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An improbable set of coincidences lead to a special meeting of the RAC.

Secretary’s Blog, August 22, 2008 by Mark Lang On Monday Aug. 18, the Club got an email in the [email protected] mailbox from Lisa Corbett who along with her husband are members of the Wayne Co. Astronomy Club. Lisa, who works for the N.C. Dept. of Justice, has a co-worker friend Susannah Cox. It just so happened that Susannah’s father, Dr. Colin Cox, was to be in town visiting for the weekend. The Wayne Co. group had already met earlier in…

Introduction to Radio Astronomy

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My first serious look at Radio Astronomy came at the 2007 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers convention at Green Bank West Virginia. There they had speakers from the beginner like me to the more serious advance. It was there I signed up to learn how to operate the 40’ Student Radio Telescope. Tom Crowley introduced the group to radio astronomy by assigning teams and then giving each team a task. We learned how to find a radio source. Then we…

Safety of Green Lasers Pointers

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There has been a lot of discussion in the news regarding green laser pointers. The great concern recently has been that a terrorist might attempt to cause aircraft to crash by spotting one with a laser. This seemed ridiculous to me for a number of reasons, but because laser pointers are so commonly used by the amateur astronomy community (including myself), I wanted to understand the facts better. The following is what I found.

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