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ALCon 2009 WILL BE IN THE NORTH EAST REGION!
AOSNY has won the bid!
After 70 years, the AL is bringing ALCON back to where it started, NY. AAA
ran the very first ALCON and now it is the AOS' turn to bring the AL back.
Mark JULY 30 - AUGUST 1, 2009 on your calendars. It will be held at
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY in the Town of Hempstead, on Long Island, NY, approximately 25 miles
east of New York City.
Speakers, vendors, trips and observing are all on the agenda plus
the grand banquet Sat night. We hope to encourage people throughout the
country to bring their families and spend the week so we'll be planning lots
of activities around these dates.
We'd love to see all of you and members of your organizations here in NY in
2 years.
Sue Rose
President
Amateur Observers' Society of NY, Inc
www.aosny.org
CALL FOR NEWS IN THE REGION!
GIVE US YOUR NEWSLETTERS FOR THIS WEBSITE!!!
Tell us about your club activities!
Or about individual member projects! This is your online community.
Take any good pictures lately? Have you had a successful star party?
Send press releases, pictures, snippets of news! Or excerpts and links to
your newsletters.
Let the region know about what you're doing!
Submit your doc files, rtf's, jpegs, tiffs, in an e-mail to the
webmaster.
Text can also be sent in the body of an e-mail.
Fairly large image files can be sent. Video files may need to be sent on a
CD or DVD or miniDV tape.
Or, JUST MAIL US A COPY
OF YOUR NEWSLETTER NOW AND THEN!
(Send to: NERAL, 93 Wiccopee Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579)
AOS Starfest 2008 a success!
If you'd like more information even photos, the person to contact would be the star party
chair, Geoff Cintron <geoffcin@aol.com>
http://www.aosny.org/
http://www.aosny.org/Starfest2008.htm
CALL FOR NOMINEES FOR THE
2009 WALTER SCOTT HOUSTON AWARD!
Do you know of an unsung hero of amateur or professional astronomy, who has
advanced the field with their research or writing or leadership talents? Or
activism in Light Pollution?
Telescope Making? Astronomy education? Maybe even a flair for history?
Please send a bio of anyone in the North East Region who you think should be
honored.
(NOTE: If in doubt, please send the
biography anyway. We may institute additional awards at some point
and we will keep all these bios on file for consideration during future
deliberations)
To get you thinking, be sure to include any facts concerning (but not
limited to)
Amateur or Professional activity in:
Astronomy Education,
Astronomy Research & Observing
Light Pollution Prevention
Authorship of books and articles, etc
History of Astronomy
Leadership activities in astronomy
Telescope Making or instrumentation
Club and/or professional affiliations,
if any
The nominees need not be from your organization, although they may be.
You are free to nominate anyone in our Region, from the northern half of
New Jersey to the tip of Maine.
Please let us know in the next several days. As complete a bio as
possible is absolutely necessary, so that the Board can vote, even if
they have never met the individual.
Web links can be noted as well.
Clearest and darkest of skies,
Maryann Arrien
Chair: NERAL
845-528-7420 home/office
KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE NORTH EAST
REGION!
JOIN THE NERAL E-MAIL LISTSERVE!
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