Director: Rex Parker ( 609 ) 730-0670 drexparker@aol.com ereal times id s The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Treasurer: Ron Mittlestaedt ( 609 ) 771-6981 C8User@aol.com Secretary: Mark Jaworsky ( 609 ) 333-1130 MarkianSJ@comcast.net Program Chairman: Michele Novatski (856) 810-7385 Philenium020202@yahoo.com Editor: Victor Belanger ( 609 ) 448-8598 vic@apink.com Assistant Director: John Miller ( ... AAAP Meeting April 12 (8:00 Peyton Hall). ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York September 2008 Volume 56 Number 9, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE to communicate. ... Sykes said, "If you look at stars with exoplanets, if they were Earth mass and if round, [how do we know] they clear their orbit?" ... Planet Debate continued on page 10 Reminder: Urban Starfest Is September 6 The annual Urban Starfest takes place Saturday, September 6 in the Central Park Sheep Meadow from dusk to 10. ... September 29 New M oon a t 4: 12 a .m . ...

Converting Astronomical Spectra into Sounds: a Tool for Teaching and Outreach? ... In this paper, I present a new way of presenting spectra to the public: convert the electromagnetic spectra into sound spectra and let people listen to them. ... In these cases, the signals being converted to sound are acoustic pressure oscillations: they really are sound waves, simply needing their frequencies to be shifted into the audible range. ... 2 HOW TO TURN SPECTRA INTO SOUNDS: STEP BY STEP GUIDE . ...