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From: rwhigham@mindspring.com (Russell Whigham)
Subject: ASTROFILES - October '96
ASTROFILES: October '96
Greetings Astrophiles,
OCTOBER MEETING
The October meeting of the Auburn Astronomical Society will be this Friday,
October 4, at 8:00 PM, in room 215 of the Aerospace Building, on the main
campus of Auburn University.
!!! Please note that this is a CHANGE of MEETING ROOMS !!!
Same building -- one floor down. Think of the time you'll save on the
elevator ;-)
Don't forget dues and magazine subscription renewals.
For the Montgomery area residents who would like to share a ride over
Auburn, we'll leave my house at the usual time of 7:00 PM.
LAST MONTH'S MEETING
Thanks to Carole Rutland and the staff at CCSSC, for the presentation of
their new facility. Sorry I had to miss it. Plans are in the works for a
group visit to CCSSC in the near future.
Also, Allen reports that there was some discussion of purchasing a CCD for
the club.
WELCOME
We've had several folks added to this month's mailing list. First, a couple
of familiar names: MIKE FULMER (rainmkr@syl.mindspring.com) and erstwhile
member, FRANK MOON (thufir@ix.netcom.com).
Mike finally succumbed to our peer pressure, pulled out the plastic, and is
now online with his new Pentium. He has already mastered "Eudora", and
reports suffering from the avocational hazard of every new user... sleep
deprivation.
Frank found us on "SKY & TELESCOPE'S" web site under the club listings.
He's living in Frederick Maryland now, still doing some astronomy, but
expresses that he misses the AAS star parties and Deep South Regional Star
Gazes.
If you're curious about these two cryptic user names, drop'em a line and ask.
JIM WERT (jwwert@aol.com) lives in Columbus and is Vice President of
Marketing for Mead Coated Board Division in Phenix City. Carole Rutland
reports that Jim was in part responsible for the Mead Observatory at the
Coca-Cola Space Science Center. Hope you can make it over for a meeting
soon, Jim.
BOB CARDEN, has recently moved to Montgomery from Atlanta. Bob is with the
American Red Cross. He has already visited with us at the September star
party. Now that's the kind of enthusiasm we're looking for!
NEAL MURPHREE (NMurphree@aol.com), from here in Montgomery has expressed
interest in our group. Come give us a try, Neal.
SEPTEMBER STAR PARTY
We had our first clear star party in months a couple of weeks ago. In
attendance at Holley's Field were: Marc Schrier, Bob Carden, Robert Rock,
Larry Adams, Mike Fulmer, Allen and Christy Screws, John Shaw and yours
truly. Of course, we had a look at comet Hale-Bopp, as well as several old
celestial friends. Robert tried out his new digital camera. Some of the
shots didn't "turn out", but with a little scrounging, we now have a few of
our beautiful faces to show off to the world. Look under "Members and
Friends" from the main menu on the AAS web site, and click on "(photo)"
below the members' names. If your picture isn't there, we'll get you soon.
If you already have a JPG or GIF of yourself, or you and your telescope,
just send me a note and the photo as an attached file, and I'll add it to
the web site photo album. If you don't, I'm going to download the photo
from your dirver's license from the Probate Office ;-)
TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
Although not a group event, the eclipse was seen, at least by those of us in
the Montgomery area, as clouds parted just in time for the main event. My
impression was that the eclipsed moon was somewhat darker than usual. I'm
guessing that Robert will have some pictures to share at the meeting. I
hope the weather was as cooperative at Callaway Gardens.
OCTOBER STAR PARTY
The star party for October will be on Saturday, Oct. 12. Robert, Mike and
myself will be leaving the Thursday before, for McComb MS. For those of you
who will not be at the Deep South Regional Star Gaze, Holley's Field will be
open for business.
Post Script to October Astrofiles
If you have THE_SKY or other comet plotting software, Copy and Paste in the
orbital elements. Tabur (discovered August 19) will be in the bowl of the
Big Dipper on the weekend of this month's star party and will be Mag 5 - 6.
Comet Data
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; | Epoch | Eccent| Perih| Orbit|LongAsc|Argumnt|Eclip|
;Comet Name |yyyy mm dd.ddd| e|Dist q|Incl i|Node ךר|Peri w|Epoch|
;-------------+--------------+--------+------+------+-------+-------+-----+
Hale-Bopp 95O1 1997 04 01.146 0.995088 0.9141 89.428 282.470 130.590 2000
Tabur 1996-Q1 1996 11 03.508 0.999999 0.8402 73.348 31.422 57.361 2000
Hyakutake96b2 1996 05 01.3960 0.999706 0.2300124.912 188.043 130.204 2000
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See you at the meeting,
Russell
Russell Whigham
Montgomery AL
rwhigham@mont.mindspring.com
Auburn Astronomical Society
http://www.mindspring.com/~rwhigham/