vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller (609) 252-1223 jmiller@princetonastronomy.org Volume 35 From the Director November 2006 Number 10 November 14 AAAP Meeting (8:00 PM, at Peyton Hall, Princeton Univ) ... For more info, please see Ken's article in this issue, and check out the AAAP website. ... Several members plan to get together in the late afternoon on Wed Nov 8 at Washington Crossing Park (check the AAAP website and look for e-mails) to observe the transit of Mercury. ...

... The instrument uses a high-speed optical system to form an image on the entrance slit of a matching stigmatic spectrograph, which then disperses a spectrum of a strip of the sky onto a charge-coupled device (CCD). ... Fast camera lenses, narrowband Ha пlters, and charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors combine to give an image пeld of several degrees with 0Ў resolution and a .1 sensitivity to 1 R or less (Gaustad et al. ... The spectrum and the sky are imaged on the CCD detector. ...

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