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In This Issue (JALPO54-2 - Free.pdf): Minutes of the ALPO Board Meeting in Las Cruces (Finally!) ALCon2012 news Update on the June 5 transit of Venus Lightcurves for main belt minor planet 27 Euterpe Saturn apparition report, plus ALPO section news and much, much more! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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In This Free Issue (JALPO54-1
- Free.pdf): News about this summer's ALCon2012 event in Chicago What's REALLY up with those Venusian clouds? Whole-disk brightness measurements of Mas Is there a "Great White Spot" on Saturn The Remote Planets in 20120 and 2011 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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In This Free Issue (JALPO53-4Free.pdf): Minutes of the ALPO Board Meeting in Las Cruces The comings and goings of Mercury in 2010 -- all six times! Double-Digit observations of the Moon for even more appreciation The rotation period of minor planet 280 Philia finally established Observations of Jupiter in 2009 and 2010 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is not password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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In This Issue (JALPO53-3.pdf): Final reminder on ALPO 2011 at Las Cruces Retrospective on the Mars Flashes expedition of 2001 All you need to know about the current (2011-2012) Mars apparition Index to Volume 52 (2010) of The Strolling Astronomer Lunar feature spotlight: Montes Harbinger . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access this and previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO Membership Secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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In This Free Issue (JALPO53-2
- Free.pdf): The latest details on ALPO 2011 at Las Cruces A look at how founding member Elmer Reese contributed to our understanding the famous Jupiter SEB Life on the Moon! Read what the greats had to say about it Apparition reports: Jupiter in 2008 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access this and previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO Membership Secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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In This Free Issue (JALPO53-1
- Free.pdf): Founding member Elmer Reese passes away; a look at his contribution to understanding the famous Jupiter SEB Making a solar eclipse sojourn really pay off Lunar Selected Area photometry for everybody Apparition reports: Mercury in 2008 and Venus in 2007-08 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access this and previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO Membership Secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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In This Free Issue (JALPO52-4
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In This Free Issue (JALPO52-3
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In This Free Issue (JALPO51-2-
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In This Free Issue (JALPO51-1
- Free.pdf): Hail 2009! The International Year of Astronomy! A possible explanation of strange cloud formations on the terminator of Venus A summary of photometric and polarization studies of Mars from 2005 - 2008 Apparition report: Saturn 2005-2006 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. For password information to access newer online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO Membership Secretary at will008@attglobal.net. Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staff members PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is not password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access this and previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO Membership Secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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In This Free Issue (JALPO50-4-Free.pdf
): Minutes of the ALPO board meeting at ALCon Expo 2008 First detections of the North Polar Cap of Mars Observing the Quadrantids from 47,000 feet A report on the 1997-98 Galilean Satellites eclipse timings Book review: A New Atlas of the Moon The Telescope Grid Project Sunspot activity during Cycle 23 A report on the 2006-2007 Remote Planets apparitions . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staff members PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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ALPO 2009 desk calendar in the works!! Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is not password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net. |
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In This Free Issue (JALPO50-2-Free.pdf ): A Call-for-Papers for presentation at this summer's ALCon Expo 2008 / ALPO Conference in Des Moines, Iowa Index to Volume 49 (2007) of The Strolling Astronomer Book review: The Sun Kings The ALPO Banded Craters Observing Program A report on the 2003-2004 Jupiter apparition A report on the 2006 Mercury apparitions . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is not password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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Mars takes a hit! (Maybe) Observing Alert for ALL ALPO members!
Show your ALPO pride with the new ALPO Lapel Pin!
Book review on webcam imaging by Robert Reeves
Report on the lunar eclipse of last August
Comets Holmes and Tuttle What a show!
Report on solar Carrington Rotations 2040 thru 2050
Report on the 2004-2005 Saturn apparition
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO49-4-Free.pdf
): * The official record of our board meeting in Calgary * Index to Volume 48 of your ALPO Journals * A review of a new Saturn observing guide by our own Julius Benton * A report on the Venus 2003-2004 Venus apparition * X marks the spot (on the Moon, that is) * A report on the Mars dust storm of 2007 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO49-3-Free.pdf
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO49-2-Free.pdf
): * Book Review: The Planets, By Dava Sobel * Two projects for the backyard astronomer: A Homebrew SCT Collimation Tool; ScopeBuggy Mount * Solar Report on Carrington Rotations 2031 thru 2036 * Report on the current Mars apparition * Apparition report on Saturn 2003-2004 . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO49-1-Free.pdf
): * The reliability of lunar drawings by Wilkins * Apparition reports on Mercury and Jupiter * Eye position and the brightness of Saturns rings * Index to The Strolling Astronomer, Volume 46 * Book Review: Collins Atlas of the Night Sky . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO48-4-Free.pdf): * Mercury crosses the Sun (and lives to tell about it!) * Enigmatic lunar craters learn all about em!! * Apparition reports on Venus & the Remote Planets * ALPO Conference 2006 Door Prize donors . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more Use the various e-mail addresses and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is not password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO48-3-Free.pdf): * Uh-oh! Where'd Pluto go? Ask the IAU. They're the ones who rearranged our planetary neigborhood! * A look back at ALPO Conference 2006 in pictures and official procedings. * Venus & Jupiter apparition reports from some of the most dedicated observers anywhere. * ALPO Founder Walter Haas ponders a 57-year period between outbursts on Saturn. . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more. Use the various e-mail address and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue is not password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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| In This Free Issue (JALPO48-2-Free.pdf): * ALPO conference 2006 web site now online! * Scientific Interests in the Planet Mercury * Index to Volume 45 of The Strolling Astronomer * Apparition reports on Saturn and the Remote Planets * A report on a lunar dome near crater Hyginus . . . plus reports about your ALPO section activities and much, much more. Use the various e-mail address and other hyperlinks (in blue text) to instantly e-mail authors and ALPO staffmembers PLUS instantly jump to various Internet sites named throughout the issue. This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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In This FREE Issue (DJALPO45-3-free.pdf): This issue IS NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com. For password information to access previous online issues of the ALPO Journal or for information on becoming an ALPO member, please contact the ALPO membership secretary at will008@attglobal.net.
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A beautiful color image of a Leonid fireball taken with an ordinary 35 mm camera from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, PLUS a report the November 2001 Leonid meteor shower from the ALPO Meteors Section coordinator, a report on a lunar dome in the Apennine region south of the lunar crater Archimedes, reports on Venus and Saturn, a book review, ALPO observing section reports and much, much more. Note that this issue is NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com.
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In This Free Issue (DJALPO43-1-free.pdf): In 1896, Percival Lowell revealed his belief that markings he saw while observing Venus "radiate like spokes" as shown in one of his drawings. Compare this with an image taken April 30, 1999 by Frank J. Melillo using a Celestron 8-inch Starlight Xpress MX-5. See report by Richard Baum inside. Also . . . A new Journal of the ALPO debuts, report on the Mercury transit, a tour of the lunar Aristarchus Plateau, Mars perihelic apparition report, observing Phobos and Deimos, report on a new solar filter, book review on "Wide Field Astrophotography", plus ALPO section news, a Call-for-Papers for the ALPO/ALCON conference and much, much more. This issue includes 5 ways to electronically navigate through the pdf file: Single-click on electronic "bookmarks". Double-click on page "thumbnails". Single-click on table-of-contents entries. Designate a specific page in the status bar at the bottom of the screen (and then press Enter). Use the various buttons (Up Arrow, Down Arrow, Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Next Page or Previous Page) on your keyboard. Note that this issue is NOT password-protected but it DOES require the free utility Adobe Reader (Version 6.0 or higher) available at www.adobe.com.
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