[AZ-Observing] Re: Epsilon Aurigae
- From: "Jennifer Polakis" <m24@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:05:37 -0700
I bought Jeff's book at the recent Southwest Astrophysics Meeting at Stan
Gorodinsky's Blue Hills Observatory in Dewey.
At the risk of sounding like an infomercial, it's a great book. There are
plenty of graphs & illustrations that are helpful in understanding some
complex ideas, extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, helpful
glossary and index. I'm just through the history of observations of Epsilon
Aurigae and it was fascinating. The book takes you as far as you want to
delve--I mean I don't think I'm planning on buying a spectrograph for the
2009-2011 eclipse but it will be nice to have some idea about the magnitude
changes of this little kid star in Auriga. It's also nice to know if I have
a question I can just write to Jeff, and who knows, maybe I'll invest in an
astrograph by the next eclipse in 27 years!
Jennifer Polakis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hopkins" <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:52 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Epsilon Aurigae
Hi Rick,
Sure. Has Mike been observing it? If so how, photometry, spectroscopy
or what? My recent book on epsilon Aurigae is pretty comprehensive.
Lots going on out-of-eclipse and from past data it looks like things
are happening that may end in an astronomical catastrophe in our life
time. Very interesting system and it is 3rd magnitude star well place
for the northern hemisphere. See
http://www.hposoft.com/EAur09/EAurPressRel0608.html
If you have any questions, just let me know.
Jeff
At 14:11 -0700 09/20/2008, Rick Tejera wrote:
>Jeff,
>
>I plan to run an article on Eps Aur by Mike Simonsen in the next issue of
>the NL. I'd be interested in your opinion once it runs.
>
>Clear Skies
>
>Rick Tejera
>Editor SACnews,
>Public Outreach Coordinator
>Saguaro Astronomy Club
>Phoenix, Arizona
>www.saguaroastro.org
>saguaroastro@xxxxxxx
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