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

• Sky and Telescope - http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/18360994.html
• Astronomy.com - http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/2008/04/25/carter-w-roberts-1946-2008.aspx
• 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

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

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

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

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

• 2003 Dec. J.M.Ryan: Planetarium Closure Marks End of an Era
  [for Morrison Planetarium]
• 2003 August Astronomy Magazine has an article by Bob Naeye 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.
• 2003 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"
• 2003 Mar-Apr. Bill Stepka (SFAA), You're Invited to a Star Party! in Golden Gate National Recreation AreaPark News. See also Starry, Starry Night article.
• 2003 Feb 10 Mike Ryan is seeing stars, By Alina Larson - Staff Writer, Oakland Tribune
• 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

• Jane Houston Jones
• 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

• 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