... 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. ...

Converting Astronomical Spectra into Sounds: a Tool for Teaching and Outreach? ... In this paper, I present a new way of presenting spectra to the public: convert the electromagnetic spectra into sound spectra and let people listen to them. ... In these cases, the signals being converted to sound are acoustic pressure oscillations: they really are sound waves, simply needing their frequencies to be shifted into the audible range. ... 2 HOW TO TURN SPECTRA INTO SOUNDS: STEP BY STEP GUIDE . ...