SPECIAL EVENTS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jersey Astro Conference & Showcase
Scheduled for SAT Nov 7th 1998 from 8:30am-5:30pm
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Members of AAI (email & web sites), NJ Links, Weather & Search
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a seperate containing all the above to speed
up the front page and ease maintenance 9/23/98
Images from Peter Serrada in Maine
Pete sent me 3 photos of his new house, scope and astrophoto for
everyone to see
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Photo's from the David Malin Dinner & Lecture
Click here then click the filename (Photo's I took & Scanned)
Index of AAI Pages
Contact Information
Amateur Astronomer's Inc.
PO Box 111
Garwood, NJ 07027-0111
phone: 908 276 STAR
BBS: 908 709 0569
Emails and Contacts:
George Chaplenko, Corresponding
Secretary phone: 908-549-0615
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Meeting Information
AAI is open to the public on most Friday nites between 7:30 and 10:30pm
at the Sperry Observatory located on the
Union County College Cranford campus,
located at 1033 Springfield Ave.,
Cranford, NJ .
From September till April we have a speaker talk about an astronomical or
space-related topic on the THIRD Friday of the month [ see below ].
Starting usually around 8:30pm. Our business meeting starts at 8pm sharp.
Directions to Sperry & UCC
Take the Garden State Parkway (GSP), turn off at exit 137 (Rt. 28), take
28 WEST and follow the signs to Union County College (UCC). Bear to
your RIGHT passing Centennial Ave, and right before the Amoco gas station
turn RIGHT onto Springfield Ave (Rt 615). Then at an intersection (with a
traffic light) you will see the College on your LEFT at the THIRD
traffic light ABOUT 1 mile DOWN.
Enter the colleges parking lot to where it ends, and proceed to park.
If there is a lecture scheduled it will be either in the auditorium or the
North Lecture Hall [see below]. Otherwise make a left through the parking
lot and you should see the Observatory off a side road.
Map Blast's site clickable map
here for a clickable map of the area .
1998-1999 Season
AAI's Speaker Schedule 1998-1999
| Date |
Speaker/
Affiliation |
Topic |
Web Links |
09/25/98
4th FRI! | Stephen James O'meara, Sky &
Telescope |
Genesis at the Outer Limits |
Steve's new book on Messier objects
|
| 10/16/98 | Derrick Pitts, Fels Planetarium |
The Geology of the Planets |
Fels Planetarium
Geology 422/522:
Planetary Geology for Teachers
Brown Univ Geology
site
|
| 11/20/98 | Dr. Robert Donahue, Harvard University
|
Teaching an Old Telescope New Tricks |
Mt Wilson's Adaptive
optics
Dr. Donahue's site
|
| 12/18/98 | David Wittman, Bell Labs
NOTE: THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE MAIN LECTURE HALL IN THE NOMAHAGA
BUILDING |
The Big Throughput Camera - A Window on the Universe |
Big Throughput Camera in Chile
|
| 01/25/99 | Craig Small,AAI |
Chasing the Double Occultation |
|
| 02/19/99 | Ray Lucas, Space Telescope Science
Institute. |
The Hubble Deep Field and the NGST |
NGST
NGST (Goddard)
NGST (ESA)
|
| 03/19/99 | Irving Robbins, CSI Astrophysical
Observatory, Staten Island |
User friendly Asteroid Tracking and Hunting |
Near Earth Asteroid
Tracking (JPL-NASA)
Asteroid &
Comet
Tracking
|
| 04/16/99 | Jay Repsler,
S.T.A.R. Astronomy Club,
,Toms River, NJ |
Adventures In Satellite Watching |
Jay's page
S.T.A.R.
Astronomy Club
J-Track
Satellite
tracking
Satellite
Observing resources
|
| 05/21/99 | ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING
NOTE: THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN THE MAIN LECTURE HALL IN THE NOMAHAGA
BUILDING |
To be announced |
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