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HAD News, Your Envelope Has Disappeared 3.A. DmNews ZZBe Newsletter of the Ebtarical =&tronomy Divisian of the American btmnomical Society -A -A --., Number 44 my 1998 --.-.-el -.--. 1 ----.-, Pictoral Highlights of the January 1998 HAD Meeting i -,- -. -. - phoqpphed by Steven Dick (USNO) m. L -14 Dr.,Curtis WihAccepts the First LeRoy DoggeEt Prize for Historical Astronomy. The Certificate is Presented by Woody Sullivan, CWof the Ria Committee. Dr. Ian 33- Spealrs oa the Nabid @ur~;awof Stmdds Study into the AfFixts af Daylight Savings Tiare. San Diego, July '98 Win2: Monday morning "New ToLem~rurd New Tools" Chair:~~het (1) K. H. Olsen (GCSI) "&j@dng Computer Modding for the St~ctweand (1) Welcome - Ron An- d Bob Evolution of the Starsq Bmcaw (2) S. P, Mutsdd-r (LANL]"Marshal (2) rnl H*rrer (uc Irvhu) "Big Wmbel aad the EamnicComputer as an T~bpes.Theoretical Phyh, and the AsmmmiFal IaswaU Advawe d Astronomy 1910.1950" (3) D. H. DeVorkin (Smithsonian) "Where (3) Dan Osterbrock (UC Santa CmdLick) to Put It? The East-West Split over the Site "C3eorge Eflery Hale, Cd&h Astrophysics, for the 200-inch T~~csco~" and the Hala 2WihTelescope, 1920- 1948" (4) D. Osrwb~ock(UCSCXick) "The Chat Spherical AkdnFiasco of 1902 and its (4) S. George I3jorguvsk;i (Caltwh] "The Ahrmah: Testing a new Big Telescope in Fuhlre of Pd& San Digo" (5) Yuri N. Efremov (CIS)"The 6-meter Russian Reflector" Session 3: Monday afternoon "The AJ News from the Obituary Sesquicentennial" Corn mittee Chair: Paul Hodge The Chair reminds nominees for the office (1) W. Sullivan (Washington) Introduction of HAD Vice-Chair that the Vice-Chair also (2) M. Rothenberg (Smithsonian) is responsible for coordinating BAAS "Observers, Publication and Surveys: obituary notices during the two-year term. Astronomy in the United States in 1849" Virginia Trimble, HAD Vice-Chair (3) 0. Gingerich (CfA) "Benjamin Apthorp Gould and the Founding of the Astronomical Journal'' News from the Doggett Prize Corn mittee (4) D. Hoffleit (Yale) "The Astronomical Journal atYale" Doggett Prize Nominations Sought (5) K. Bracher (Whitman) "The The Doggett Prize Committee is seeking Astronomical Journal: A nominations for the second award (to be Mirror of Astronomy" announced in 1999) of the Prize; the first award was given in January to Curtis Wilson of St. John's College. The Prize is given for News from the extraordinary contributions to historical Arc heoastronomy Corn mittee astronomy and is open to all, whether or not AAS members or citizens of North America. Austin, January 1999: A Call for Papers Please send a letter of nomination and a C. K to Thomas Hockey, HAD Secretary- The session "Tools and Techniques of Data Treasurer and also Secretary of the Prize Collection and Reduction in Committee. Archaeoastronomy" will highlight the various methods used by scientists to collect Woody Sullivan, Chair data at a site that is claimed to have astronomical significance. Data-reduction techniques also will be considered. David G. Iadevaia, Chair From the HAD Chair At the January AAS Council meeting I reviewed the history of HAD activities, emphasizing the number of papers given at HAD sessions and trends in the types of papers presented. From the following listing, one can readily see that although we have maintained strong interests in modem history, mainly through carefblly planned thematic sessions, our level of activity in archaeoastronomy has dropped off, and we must take positive steps to reverse that trend. I also concluded the no matter what the area of history, our best sessions have been those that have been designed along clear thematic lines. David DeVorkin 'Table: History of HAD Activities Wmng Date Tot Pap Arch Classical Modem Appl Misc AAS lnv. 157 hnB1 19 10 3 5 1 158 159 Jan-82 160 161 Jan63 182 183 184 Jun-84 18 7 8 1 1 1 DEO 16s Jan-85 24 9 4 I0 1 168 Jun-85 1 167 Jan48 12 8 6 9 1 MAH 168 160 JW7 170 171 JsrrBB Lick cem. Panel 172 173 Jan68 HCOISAO ann 174 JuM 175 Jan-90 National Oh 176 Jun-OO Albuq. Archmo. Con1 in en-91 178 Jun-01 179 he2 180 Jun-92 1 0G Adler meeting 181 Jan-03 Archaeo Crit Pro& 182 Jun-03 Huntirnon 183 Jan-04 AstrdGlete 104 16!5 Jan-05 188 187 Jan-O(l Applied Conf, 188 Jun-06 Radlo history 189 Jan-97 Canadian obtmn 190 From the HAD Secretary News from the IAU, Commission 41 Notice that with this issue of HAD News, your envelope has disappeared. This was [Commission 41 celebrates it 50th done to reduce mailing costs. Please let me anniversary this year. Its first (somewhat know if any "unprotected" copies arrive in reluctant!) President was Otto Neugebauer.] poor condition. A red stamp on your address label indicates IAU Commission 41 On the Web that your HAD dues are unpaid. Please excuse and disregard this reminder if you Steven Dick, President have sent in your dues since the last AAS list was provided (February 1998). Thanks to the efforts of C 41 OC member Dr. Wolfgang Dick and the kindness of Prof. Thank you to fourteen HAD members who Peter Brosche in supplying space, responded to my request concerning the date Commission 41 is now on the WWW. You on which their News arrived viu bulk mail. may access it directly at Sent on February 18, 1998, the dates of http://www.astro.uni- receipt ranged from February 27 to March bonn.de/-pbrosche/iaucornm4 1. Or you 23! No geographical trend was evident. may link to it from the IAU Web site Clearly, a March 23 date is unacceptable for Commission page at a "February" issue. Hopefully, an earlier http://www.intastun.org/comrnissions.html. mailing date for the current issue will mean For now the C 4.1 site contains C 41 off~cers, thal all members get their May HAD News members and their current addresses, and in May. newsletters. We have plans in the hture to post the Bibliography on History of A copy of the revised HAD By-laws is Astronomy, compiled by Ruth Freitag of the attached to this issue. Thanks to Don Library of Congress. The C 41 site also Osterbrock and Sara Schecher Genuth for links to the history of astronomy site straightening out the situation regarding maintained for several years by the History affiliate status. of Astronomy Working Group of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, and now also Thomas Hockey maintained on behalf of Commission 4 1 . (address on your envelope) Phone: (3 19) 273-2065 Fax: (3 19) 273-7124 I: [email protected] Progress Report on the New (India), Professor Don Osterbrock (USA), Journal of Astronomical History and Professor Brian Warner (South Africa). and Heritage Subscriptions information is available from the Managing Editor on John Perdrix (Managing Editor) [email protected], while enquiries Wayne Orchiston (Papers Editor) regarding papers should be directed to the Papers Editor at: We are making good progress with the [email protected]. A "Guide for JAH2, and expect to see the first issue off Authors" is on the WEB at: http:// the press on schedule, in June. It will www.vuw.ac.nd-bankstlsoftware.htm1. feature the following research papers: Bruck, Mary T.: "Mary Ackworth Evershed News from the AIP Center for nee On (1 867-1949), solar physicist and Dante scholar" History of Physics Dick, Steve: "Observation and interpretation AIP Center for History of Physics of the Leonid meteors over the last Announces New Grants to millennium" Archives Orchiston, Wayne: "Mission impossible: Joe Anderson, Center for History of Physics William Scott and the first Sydney Observatory directorship" The Center for History of Physics of the Pasachoff, Jay: "Wil liarns College's Hopkins American Institute of Physics is pleased to Observatory: the oldest extant observatory announce a new program of grants to in the United States" archives to make accessible records and papers that document the history of modern We are happy to announce that in addition to physics and allied fields (such as astronomy, papers and book reviews, each issue of geophysics, and optics). Grants can be up to JAH2 will feature Ruth Freitag's on-going $10,000 each and can be used only to cover bibliographies on the history of astronomy. direct expenses connected with preserving, inventorying, arranging, describing, or The composition of the Editorial Board has cataloging appropriate collections. been finalized, and comprises: Dr. Dave Expenses may include acid-free storage Andrews (Northern Ireland), Dr. Alan materials and staff salaryknefits but not Batten (Canada), Dr. Allan Chapman overhead. (England), Dr. Steve Dick (USA), Dr. Wolfgang Dick (Germany), Professor Ben The AIP History Center's mission is to help Gascoigne (Australia), Professor Bambang preserve and make known the history of Hidayat (Indonesia), Commander Derek modem physics and allied fields, and this Howse (England), Professor Rajesh Kochhar new grant program is intended to help support significant work to make original I have not read the book in its entirety fiom sources accessible to researchers. cover to cover. However, I have scanned the Preference accordingly will be given to Index extensively and sampled very many medium size or larger projects for which the individual items and many whole pages. grant will be matched from other sources or Thus I can appreciate the first of the two of by the parent organization. To apply, send a Brian's statements and certainly agree with letter of no more than three pages describing the second. The variety in the choices of the research significance of the collection(s), asteroid names is often fantastic. plan of work, and budget, along with preliminary inventory (if available) and staff The Dictionary lists 7,04 1 asteroids for vitae to: Joe Anderson, Center for History which orbits have been determined.
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