... October Monthly Meeting . Dr. Hale Bradt, MIT . ... Astronomy Methods . This month’s meeting will feature Dr. Hale Bradt, Professor of Physics Emeritus MIT speaking on “The Instrumental Life of An X-Ray Astronomer: Chasing Neutron Stars and Black Holes.” ... Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. ... Other Monthly Meetings . ... Monthly Meetings . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

Journal of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York February 2010 Volume 58 Number 2, ISSN 0146-7662 EYEPIECE would have seen and what he wouldn't. For example, he wasn't sure what Saturn's rings were. When he looked at the Milky Way with a scope, he saw innumerable stars. ... Kepler also observed a system where the light curve from the orbiting body dips more during occultation than during transit, suggesting it's much hotter than its parent star, an odd situation for a planet-star system. ...

The low aspect ratio, or spherical tokamak Globus-M [1] has recently been built in a support of international spherical tokamak plasma investigation program. ... The survey to determine the work scope in diagnostic design for Globus-M is given in the paper. ... The next one is an advanced diagnostic set intended to supply the data on basic plasma parameters: electron temperature and density profiles, ion temperature, plasma composition, radiation profile, Zeffective. ... Magnetic Diagnostics. ...