Astro 299, Spring 2005
May 2
PDF of the earth-energy-balance article (link)
NASA press release for August launch of next Mars mission (link)
Bright Iridium Flares: May 2, 2 on May 3, an ultra-bright on May 6 (link)

April 27
The two Phil Morrison obituaries (link1) (link2)

April 25

SILOPHONE!!!   (link1) (link2)
i sometimes stumble into English, most often stumble into French at link2

Here are the 15th anniversary Hubble Telescope Pictures
http://www.stsci.edu/outreach/ (link)
Apparently, Flandrau is having a series of shindigs (link) that include
4x6 FOOT pictures of the 2 new photos. Aside from special events, I
THINK you can get in free with your CAT CARD.


Here are some books and websites about "Rainbows, Halos, and Glories"

Books:
COLOR AND LIGHT IN NATURE by David K. Lynch and William Livingston, 2nd edition
 Amazon has it new for 28 bucks, used (maybe 1st edition?) from $12.34
 Bookfinder.com has it used from $8.25

RAINBOWS,HALOS, AND GLORIES by Robert Greenler
You can buy the paperback version at his website for $30.00 plus shipping
http://www.blueskyassociates.com/books.html
Bookfinder.com has it used (hardback) for $41.00
Amazon has it used from $99.95, Amazon says it's out of print (it is now self printed)

ATMOSPHERIC HALOS by Walter Tape
You can get it at Greenler's site for $40.00
Bookfinder.com has it for $40.00 from Amazon (new)
Amazon  has it new for $40.00 with limited availability

SUNSETS, TWILIGHTS, AND EVENING SKIES by Aden and Marjorie Meinel
(his name is on our Optical Sciences building, many of the pictures in the book were
taken in his back yard in Tucson)
Amazon has it used from $6.02
Bookfinder.com has it used from $5.97

THE GREEN FLASH and Other Low Sun Phenomena by DJK O'Connell, SJ,
the former head of the Vatican Observatory. This book is a collector's item. I got my
copy from the current head of the Vatican Observatory and it's one of the great
presents I've ever gotten. I've had it on a want list at a rare science book shop for more
than a year before Father Coyne gave me a copy "from the basements in Rome."

It is currently not available at Bookfinder.com.
Amazon says it's out of print (yup).
Froogle.com claims you can get it from www.biblio.com for $70.00 but it's not there.

Websites:

0) A quite decent introductory site
       http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/mtr/opt/home.rxml (link many pages!)
1) Dr Andy Young's Green Flash page:  http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/ (link)
2) An atmospheric optics page http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm (link)
3) Another one I recently stumbled across http://meteoros.de/indexe.htm (link)
4) Dr Steve West's picture page (all taken around Tucson)           
       http://www.mmto.org/~swest/atmo/atmo.html  (link)
5) Not something we'll discuss today, but here's a great aurora website
       http://www.northern-lights.no/   (link)
       http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/  (link)

April 15
Here's the brown dwarf article (page1) (page2) (page3) (page4) (page5) (page6)

April 8:
1) Here's the PDF of an article on Japan's "Moon and Beyond" dreams:
     (link)

1a) Here's the PDF of an article from the April 8 SCIENCE on
       a weird stage of stellar evolution  (link)
1aa) The CNN version of that article (link)

2) Don't forget star party at Mt Lemmon 60" April 22.
     More information later.




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