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Hi
Someone very kindly suggested I join and ask for advice following an object that appeared on a photo I took of the sky.
Friends,
For those of you who are planning to attend the upcoming AAS meeting and/or are on the west coast (USA): There will be a workshop on June 12 for those who are interested in conducting/completing research in astronomy using small telescopes and/or AAVSO data. I will be giving two presentations, one on our journal, JAAVSO, and another on possible spectroscopic projects of interest. Here’s the information:
WebObs running extremelly slow...
Regards,
Eddy
In New Mexico between the western New Mexico border and Pie Town (hwy 60), I have seen strange looking gray skies that are in areas designated as being Bortle 1 skies. At dark sky sites in Arizona the skies are gray, but the ones in NM are a different kind of gray. The grayness seems to be more solid, if that is possible. Although the NM skies are classified as Bortle 1 skies, they do not seem to have an increased number of stars that are visible to the naked eye.
I'm using Windows 10 now. When I download the Zapper it's asking for a app. Which app is the best for opening the Zapper?
Friends,
AAVSOers often ask me how our observations fit in the "large surveys" era or in the "monitoring with space telescopes" era. Here's an example of a ecently published work analyzing Kepler satellite and AAVSO long-term monitoring light curves:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.02937v1.pdf
I hope you'll enjoy it!
Best wishes - clear skies,
Stella.
Friends,
Thank you for attending the 105th AAVSO meeting in St Louis (in person or remotely). Because of you the meeting was a great success. For our members who didn’t have the chance to attend, later this week we will post online Prof. Horace Smith’s recorded keynote talk entitled “Learning from Pulsating Stars: Progress over the Last Century”. We will also be sending a survey to our attendees, asking for feedback. Thank you in advance for considering responding to the survey; it will greatly help us improve our meetings.
Hi,
WebObs runs terribly slow at the moment. What is the reason?
Regards,
Eddy
Hi,
Just a reminder of the Transit of Mercury which occurs on 2016 May 9. Geocentric 'maximum' occurs at 14:57 UT, with little difference anywhere on the globe.
Note, just like with a partial solar eclipse, a solar filter must be used.
Mercury will be just 12" across, much smaller than Venus during its transit. So (filtered) telescopic equipment will be needed.
It an excellent opportunity to illustrate the idea of an exoplanet transit and the tiny drop in light from the parent star.
John
Friends,
At the 105th AAVSO meeting this week, we will be broadcasting Dr Horace Smith's keynote talk online, free for all. The tile of his talk is "Learning from Pulsating Stars: Progress over the Last Century". The presentation will take place at 6:00 pm USA Central Time Zone, and can be accessed through the following link:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5791902173743269122
I hope you can join us!
Best wishes - clear skies,
Stella.
