[AZ-Observing] Re: Messier Pullout in March Issue of Astronomy
- From: "Jack Jones" <Telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:01:20 -0700
Also notice both March Sky&Tel and Astronomy magazines have announcements on
their Events pages about the upcoming All-AZ Marathon.
Jack
>Jimmy, nice to see the visibility about MM's especially here in Arizona.
>The web meister for the Messier Marathon Observer's Results
>(http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/marathon/results.html) Hartmut Frommert
>sent me e-mail the other day letting me know the AAMM is on the JPL Space
>calendar. See http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
Thanks and clear skies,
aj
>>---- Jimmy Ray <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The March issue of Astronomy has a very nice illustrated pullout of the
> Messier catalog. It has photo's of all the objects plus charts, positions
> and "fun facts" throughout. It also of interest to see that individuals of
> the Arizona amateur and professional astronomy community appear to be
> dominant Messier experts as there it a fair amount of text quoting Tom
> Polakis and Brian Skiff. It's interesting to note in the article that Tom
> now appears to live in Arizona city (Great, we can now stay at his house
> during the marathon) and Brian has a very nice margin piece on the naked eye
> object list he keeps (I'll have the try that one).
> There are a large amount of photo credits along the bottom of pages 6 and 7
> of the pullout so I wouldn't be surprised to see some other Arizona
> Astronomy notables. All in all a great little "keeper" just in time for AJ's
> messier marathon
>
> Jimmy Ray
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