JRASC 2012 December

On 09 Nov, 2012 By james-deleted-5...

Inside this issue:

  • Size of the Black-Drop Effect
  • The Grand Schism in Canadian Astronomy III
  • Half-Century of Astronomy Outreach
  • So Long, Neil Armstrong
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Pocket Sky Atlas Challenges for October

On 01 Nov, 2012 By delete119@gmail.com

Sky and Telescope's "Pocket Sky Atlas" is a wonderful resource for all amateur astronomers. These challenges are designed for spicing up your observing.

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Pocket Sky Atlas Challenges for December

On 01 Nov, 2012 By delete119@gmail.com

Sky and Telescope's "Pocket Sky Atlas" is a wonderful resource for all amateur astronomers. These challenges are designed for spicing up your observing.


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Pocket Sky Atlas Challenges for November

On 01 Nov, 2012 By delete119@gmail.com

Sky and Telescope's "Pocket Sky Atlas" is a wonderful resource for all amateur astronomers. These challenges are designed for spicing up your observing.

 

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Asteroid (7754) Gopalan

On 31 Oct, 2012 By ebriggs733@gmail.com

Gopalan Srinivasan (b. 1964) is a professor in the department of geology at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of the solar system through chemical and isotopic studies of meteorites.

 
Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 
 
Reference: MPC 57422
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Asteroid (129101) Geoffcollyer

On 31 Oct, 2012 By ebriggs733@gmail.com

Canadian computer scientist Geoff Collyer (b. 1958) is co-author of C News and designer of the NOV database used by USENET newsreaders. While at Bell Laboratories, he contributed to the Plan 9 operating system. Geo® is a noted Plan 9 and UNIX enthusiast.

Reference: MPC 57426

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Asteroid (117329) Spencer

On 31 Oct, 2012 By ebriggs733@gmail.com

Henry Spencer (b. 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist and small-satellite engineer. He has been a pioneer of open-source software, including C News and the "regex" pattern-matching library. He is also the keeper of the oldest surviving Usenet archives and the software architect for the MOST astronomy satellite.

Reference: MPC 57425

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David Dunlap's 150th Birthday

On 13 Oct, 2012 By ebriggs733@gmail.com With 1 Comments

150 years ago today, October 13th 1862, was the birthdate of David Alexander Dunlap, who is memorialized in several locations around Toronto. Both Mr. Dunlap and his wife, Jessie Donalda Bell, were born in Pembroke, Ontario. Mr. Dunlap graduated as a lawyer from Osgoode Hall, and he practiced in Mattawa. His big break was when two of his colleagues, the Timmins brothers who ran the Mattawa general store, made a deal in 1903 with a man named LaRose for a mining opportunity in what later became the Town of Cobalt.

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Handbook of Astrophotography

On 13 Oct, 2012 By walter.macdonal...

Handbook of

Astrophotography

for Amateur Astronomers

SECOND EDITION

G.N. Patterson
Saskatoon Centre, R.A.S.C.

Compiled for use as reference material in a course in
Astrophotography

© Copyright Gordon Nelson Patterson 1974, 1981 & 1985

ISBN 0-919677-05-3

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Halloween Thoughts

On 02 Oct, 2012 By walter.macdonal...

With days shortening, nights lengthening, and Halloween growing near it is only natural that our thoughts should turn to the dead—and some of them were astronomers. (Insert blood-curdling scream here!)

Throughout history dead people have been interred in grounds sacred or not, either singly or in mass graves. Some had resting places in more formal tombs or crypts, perhaps even inside a church building. But did you know that a few “lucky” people are buried in observatories?

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