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Editorial Chair's Report H A M I L T O N A M A T E U R A S T R O N O M E R S Volume 2 Issue 4 February 1995 can do, then look out -- we have a powerhouse on board! Editorial Chair’s Report s I read all these articles over After the latest General Meeting, ere we are, on the threshold of each month, (I do so, Grant) a record number of us went out to dine at February, and (so far) we've I’ve noticed something that the newly refurbished Kelsey's (used-to- had one of the mildest winters may confuse a reader from far be Chaps in Westdale). While all seemed I can remember. It seems to away. Throughout the winter, half of us to be well at the beginning of the party, it be loved by all, with the exception of us were commenting on the sub-zero wasn't long before the dreaded "egg- astronomers. We've had NO CLEAR termperatures and chilling observing disease" reared its ugly head. A raw egg SKIES to speak of -- that is until last sessions. The other half were pointing mysteriously appeared on the table, and night. And, wouldn't you know it, I had out this unusual mild winter we’ve been everyone had a go at trying to make it a prior commitment and COULDN'T having. So, what was it, freezing or stand on its end, even though the stars LOOK!!! mild? Well...yes, I mean, everyone is were no longer in alignment. Didn't right. And we have been experiencing matter -- it stood anyway. So much for However, it hasn't been exactly these completely opposing temperatures witchcraft and miracle cures. quiet in the HAA! Therefore, in on a by-weekly basis, one week of mild chronological order, let me elaborate ... and then a quick drop to brisk winds and Bill Tekatch hosted an the occasional flurry, for about a week. extremely successful Cosmology Group, First of all, Rachael Carson ran And not many clear breaks on any night. with the topic of "Life". It seemed the her first HAJA meeting, to critical But we’re not giving up. A few of us most difficult aspect of the topic was in acclaim. She was quite concerned have caught a bug from Ann. The defining it in the first place. John Feild afterwards that she hadn't done a very Variable Star bug. We can’t give up. pointed out that almost every currently good job, but I want to assure everyone accepted definition of "life" could be (and especially Rachael) that it was a I have to take a moment and satisfied with a description of "fire", magnificent effort, for a first-time or give Ev Butterworth the credit she so which implied that fire was alive. A most anytime! If this is the worst that Rachel rightly deserves. She writes a few heated (fiery?) debate ensued, arguing regular features in this newsletter, but whether fire was life or life was fire. even better than that, she always gets Discussion groups like this that inspire them to me more than two weeks before such braincell activity are a warm way of the deadline. Your an editor’s dream Ev, chasing Winter's doldrums. thanks. A bunch of us, along with some I guess that I say this same bit over and over again, thanking everyone Inside This Issue for submitting articles, and so on. Well, here I go again. I can’t help it, because ! EDITORIAL ! COMET BORELLY it’s those people who save my neck every ! CHAIR’S REPORT ! TELESCOPE MAKERS month. Imagine a 5 page newsletter - I can’t. Thanks everybody. ! SURF’S UP ! JUNIOR ASTRONOMERS GROUP Patricia Marsh ! NOTES FOR THE NOVICE ! UPWARD SKYBOUND [email protected] ! CELESTIAL CARTOGRAPHY ! HAA STAR PARTY ! GREEK IN THE ROUND ! COSMOLOGY CORNER Happy Valentine’s ! PEN PAL WANTED ! OFF THE BEATEN PATH ! WHAT’S YOUR I.O.? ! CD ROMS & SOFTWARE Page 2 Event Horizon members of the Aquaknights (a Keep spreading the gospel, Doug! renowned scuba diving club), jaunted off to the Cinesphere at Ontario Place last The Web page has had a few Surf’s Up! weekend to see a movie called Destiny in changes made to it, as those of you who Space. Imax treated us to the most regularly surf no doubt will have seen. sublime motion sickness by racing us All issues of Event Horizon from o you ever get the feeling that through the valleys of Mars and streaking September 1994 to January 1995 are over the surface of Venus a la computer you are living in California, I now online, as well as an enhanced mean, with all this talk about graphics, all to the accompaniment of weather page which now contains probably hundreds of speakers surfing? downloadable movies and images of everywhere blasting out the roar of Southern Ontario straight from the rockets. While this was certainly Well, for those local surfers, of satellites. So if you want to know if it's the net of course, I have come across impressive, I confess I found the raining, don't touch those drapes ... log "trailer", a little gem of a movie whose some Web home pages that may be of on! For those of you with an Internet some interest. name I am at a loss to remember, to be account, you should have received a the most fascinating. This movie was an detailed explanation of how to install the For the Amateur Telescope overview of the evolutionary processes software necessary to access the Web. If of life on Earth, with an emphasis on Makers there is a web site located at: you have an account, but didn't receive http://stargate.promus.com/public/ how interrelated and interdependent the info, it's probably because I don't humans and all other living things really ASTRO/scope.html know your address. So tell me, and I'll are. The movie referred to this symbiotic tell you! relationship as "the green contract". For the Radio Astronomy enthusiasts there is a web site at: These kinds of outings are fun for all Finally (whew!), I will indulge ages, and I would like to personally http://IRsociety.com/0c:/sara.htm| in a little nepotism (yea, even honesty), (the 0c is the number zero) thank Bob Botts and his Aquaknights by acknowledging the contribution of for including the HAA. (the htm| is the double bar, not the letter my wife's life as a Martian in the “L” - for some reason I can’t even get the composition of the article Pen Pal Later that same evening, Ev double bar to print on this newsletter ) Wanted in this month's issue. In the Butterworth hosted an observing past, Doreen has done yeoman's duty by workshop entitled Variable Stars, with Solar observers and eclipse going over my articles with a fine-tooth hunters may enjoy this web home page: Ann Tekatch as the guest speaker. I (lice) comb and modifying spelling and don't think it's any stretch of imagination http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdac.html grammar, and generally putting commas or to say that Ann held us rivetted for the where they ought to be. When it came to entire event. She finished the very http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/ the pen-pal article, I had lots of facts and predictions/eclipse-paths.html illuminating discussion about the nature an embryonic idea, plus a blank screen. of variable stars and the methods used to or It was the last item that threw me. It http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/ observe them with a mini version of didn't throw her. Thanks, Doreen! practical variable star observing. She eclipse/951024/rp.html I just finished downloading the showed us all that it is both easy and fun Grant Dixon to observe variable stars. We all decided image below of the May 10 1994 annular Chair solar eclipse. I also collected an image that it would be a great idea to have a "[email protected]" Variable Star Section in the HAA, and of the sun through an H-alpha filter. Nice. promptly awarded Ann with its ______________________________ leadership. So saying, we adjourned to the Phoenix to celebrate the birth. Check this one out. Any ideas whose home page this is? I know that NOBODY out there http://dogwood.physics.mcmaster. EVER has time to watch TELEVISION, ca:3001/Doug.html so my next question is probably moot, BUT ... did anyone happen to catch our In case you missed last month’s own famous physicist Doug Welch in his newsletter, here is our own home page on latest "15 minutes of fame" on the the web: Discovery Channel in mid-January? I http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/HAA/ understand that Coppola and Lucas are index.html vying for his signature on contract as I speak, but I'm hoping that he'll still have Patricia Marsh time for the HAA (or we'll relocate to Los Angeles, where the skies make Hamilton's look positively inviting). Page 3 Event Horizon Notes for the Novice ven if you are lucky enough to have a telescope, it cannot be used properly until you know where to point it. Without the knowledge of the brighter stars, and of the general positions of the constellations, the sky will never make sense. The main patterns of the constellations are not somewhere out in space. We are looking faces the day side of the Earth and cannot difficult to learn if you have the right from the north side of the orbit, and so be seen.
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