May/June 2004 edition of Arcturus now online

hi everyone,

I have uploaded the May/June edition of Arcturus to its own subdirectory within the FILES section of this board. The direct link to take you to the download is;

www.irishastronomy.org/user_resources/fi...46344-arc_may_04.pdf

many thanks to all those people who contribution to this edition. The feature articles include an interview with well-known astronomy author Phil Harrington, a tour of some seasonal double stars, the search for solar neutrinos, a history of comets, and the transit of Venus article reprinted from January's Arcturus because it is topical (and new forum members may not have read it previously).

as always, if you've any material you would like to contribute then feel free to mail me at any stage. I am out of the country from May 15th to June 7th though.

happy reading!

John Flannery,
SDAS

Hi,

Another great issue of Arcturus! I've been informed that there are a couple of small inaccuracies in the piece on the iSCAN meeting though. The following is a corrected version:

The Irish Science Centres Awareness Network has the theme of starting young for its next meeting, on 15 May 2004, at Collins Barracks, Dublin. Speakers will include Jerome Krause (formerly design director, Ontario Science Centre and consultant to the new Glasgow Science Centre) and Dr Christine Domegan and Carol Gleeson from Galway's new Children's Discovery Museum. More details of the meeting at www.iscan.ie/events.htm .

Cheers,
~Al

hi Al,

many thanks for the kind words and for the article as well for the current issue. Thanks too for those corrections -- it promises to be a very interesting iSCAN meeting but I'll miss it unfortunately. Isn't Phil Harrington's interview brilliant? It's a great read and his passion for the hobby shines through. Thanks again Shane for the piece.

re: the post about Irish astronomer of the year, I wonder would anyone donate us an asteroid to be named after the winner

will be sending out a post tomorrow about the forthcoming SDAS meeting this Thursday. We're also going to tie in with the IAS for the lunar eclipse event in Sandymount -- might see ya there . . .

John

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