... Telescopes . ... But regardless of where you observe from or whether or not you have a telescope, exploring the many aspects of astronomy can be an exciting hobby. It can be an activity shared with thousands of other amateurs all over the world. ... Or it might be pursued more actively by joining a local astronomy club like the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and learning by direct association with other amateurs. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Non-refereed marked with NR APO PUBLICATIONS FOR 2011 -12 Papers and Theses, 11/2010-11/ 2012 Agueros, M.A., Posselt, B., Anderson, S.F., Rosenfield, P., Haberl, F., Homer, L., Margon, B., Newsom, E.R., Voges, W., 2011 , No confirmed new isolated neutron stras in the SDSS data release 4 , AJ 141, 176 Badenes, C., van Kerkwijk, M.H., Kilic, M., Bickerton, S.J., Mazeh, T., Mullaly, F., Tal-Or, L., Thompson, S.E., 2012 SDSS 1355+0856: A detached white dwarf + M ... 2011, ATEL 3126 ...

Excerpts from Peer Instruction for Astronomy Paul J. Green To be published by Prentice Hall 2002 Visit the Web site and ConcepTest Library at http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~pgreen/educ/PIA.html CONTENTS FOREWORD by Eric Mazur PREFACE Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter 2: PEER INSTRUCTION FOR ASTRONOMY ACTIVE ... Peer Instruction for Astronomy focuses on what instructors can do in class to boost student learning and satisfaction, and so the emphasis here is on informal learning groups. ...

. Authors . Problem . Method . Advises . Contact Analysis of an accuracy of CCD asteroid observations carried out by professional and amateur astronomers . An accuracy estimation of CCD asteroid observations contained in the Minor Planet Center Database and carried out in the years 1999 - 2006 is realized. About 20 millions individual positions of the Numbered and Unnumbered Minor Planets were tested by means of calculations of (O-C) residuals to derive "mean error of a single observation" for more than 400

ANDROMEDA And ANDROMEDAE the daughter of Cassiopeia ALPHA And Alpheratz or Sirrah (also delta Peg) the horse or navel BETA And Mirach the loins GAMMA And Almach earthkid (Arabian weasel-like mammal) XI And Adhil (train of a garment) ANTLIA Ant ANTLIAE the pump APUS Aps APODIS the bird of paradise AQUARIUS Aqr AQUARII the water carrier ALPHA Aqr Sadal Melik lucky star of the king Chinese) DELTA Cas Ruchbah or Rukbah "knee" EPSILON Cas Segin or Navi ?? ...

Chairman: Mark Lopez (609) 393-2565 mal455@earthlink.net Editor: Victor Belanger (609) 448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jcm726@earthlink.net Volume 32 From The Program Chairman I know that most of you are regular readers of Sky Telescope and Astronomy magazines, and like myself, you are also frequent visitors to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day web site ... He began astro-imaging in1996 with a 10" Schmidt Cassegrain and a CCD camera. ...

VARIABLE STARS, THE GALACTIC HALO AND GALAXY FORMATION C. Sterken, N. Samus and L. Szabados (Eds.) 2010 Formation Mechanisms for Spheroidal Stellar Systems O. K. Sil'chenko 1 Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Abstract. Spheroidal stellar systems on various scales include elliptical galaxies, dwarf spheroidal galaxies, and globular stellar clusters. ... The formation mechanisms of the oldest globular clusters represent a puzzle yet. ... 2009). ...