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!
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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