... Any of you who are new to the AAAP should take time to chat with one of the officers or other members of the club to find out more about our remote observatory up in the Jenny Jump State Park near Hope, New Jersey. ... What a night at Jenny. ... If you want to catch a few more glimpses there is a nice set of images on the Sky and Telescope web site under Aurora Delights. ... Another service is provided by Sky and Telescope at http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ proamcollab/astroalert/default.asp. ...

... The spectrum of the brightest star, our Sun, shows several dark gaps perpendicular to the flow of it’s colours (figure 1). These so called spectral absorption lines where discovered in 1802 by the English scientist William Wollaston. ... Some stars as Pollux show a spectrum similar to that of our sun with strong Ca II and Fe II lines, others as Sirius or Vega show strong absorption lines of hydrogen, others, as Mira show very complicated spectra due to molecular absorption lines (see figure 5). ...

... Advises . Contact Advises . As an advise for amateurs we would like to underline: if it's possible, try to observe 3 asteroid positions per night and do not neglect to observe the Numbered Minor Planets in your telescope field of view as a "by product" of your observational programs. ... We think such estimations ought to be produced every morning after CCD observations of the moving celestial objects by observer himself. ...

... Free image alignment/stacking/processing Software . My lunar drawings . ... REAL TELESCOPES . ... Download Pocket-Aberrator . ... The Aberrator is freeware that generates star-testing images to show the effects of aberrations (distortions) influencing the quality of a telescopes performance. ... The idea to make a program like the Aberrator I got after studying many internet-sites on star-testing and often the effects of certain aberrations were only available as literal descriptions. ...