

... They have a rich history, but have been missed in much of the literature concerned with sky knowledge in culture. This study collected stories , some of which have not previously been reported in an academic format, from Aboriginal people practicing their culture, augmented with stories from the literature, and analysed the data to create a database of sky knowledge that will be added to the larger body of Aboriginal cultural knowledge in Australia. ... This formed the Collected Stories database. ...