... Our own membership demonstrates this on a regular basis every time a person new to astronomy joins the club. ... Clear skies to all, coma. ... The July meeting of Boston was Members talking about his 32 in planetary images and planetary missions. the Amateur Telescope Makers of Night which featured Mario Motta ch relay telescope, John Boudreau's John Sheff talking about NASA's John Boudreau John Boudreau gave an update on his planetary imaging of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. ...

... We present a simple, e#ective technique that allows the con­ temporary spectroscopy of all the objects, up to a limiting magnitude, contained in a # 100 arcmin 2 field. This technique makes possible the immediate and unambiguous identification of peculiar objects included in the field. ... We show that this technique should also be quite useful in emission line and WR star surveys, and illustrate the software procedures devel­ oped to make the wavelength and flux calibration of these spectra. ...