The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Bill Murray ( 609 ) 298-1179 strgazr@comcast.net Assistant Director John Church ( 609 ) 799-0723 j.church@mindspring.com Treasurer Program Chairman Michael Mitrano OPEN ( 609 )-737-6518 michael.mitrano@worldnet.att.net Secretary Editors Larry Kane Bryan Hubbard and Ira Polans ( 609 ) 273-1456 (908) 859-1670 and ( ... In the month of October, normally the clearest of the year, it has rained almost every weekend. ...

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Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Fees . ... 2/3-m Telescope . ... Irvin M. Winer . ... Site . ... Telescope Aperture / Mount . ... 20,000 . ... Meade 20-inch MAX on MAX Mount . ... Housing in our automatic observatory at our site near Sonoita, Arizona . ... Telescope (you provide the telescope, mount, control computer, cables, etc.) ... Long distance telephone charges for calls initiated by your computer or staff on Winer telephones . ... 2013 Winer Observatory. ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . ... For many years two-way radios had a feature called by many names including Motorola's Private Line, GE/Ericsson's "Channel Guard", E.F. Johnson's "Call Guard", RCA's "Quiet Channel." ... Some call it by the most correct name (probably) of Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS). ... Since most radios seem to have adopted a 1 - 38 sub-channel system we at last have a way to express what CTCSS tone we all wish to utilize with a simple number. ... Tone . ...

... Norm Oberle being reflected by one of his . ... The 31" mirror at the . ... It was through Norm's classes that I made my own two telescope mirrors described elsewhere on this site. ... Soon he made his first first telescope. ... Norm was one of the charter members and organizers of Cuyahoga Astronomy Club and its first president. ... In 1968, Norm formed the LEAP Project (Lake Erie Astronomical Project) partially an out growth of the telescope making class and astronomy meetings at the planetarium. ...

The Story of the Ham and Eggs Society In the last years of the Space Shuttle development, there were continuing problems with the thermal protection tiles on the Orbiter which resulted in several rescheduling dates for the first launch. ... So the date was set for ten months from that meeting as April 1981 for the first launch of the Space Shuttle. ... Each person received a personalized wallet card with a picture of two fried eggs and a slice of ham with the words, "are you involved-- or committed?" ...

... Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope . ... This page is devoted to the 1.5-m telescope RTT150 (150-cm Russian-Turkish Telescope, previously called AZT-22) located on mountain Bakyrlytepe in the south of Turkey. The telescope is a joint project of Kazan University Observatory (V.P.Engel'gardt Astronomical observatory) , Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the National Observatory of Turkey , the latter being also responsible for the telescope technical service. ...

pre> Battle over California EVs rages, November 16, 1995 -- 11elec20.txt Legislators to Air Board; "Scrap the Electric Car Mandate!" ... 16, 1995--Citing negligible air quality benefits and enormous costs, state legislators joined with air quality experts, economists and tax payer advocates in calling for the repeal of California's electric vehicle (EV) mandate. ... This mandate puts the environmental cart before the technological horse," he concluded. ...

... Star called the Sun . ... Best images of the SOHO spacecraft . Best images of the TRACE spacecraft . Passage of Venus in the face of the Sun . CORONAS-PHOTON spacecraft docking with the rocket Cyclon . ... Solar Satellites - towards the Sun . ... CORONAS-PHOTON testing in the Mirny sity (2009 January) . ... 1953-2016 Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun, LPI RAS, Russia . ... 7(499)132-65-96, Fax: +7(499)132-65-97 . ...

... Scientific Venues American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting American Astronomical Society meeting American Association of Physics Teachers meeting American Association of Variable Star Observers meeting .Astronomy Conference. ... Worth, TX University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Yale University, CT Conventions/Special Interest Meetings/Other (James Randi's) "The Amaz!ng Meeting" (2003 - 2009), Las Vegas, NV, Ft. ... Diablo Astronomical Society, Concord, CA Mt. ...

... http://www.aras.am/JENAM-2007/index.htm . ... JENAM 2007 in Armenia, First Announcement available                            J E N A M - 2 0 0 7                         "Our non-stable Universe"                    20-25 August 2007, Yerevan, Armenia JENAM-2007 (Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting) will take place in Yerevan (Armenia) and will be the 15th Annual Meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) and the 6th Annual Meeting of the Armenian Astronomical Society (ArAS). ...

After some period of quiet Sun the exciting Sun-Earth connections event as the big magnetic storm was observed at January 10-11, 1997 by various satellites and ground-based instruments. Scientist meet this challenge with unprecedented activity and a few data bases was created in relation with solar event/magnetic storm on a few WEB-sites. ... According the Moscow observatory data the sudden storm commencement (SSC) take place at 01:08 Universal Time of January 10, 1997. ...

. Scientists want to understand what causes giant explosions in the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, such as this one. The eruptions are called coronal mass ejections (CME), and they can travel toward Earth to disrupt human technologies in space. To better understand the forces at work, a team of researchers used NASA data to study a precursor of CMEs called coronal cavities. // Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory

The Stone Age Observatory. It is well known that a lot of ancient constructions are oriented according to the cardinal points but not long ago scientists turned upon archeological monuments. ... The ancient monuments studied by archeoastronomy had been used for observing the sun and the moon. ... They are called megalits (from Greek "megas" - "great"; "litos" - "stone"). ... The Great Stonehang. ... Orby called it a Heel Stone because he had seen a small hole in it looked like a heel trace. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

... American Astronomical Society . AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet . ... NASA Astrophysics Data System: Abstract Service . ... Astronomy Astrophysics: Preprints Abstracts . ... Local archive of IAU Circulars. ... Germany, list of all Astronomical Institutes . ... Poland, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory . Russia, Sternberg Astronomical Institute . ... Russia, Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences . ... USA, Astronomy and Space Science Group at GMU . ...

ASTRONOMY IN UKRAINE - 2000 AND BEYOND . ... Kyiv, Ukraine, 5-8 June 2000 . ... The primary objective of the conference is to consider the integration of astronomical research in Ukraine into the international astronomy. ... VLBI for Astronomy and Geodynamics Convenors: Kees van't Klooster (The Netherlands), Leonid M. Litvinenko (Ukraine), Chopo Ma (USA). ... Planetary Astronomy Convenors: Teodor Kostiuk (USA), Robert Nelson (USA), Yuri Shkuratov (Ukraine). ... The "general" registration fee: 100 USD. ...

МОСКОВСКИЙ ЦЕНТР НЕПРЕРЫВНОГО МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ . Уже несколько лет в начале января Независимый Московский Университет проводит встречи Пьера Делиня с победителями конкурса молодых математиков фонда Дмитрия Зимина "Династия". ... Программа встреч и Тезисы докладов . ... Дмитрию Фроленкову . Илье Вьюгину . ... Илье Щурову . ... Дмитрию Талалаеву . ...

... Prof. L.B.F.M. Waters (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) . Participants: . Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek", University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands . ... Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg University, St.Petersburg, Russia . ... Minutes of the meeting in Amstredam (ASCII file) . ... Meeting of 11 participants and several interested scientists from former Soviet Union teams during the All-Russian Astronomical Conference in St.Petersburg in August, 2001. ...

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