Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York September 2009 Volume 57 Number 9, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE Eclipsed by Clouds, and Other Chinese Adventures By Tony Hoffman In mid-July, I went to China on t h e P la n et a r y Society's eclipse tour, to see the 21st Century's longest total solar eclipse from near Shanghai. ... The view through the first scope was poor, with glare from stray light rendering Jupiter's Galilean moons all but invisible. ... September 2 Moon lies near Jupiter. ...

... M111 Jan 2008 . ... New Members . ... Any time you have something you'd like to offer - be it a story of how you first got started in astronomy, a star party you just attended, a telescope you just bought, or your favorite constellation, just drop me a line with the story included and I'll be sure to get it posted! ... The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74-kilobyte ?hard drive.? ...