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Announcement (4/14/08)
NERAL 2008 Annual Meeting to be held at Stellafane
August 2, 2008 under the food tent at 4:00pm.
For directions and information about Stellafane see
www.stellafane.org

Announcement: (8/26/07)
ALCon 2009 to be hosted by the Amateur Observer's Society of New York!!
...see the Member News section for more info.

Announcement: (8/6/07)
Dr. Dan Green wins NERAL 2007 Walter Scott Houston Award!

Dr. Dan Green is best known for his professional work as Director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, and his work with comets, he is also the principal founder of the New England Light Pollution Advisory Group (NELPAG). The awareness of the problem of light pollution in our region has been greatly influenced by the efforts of the NELPAG group. Dr. Green also helped revising the draft Massachusetts Outdoor Lighting Bill, which we hope will be passed in the not too distant future.
 
We wish to congratulate you, Dan, on this award!
 
We thank you for your contributions to astronomy as well as all you have been doing to help protect dark skies here in our the North East.
You are highly deserving of this award, and appreciated by amateur and professional astronomers around the world, as well as here in your own region!
 
In memory of Walter Scott Houston, we salute you.
Maryann Arrien
Chair: NERAL
845-528-7420
arrien@optonline.net

The following is written on the plaque that was presented at Stellafane on Saturday, August 11, 2007.
(The award was accepted for Dr. Green by Dr. Mario Motta - video coming soon)

In Recognition of his many years of Service to Amateur and Professional Astronomy
as Director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
his Service to the Historical Astronomy Committees of the IAU and the American Astronomical Society,

his ongoing Contributions via Committee and Commissions within the International Astronomical Union,

his continuing Leadership for over 25 years organizing the Pro-Am Workshops on Cometary Astronomy,
his work over 3 decades as Editor of the world’s largest journal on comets, “The International Comet Quarterly”
his decades of Teaching to students, the general public, amateur and professional astronomers,
and Particularly his Visionary Work as the Principal Founding Member of NELPAG,
“The New England Light Pollution Advisory Group”
which has played a Pivotal Historical Role in the Battle against Light Pollution
in the North East Region of the United States
we hereby present this Award to
 

Daniel W. E. Green, Ph.D.

 

Presented this day, August 11, 2007 at Stellafane

In fond remembrance of Deep Sky Observer,

Science Writer and ATM Historian,

Walter Scott Houston.


 

 

 
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