[Lvas] Radio Interview

[roger ivester]

Rob,

 

My wife Debbie and I were able to listen to the interview for the first time this Sunday morning at 7:30 EDT.

 

Rob, you are certainly an excellent representative for the LVAS and astronomy, and an extraordinary speaker. Your descriptive thoughts and wording was perfect. The way you described spiral galaxies, and the basic fundamentals of amateur astronomy could not have been better. 

 

I am going to send an e-mail to some of the clubs on the east coast in hopes that your interview will inspire their club officers to get onto the airways and promote amateur astronomy. As I have mentioned earlier, we now have quite a few amateurs checking out the website in the greater New York area. 

 

How I found and have been fortunate enough to become a member of the "benchmark" of excellence as related to astronomy clubs, clear across the country is a mystery to me. I just wish that that I could have found the LVAS earlier.

 

One more thing...your recommendations for the observers challenge are great choices and I am anxious to hear your future objects. 

 

Jim Mullaney is on a lecture tour and is doing some astronomy workshops in Canada. He will be back to Pennsylvania in early August. Jim is very impressed with the activity of the LVAS and the professional work and structure of the group. I am going to send an e-mail to Wil Tirion in the Netherlands this day advising him to take a look at the latest information and the interview on the website. 

 

Jim Mullaneys favorite observers challenge to date is the Crab Nebula which is surprising, but he has always had a very high interest in observational data as related to this object. I think it is very significant that someone as well known in astronomy throughout the world has been so complimentary of the observational data being generated by the LVAS. 

 

Last night I was able to do some observing, complete with a sketch of M-27 will my 4-inch refractor from my backyard. I am trying to follow the footsteps of John Mallas who used a 4-inch f/15 Unitron refractor in the late 50's and early 60's observing from Covina California. He saw embedded stars, and presented an excellent chalk sketch. 

 

roger    

 

 

 

    

 

 
 
 
 

 
    The moon and stars to govern the night.....   Psalm 136:9




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