Asteroid (294600) Abedinabedin

Abedin Y. Abedin (b. 1982) is a good friend of the first discoverer. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Western Ontario.
Orbit type: Main Belt
 
Reference: MPC 84384
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Asteroid (340891) Londoncommorch

The London Community Orchestra, founded in 1974, is a community orchestra in London, Ontario. The minor planet is named in recognition of the orchestra’s 40th anniversary.
Orbit type: Main Belt
 
Reference: MPC 84384
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Asteroid (261930) Moorhead

James Marshall Moorhead (b. 1940) is an American-Canadian astronomer with expertise in the infrared spectroscopy of stars and nebulae, and the properties of variable stars.
Orbit type: Main Belt
 
Reference: MPC 84383
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Asteroid (144769) Zachariassen

Rayan Zachariassen (b. 1963) is a Canadian computer scientist who helped build and manage Canada’s first national educational Internet backbone (CA*net).

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 84381

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Elvins AutoBiography

Autobiography of Andrew Elvins.  There are three sections in this document:

  1. Autobio dictated by Mr. Elvins to L.H. Graham in 1904.
  2. Autobio dictated by Mr. Elvins to C.A. Chant in 1913 (transcription of #3).
  3. Original Shorthand version of #2.

The text of these autobiographies appear on the two pages following this one.

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The Poor Man's Telescope

THE POOR MAN'S TELESCOPE
by
F.W. Henshaw and F.T. Matthews

A series of articles first appearing in THE MONITOR under the feature column of the Montreal Centre — "Observatory Activities."

Note: The actual year of publication is not known.

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JRASC 2013 August

Inside this issue:

  • Planetary Science Congress
  • Oz Odyssey
  • Light-Pollution Mapping Device
  • Eclipse Crossword Answers
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John R. Percy

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Cole of Spyglass Mountain

Cole of Spyglass Mountain, by Arthur Preston Hankins.

For additional formats, visit Faded Page.

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Asteroid (133528) Ceragioli

Roger Ceragioli (b. 1959) was a professional optician and worked for the University of Arizona's Steward Mirror Laboratory, specializing in meter-class optics. His projects include the "90-Prime" focus corrector for the Bok Telescope and the MODS spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope. He has designed and built hundreds of optical components during his career. More recently, he has produced designs for commercial companies. His Ph.D. dissertation was on "The lore and poetry of the Dog Star in antiquity".

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