The Official Publication of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton Director Ludy D'Angelo 609-882-9336 ludy@princetonastronomy.org Assistant Director Jeff Bernardis ... .com Editor Michael Wright (609) 371-5668 editors@princetonastronomy.org Also online at princetonastronomy.wordpress.com Volume 40 April 2011 Number 4 From the Director What does it mean to do astronomy ... It takes time. ... This second installment covers the telescope itself and its maker, Henry Fitz. ...

... ДЖОРДАНО БРУНО И ПРОБЛЕМА SETI . ... Джордано Бруно и Проблема SETI . ... Энергично выступая против аристотелевской системы мира, он создал "философию рассвета", основанную на идеях единства и бесконечности саморазвивающейся Вселенной, множественности миров во Вселенной и в этом контексте - множественности обитаемых миров. ... Основное для Бруно - не физико-астрономический, а {\it метафизический} образ мира. ... Основное внимание Бруно уделял альтернативной Аристотелю идее множественности миров. ...

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... The building is about 106 ft. long by 26 ft. wide and is divided into two parts: a shop area to the north, 54 ft. long by 26 ft. wide with parapet walls containing the control room, and the observatory area 52 ft. long by 26 ft. wide. ... Shop Wall Counterforts . ... The shop roof is suspended between parapet walls, that is, the walls are higher than the roof, to permit the observatory roof to roll unimpeded over the shop roof. ...

... ASTROPHYSICS 105 113 114 116 121 126 132 135 137 141 147 150 THE KINEMATICS PARAMETERS OF THE GALAXY USING DATA OF MODERN ASTROMETRIC CATALOGUES Akhmetov V.S., Fedorov P.N., Velichko A.B., Shulga V.M. .. ... Subsection "VIRTUAL OBSERVATORIES AND INTENSIVE DATA" 166 168 171 175 181 186 COMPARISON OF ZERO ZONE CATALOGUES OF THE FON PROGRAM BASED ON THE KYIV AND KITAB OBSERVATIONS Andruk V.M., Relke H., Protsyuk Yu.I., Muminov M.M., Ehgamberdiev Sh.A., Yuldoshev Q.X., Golovnia V.V. .. ...

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL COMMITTEE MATERIALS OF THE WORLD DATA CENTER B E.T. MATVEYEVA Catalogue of geomagnetic pulsations of Pc1 type on observation data at observatory Borok filial of UIPhE RAS 1957 -1992 Э.Т.МAТВЕЕВА Каталог геомагнитных пульсаций типа Pc1 (жемчужин) по данным наблюдений геофизической обсерватории Борок филиала ОИФЗ РАН за 1957-1992 г.г. Preface The ... C?- traces of Pc1. ... The Borok data given in [4] are included in the catalogue. ...

... Panoramic spectroscopy of the sample of 80 nearby lenticular galaxies is presented. ... By comparing the subsample of the S0s with the chemically distinct nuclei to the total sample of nearby S0s (Fig. 1), we have assured that the chemically distinct nuclei are always younger than the surrounding bulges: the mean age difference between the chemically distinct nuclei and their surrounding bulges is 2.8 Gyr while the age difference between the nuclei and the bulges for the whole sample is only 1 Gyr. ...

... 2 Telescop e finder Do not rely on that the nominal alignment of coordinate system Auto Alignment made on stars will serve a long time. ... The Meade telesc tages: 1) there is no possibility to common error in the telescope soft system, when telescope moving in ope parking using command :hP# has the following disadvanobtain information on the completion of this procedure, 2) a often leads to tripping-over a limiter and to loss of coordinate a horizontal coordinate system. ... Home Position. ...

... Роман Евгеньевич Ильинский email : ilinsky_r@mail.ru . ... Ильинский Р. Е., Ровенская Т. С. Дифференциалы луча в оптической системе // Вестник МГТУ. ... 1998.- ... Roman Ilinsky , Gradient-index meniscus lens free of spherical aberration, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, volume2, number 5, pages 449-451, year 2000 . ... Ильинский Р. Е. Определение реальных габаритов пучков в градиентных оптических системах // Прикладная оптика -2000: Тез. докл. ... 2000.- ... ROMAN ILINSKY . ...