[Friends_of_SSASTROS] Is it just me...

[Stephen LaFlamme]

Along those lines…
Astronomy Magazine this month has a great article by an amateur who retraced Edwin Hubble’s use of a Cepheid variable to find the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy.  Very much in tune with my club presentation last October. 
Steve L. 

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> On Aug 10, 2022, at 8:15 PM, Mike McCabe <cartech2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> ...or have the articles in the Reflector magazine been of particularly high quality lately?
> 
> We all get the magazine as a benefit of our club membership, and I'm not sure how many folks read it but in just this last issue I found several informative, entertaining reads. The first several pages of each issue are generally dedicated to League business, but after that come the contributing editor articles.
> 
> In the June 2022 issue alone there were articles on astronomical masers, the Webb mirror material development, historical astronomy literature, Charles Messier, observing the Sun, and using AL observing programs in the college classroom. 
> 
> Aside from the fact that the maser material was largely beyond me, I found the rest of the articles to be exceptionally enjoyable.
> 
> Anyone else feeling the vibe?
> 
> Mike M. 
> 
> 
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