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	Royal Astronomical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV.
		The society acts as the professional body for astronomers and geophysicists in the UK and fellows may apply for the Science Council's Chartered Scientist status through the society.
		The Society represents the interests of astronomy and geophysics to UK national and regional, and European government and related bodies, and maintains a press office, through which it keeps the media and the public at large informed of relevant developments in these sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society (611 words)

	Encyclopedia: Royal Astronomical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics.
		The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of investigating the mineral structure of the Earth.
		Nigel Oscar Weiss (born South Africa, 16 December 1936) is an astronomer and mathematician, and leader in the field of astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Astronomical-Society (1839 words)

	Historical Astronomical Posts in Britain and Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The term Astronomer Royal for England is sometimes used distinguish the title from that of the Astronomer Royal for Scotland or the historic title of Astronomer Royal for Ireland (or Royal Astronomer for Ireland), but this title is informal.
		In 1972 the title Astronomer Royal was disconnected from the position of Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory: the Astronomer Royal had been director of the Observatory from the origin of the title.
		The title Astronomer Royal for Scotland was disconnected from the position of Director of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh in 1990.
	brynjones.members.beeb.net /histastron/posts_gbi/posts_gbi.html (3565 words)

	ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal_Charter from William IV.
		The society acts as the professional_body for astronomers and geophysicists in the UK and fellows may apply for the Science Council's Chartered Scientist status through the society.
		The first person to hold the title of President of the Royal Astronomical Society was William_Herschel, though he never chaired a meeting, and since then the post has been held by many distinguished astronomers.
	www.witwib.com /Royal_Astronomical_Society (538 words)

	History - Astronomers - HerschelJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the age of 21 John was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society due to his remarkable mathematical talent.
		In 1826 the Royal Society awarded him and South a gold medal apiece for their observations of double stars.
		He discovered - and described to the Royal Society on 14 March 1839 - the photographic importance of sensitised paper, and he was the first to use "hypo", or hypo sulphite of soda, as a fixing agent.
	www.saao.ac.za /assa/html/his-astr_-_herschel_j.html (2906 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society: Admiral William Henry Smyth
		It is particularly interesting to Members of the Royal Astronomical Society to observe that it was during the Survey of the Mediterranean that Captain Smyth confirmed that intense love of Astronomy which he retained through life, and to the advancement of which he afterwards devoted many of the best years of his life.
		Every member of the Society will join with your Council in the expression of sympathy with his bereaved widow and family, and in their admiration of one who was both great and good.* [I. * The writer acknowledges his obligations to Sir John Herschel and the Astronomer Royal.
		President of the Geological Society of London in 1866-1868 and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-admiral-obit-RAS.htm (3498 words)

	EDWIN HUBBLE 1889-1953 By Allan Sandage (1989, JRASC Vol. 83, No.6)
		But because part of his life has also become a myth, it is only from a study of his published papers that can we obtain a reasonable understanding of his enormous influence on the development of cosmology.
		There is Hubble's zone of avoidance, the Hubble galaxy type, the Hubble sequence, the Hubble luminosity law for reflection nebulae, the Hubble luminosity profile for E galaxies, the Hubble constant, the Hubble time, the Hubble diagram, the Hubble redshift-distance relation, the Hubble radius for the universe, and now the Hubble Space Telescope.
		He solved the problem of the source of radiation and the nature of the spectra of diffuse nebulae, recognizing the difference between emission and reflection nebulae (Hubble 1922a, b), and proving that the source of radiation of reflection nebulae is an associated star.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /diamond_jubilee/1996/sandage_hubble.html (4767 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Frank Dyson
		Dyson spent his entire career, except for five years in Edinburgh, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, where he was Astronomer Royal from 1910 - 33.
		Royal Astronomical Society, Gold medal, 1925, presented by J.H. Jeans, MNRAS 85, 672 (1925).
		Aitken, R.G. Eddington, A.S. Obituary Notices of the Royal Society of London 3, 159-72 (1939-41).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/dyson/Dyson.html (191 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society (London)
		The reasons given by Herschel point to the fact that it was due to the lack of progress in mathematics and the mathematical side of astronomy in Britain.
		Clearly, although Herschel had seen the great benefits of such an undertaking, on reflection he had realised that it was something too major for the new Astronomical Society (or any other body at that time) to undertake.
		It was during the first year of the Society's existance, in November, that they began to hold their meetings in rooms belonging to the Medical and Chirurgical Society in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Astronomical.html (1082 words)

	SPACE.com -- Universe Expansion is Accelerating, UK and Australian Researchers Say
		A team of UK and Australian astronomers has discovered new, independent evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
		Three years ago, two teams of astronomers rocked the scientific world by finding evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating rather than slowing down as had generally been expected because of the gravitational attraction between the matter within it.
		The great Cambridge astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was convinced of its existence, arguing that the cosmological constant distinguished between the vast size of the observable universe and the tiny scales of subatomic particles.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/universe_expansion_020320.html (554 words)

	General Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Browning, John, "On a Spectroscope in which the Prisms are automatically adjusted to the minimum angle of deviation for the particular Ray under examination," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 30 (1870): 198-202.
		Rosse, Lord [Lawrence Parsons], "On the Radiation of Heat from the Moon," Proceedings of the Royal Society 17 (1869): 436-44.
		Royal Society, Correspondence of the Southern Telescope Committee (Royal Society: London, 1871).
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/huggins/bib.html (7632 words)

	UCT Research Report 2002 - AST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 114:129-131.
		Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 261:567-568.
		Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 261:406-415.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dri/resrep02/science/ast/ast04.html (646 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Astronomers find nearest galaxy to the Milky Way
		The research is to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society within the next few weeks.
		In this way, the astronomers found the main dismembered corpse of the dwarf galaxy in Canis Major and long trails of stars leading back to it.
		Astronomers currently believe that large galaxies like the Milky Way grew to their present majestic proportions by consuming their smaller galactic neighbours.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0311/04canismajor (1059 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Regina Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1868 a small group of amateur astronomers formed the Toronto Astronomy Club.
		In 1903, King Edward VII gave his permission for "Royal" to be included in the title and the Society became the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
		The Regina Centre was formed in 1910 by a group of amateur astronomers in Regina that were interested in Halley's Comet.
	www.regina.rasc.ca (173 words)

	Planet X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Intrigued by the fact that long-period comets observed from Earth seem to follow orbits that are not randomly oriented in space, a scientist at the Open University in the UK is arguing that these comets could be influenced by the gravity of a large undiscovered object in orbit around the Sun.
		Writing in the issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society published on 11th October, Dr John Murray sets out a case for an object orbiting the Sun 32,000 times farther away than Earth.
		(One astronomical unit is approximately the average distance between the Earth and the Sun.) They reach Earth's vicinity in the inner solar system when their usual, remote orbits are disturbed.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/planetx.html (434 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Toronto Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The beginnings of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada go back to the middle of the nineteenth century with the founding of the Toronto Astronomical Club in 1868.
		The Society was incorporated within the province of Ontario in 1890, received its Royal Charter from King Edward VII in 1903, and was federally incorporated in 1968.
		An applicant may affiliate with one of the Centres of the Society across Canada, or may join the Society directly as an unattached member.
	openweb.ca /~rasctoronto/info.html (385 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's 2003 General Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The romance of the stars is not lost on any of us, its science however is more closely guarded, and therefore we are all grateful to this Society for bringing ever closer the vital understanding of our place in the universe and why the heavens must remain accessible.
		Your society membership is also to be commended on its vigour and participation in its regular contributions across the gamut of astronomical phenomena.
		When that famous 'Eagle landed', our human spirits 'soared' and I suspect many a member of your society and many who were yet to be born, were inspired in their determination to add to the sum total of human knowledge in the most extraordinary challenge to human endeavour of viewing ourselves within a cosmic concept.
	www.ltgov.bc.ca /whatsnew/sp/sp_jun28_1_2003.htm (1434 words)

	Article
		Robert Garfinkle is author of "Star Hopping: Your Vista to Viewing the Universe." He is the Lunar Section Historian for the British Astronomical Association and is on the editorial staff of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers.
		Ewen Whitaker is author of "Mapping and Naming the Moon." Now retired, he was formerly an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Yerkes Observatory, and the Lunar and Planetary Institute (University of Arizona).
		One of his major achievements was to calculate by hand the precise location of the Surveyor-3 spacecraft, which enabled the Apollo 12 astronauts to land alongside it and return parts to the Earth.
	www.sas.org /tcs/weeklyIssues/2004-08-13/editorial (520 words)

	The Bruce Medalists: Harold Spencer Jones
		Educated at the University of Cambridge, Harold Spencer Jones was successively astronomical assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, His Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, and, from 1933 to 1955, director of the Royal Observatory and Astronomer Royal.
		After World War II he supervised the move of the Royal Observatory to Herstmonceux, where it was renamed the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
		Royal Astronomical Society, Gold medal, 1943, presented by S. Chapman, MNRAS 103, 116-17 (1943).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/spencerjones/SpencerJones.html (267 words)

	B-P's Uncle: Charles Piazzi Smyth
		In 1845 he was appointed astronomer royal for Scotland and professor of astronomy in the university of Edinburgh.
		In February, 1901, the Royal Astronomical Society published an in depth biographical sketch and memorial of the life of Charles Piazzi Smyth as part of the Report of the Council of the Eighty-First General Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		Charles Piazzi Smyth established a reputation for astronomical drawing and an early use of the medium of photography.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-piazzi-smyth.htm (834 words)

	Royal Meteorological Society - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The latest models give good colour rendering, but at present there is a dearth of information about the use or effects of filters (including polarizing filters), although theoretically these should have similar effects to those obtained with colour films.
		Experience in using CCD arrays in astronomical applications suggests that there will be variations in the response with different makes of detector.
		Noctilucent clouds and aurorae (which may be considered on the borderline between meteorological and astronomical photography), require somewhat different techniques.
	www.royal-met-soc.org.uk /photoguide.html (3040 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Kingston Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) has a long history,dating from the founding of the Toronto Astronomical Club in 1868.
		We are a group of over 4900 amateurs and professionals in 27 centres in every province across Canada who enjoy observing the night sky.
		We are the local Astronomy Society of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
	www1.kingston.net /~rasc (392 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society (MmRAS): 1822 - 1978
		Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS): 1960 - 1996
		George Airy (1833, 1846 & 1848) (Astronomer Royal 1835 - 1881)
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_astronomical_society.html (626 words)

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		The long-term monitoring of the oscillation frequencies in the roAp stars in collaboration with South African Astronomical Observatory astronomers continues.
		Feast, M. RR Lyraes, galactic and extragalactic distances, and the age of the oldest globular clusters.
		Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series: 121, 133-141.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/rss-admin/annual_report/astron97.html (1181 words)

	The RASC eStore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The RASC is devoted to the advancement of astronomy and allied sciences, and its ~4600 members include amateur and professional astronomers from many countries and from all walks of life.
		However, for orders shipped outside of Canada or for members with addresses outside of Canada, the prices are to be interpreted as US dollars and will be converted to Canadian dollars at the current exchange rate prior to us charging your credit card.
		If you prefer to use the postal mail, fax, or phone to order products, publications, join the Society or renew your membership, please use the membership form or make use of the order forms at our publications page instead of this estore.
	www.store.rasc.ca (292 words)

	About the RASC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The beginnings of "The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada" (RASC) go back to the middle of the nineteenth century.
		The National Office of the Society is located at 136 Dupont Street in Toronto.
		An applicant may affiliate with one of the RASC Centres of the Society across Canada, or may join the Society directly as an unattached member (many centres levy a surcharge above the regular membership fee).
	www.rasc.ca /aboutus.htm (672 words)

	Historical Sunspot Drawing Resource Page
		Drawings are in the Royal Astronomical Society Library archives.
		Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Vol.
		Drawings are in the Royal Astronomical Society Library archives, London.
	www.astro.ucla.edu /~obs/resource2.html (169 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society - January Astronomy/Space Digest
		The Institute of Physics (IOP) in the UK and Ireland will be using this special year to highlight the contribution of contemporary physics to society through a programme of innovative activities.
		The IOP is encouraging individuals and organisations around the UK to run their own physics-based outreach activities in their communities during 2005.
		Throughout January, astronomers in the northern hemisphere will be watching the recently discovered Comet Macholz as it tracks across the sky.
	www.innovations-report.com /html/reports/physics_astronomy/report-38371.html (1297 words)

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