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Our Next Meeting:
February 8, 2012
Franklin Institute 7:15 pm.
DR. ROBERT HICKS
Celestial Navigator
Author
Director of the Mütter Museum
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Voyage to Jamestown explores how sea
navigation was accomplished during the era of discovery. Navigational
methods and tools are presented within the setting of their use during a
sea voyage of the period. While this voyage features a fictional crew
and ship, it is carefully reconstructed from actual events,
circumstances, narratives, and historical figures, which demonstrates
the challenges of marine navigation within the cultural experience of
people who actually traveled the oceans centuries ago. The fictional
voyage follows the merchant galleon Guyft from Bristol,
England, to Virginia in 1611, captained by Tristan Hame. With this
narrative technique, the reader can absorb seafaring and navigation as
practiced in the seventeenth century as if they were on board the ship.
Navigational theory, methods, and instrumentation of the era are all
engagingly presented within economic, political, scientific, and
religious contexts to portray how the early navigator experienced his
world.
U.S. Naval Institute website. |
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To prepare for our
February 8 meeting, you may want to purchase Dr. Hicks
recent publication "Voyage to Jamestown." Review
and purchase information can be
found at the
U.S. Naval Institute website. |
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Coming:
MARCH 14, 2012
Franklin Institute 7:15 pm.
Mike Maguire
President
Bucks County (Warminster Area),
Pennsylvania
Open the 1st and 3rd Sunday each month (1:00 - 4:00 PM.) |
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Centrifuge gondola car, Johnsville
Centrifuge and Science Museum
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 Congratulations
to Ted Williams. Ted joins Dr. Kremer and Dr. Pitts as a
NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador. We cannot find any other
astronomical society that can boast that it has 3 members of this
distinction! RAS has some amazing professionals within it's ranks,
and we can all benefit from their expertise! Thanks to Ted for his
support of our group at our meetings, Ken for representing RAS in person
at many recent shuttle and rocket launches, and Derrick for his guidance
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Derrick Pitts Chief Astronomer
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Congratulations to Dr. Derrick H. Pitts.
La Salle University recently conferred an honorary degree as
Doctor of Science to one of our longtime members, Derrick Pitts.
His work as spokesperson for International Year of Astronomy, and the
amazing refurbishment of the Bloom Observatory come to mind
immediately as two recent accomplishments (and there are many
more) worthy of this honor. The degree was conferred "In
recognition of his deep knowledge of astronomy and his extraordinary
ability to share the beauty and complexity of the universe with
others." |
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Meeting
dates and guest presenters for this academic year are posted here.
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Dave
Walker has assembled some photo albums of some of our previous
events and meetings. We have linked to it
here for your review. He has also shared some recent
astro-photos of celestial events. |
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This Past JANUARY 11, 2012
Franklin Institute 7:15 pm.
DR. KEN KREMER
Universe Today
Space Flight Magazine Correspondent
NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador |
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8 Years of Mars Rovers
& The Search for Life - Mars & Vesta in 3 D”
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Credit: Marco Di Lorenzo, Douglas Ellison, Bernhard Braun and Kenneth
Kremer.
NASA/JPL/Cornell/Aviation Week & Space Technology |
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Dr. Ken
Kremer is a freelance science journalist, speaker, scientist and
photographer whose articles and images have been widely
published in magazines, books and websites including NASA,
Astronomy Picture of the Day, ABC, NBC and Fox News, Scientific
American, Astronomy, Spaceflight Now, Planetary Society,
Universe Today and the covers of Aviation Week & Space
Technology and Spaceflight magazines. His mosaic of Opportunity
at a Martian crater was selected as one of the 100 best Space
images of 2011 by Astronomy magazine. Dr. Kremer has presented
at numerous educational institutions, civic and religious
organizations, museums and astronomy clubs including the
National Air & Space Museum and Princeton University. He has
reported first hand from the Kennedy Space Center and lectures
on both Human and Robotic spaceflight. He will have a selection
of his Shuttle and Mars images for sale as postcards and
frameable prints.
Ken Kremer websites:
www.kenkremer.com |
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Congratulations Dr. Kremer, the photo-mosaic below
was recently published on
Astronomy Picture Of the Day December 12
2011!
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Our NOVEMBER 9, 2011 Meeting
Dr. Hanno Rein
Institute of Advanced Studies - Princeton
NJ.
Application Creator / Designer "EXOPLANET"
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November 9, 2011~
The Dynamics of Extrasolar Planets
by
Dr. Hanno Rein
Application Creator & Editor of the
Exoplanet Application.
Hanno Rein studied Astrophysics at Cambridge University and
is now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey. |
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I will present several examples of planetary
systems that I have worked on, using a variety of techniques, such
as the 400 year old theory of orbital dynamics as well as modern
supercomputers. The picture to the left shows the plot of two
planets interacting with a proto-planetary disc. |
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Thanks
to Dr. Mitch Struble (first to discover "StarPiles" ) for an excellent
presentation to our members at our October meeting. Perhaps some of his findings will spur
on future papers and further research on what appears to be a most amazing
structure! |
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A FORS1 V image
published in a paper by Ricardo Salinas
and colleagues from ESO, Lick & Bonn |
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This
past SEPTEMBER 2011 meeting: A listing of clips and
movies Laura shared is provided on our
Members Network.
So many asked for the list that we thought we would put it on line for
us to share. If you are a member and not in our
Members Network, please
contact us! |
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