Articles by or about AANC members

Articles by Chanan Greenberg, posted Oct 2009:

• Amateur Digital Astrophotography: the affordable end of the spectrum (PDF; 742 kb) - A practical guide on how to see beyond what meets the eye(piece) without being a zillionaire
• Building a Roll-Off Roof Observatory for under $1,400 (PDF; 1.4 Mb)

Christine Churchill's images:

• 2003 May issue Sky & Telescope -- image that appeared in : Full Moon rising, in the Valley of the Moon
• 2003 Jun 16 image of the waning Moon and Mars
• Astronomy Picture of the Day by Christine Churchill, "The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon"

Alex Filippenko, A Letter from the President of the ASP, Alex Filippenko

Jane Houston Jones

• Color of Stars
• Yosemite Tales
• Jupiter Features
• A Month of Sun Days--Observing and Sketching the Sun
• Counting meteors from the air—Our adventure on the 2002 Leonid Multi-instrument Aircraft Campaign - also, NASA's Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign (MAC)—http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov
  (Morris Jones and Jane Houston-Jones were on the flux measurement team for the 2002 Leonid storm
• AANC Leonids pages

Steve Mandel: shot of the Veil Nebulae area on ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY (APOD). See more of Steve's astro-imaging here

Marshal Merriam—Article: AN EARLY CALIFORNIA ASTRONOMER, GEORGE MADEIRA AND HIS OBSERVATORY

Memoriam

Carter Roberts, AANC Board member, passed away at age 62. 2008 April 24. Articles:

• Sky and Telescope - article
• Astronomy Magazine article
• 2007, WAA G. Bruce Blair Award winner
• Carter's spectacular Milky Way photo graces the web sites of the International Planetarium Society and the NASA Kepler mission

Albert Heppe passed away 2005 March 5 in his Glen Ellen home, having suffered a stroke earlier this year. He was 83. See Albert Heppe article from Sonoma Skies newsletter.

Bob Naeye—2003 August Astronomy Magazine article about the Yosemite Star Party program some AANC clubs participate in. It features images by members of the PAS and SJAA clubs. There is also a picture gallery on the Astronomy website with 52 pictures from various Yosemite events in the past.

J. M. Ryan: Planetarium Closure Marks End of an Era [for Morrison Planetarium] 2003 Dec.

Mike Ryan is seeing stars, By Alina Larson - Staff Writer, Oakland Tribune, 2003 Feb 10.

Bill Stepka (SFAA), You're Invited to a Star Party! in Golden Gate National Recreation AreaPark News. See also Starry, Starry Night article. 2003 Mar-Apr.

2002 Oct. Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, Pioneer Woman Astronomer -- Don Stone, EAS

2002 July 18 Shingletown Star party article in Sacramento Bee: Star Struck By Julie Ishida, Bee Staff Writer

Sidewalk Astronomers

• 2008 Apr 29 Producer's Notes on Amateur Astronomers/Sidewalk Astronomers, by Sheraz Sadiq
• Order DVD of A Sidewalk Astronomer from Jacobs, Entertainment, Inc.
• 2001 June 15-23 Sidewalk Astronomers Visit Grand Canyon Star Party Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon, Arizona--Stories and Photos)
• 2000 Dec 16 Article on John Dobson, by David Perlman of the San Francisco Chronicle

Fred Veio—The Spectrohelioscope Network http://www.spectrohelioscope.org/net/
Since 1970, Fred Veio has assisted many amateurs to build a spectrohelioscope (SHS) -- an instrument that allows you to image the sun in a very narrow band of color. His design is portable, compact, low cost, and was published in the January 1969 issue of Sky and Telescope. His book on SHS (which can be downloaded from this page) appeared in 1972, followed by three more editions. A self made SHS will cost about $600. If an optical company makes the optics, total costs will be about $2000, including the grating. A professional SHS with long focal length optics, intricate machine shop parts, about $15,000.00. Other sites:

• http://www.eyes-on-the-skies.org/shs (Mike Rushford, Livermore)
  
• http://www.astrosurf.com/spectrohelio Philippe Rousselle of France, in his archives
• plans for the 12 inch solar spectrscope are in the archives of this Yahoo shs site
• Spectrohelioscope by Leonard Higgins