Venus Transit

Links to websites that have information for next month's Transit of Venus are now available on the library's Popular Astronomy page.

If you know of a good site that's not listed, please let the library staff now. Thanks.

Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin

The May 2004 Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin Issue 98 is now available.
Please note that this link takes you directly to a .pdf page.

New Books!

Currently on the New Books shelf:


The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition

Handbook of CCD Astronomy by Howell.

Hokuloa: The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawai`i by Chauvin.

Practical Statistics for Astronomers by Wall and Jenkins.

Stromlo: An Australian Observatory by Frame and Faulkner

AGU Journals

An updated reference style guide (PDF) is now available.

Also, they've changed their pagination/citation system. See the back cover of any 2004 issue for details.

New Books!

The Book Nobody Read by Owen Gingrich.

The ISO Handbook in five volumes. Published by the European Space Agency (ESA).


Extragalactic Hydroxyl, a dissertation, by Hans-Rainer Klockner.

Proposals

The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory proposal information has been posted to the bulletin board.

I'd like to get a feel for whether we need to keep receiving telescope proposal information in paper form or if everyone is getting the information online. Please drop the library staff a quick note to let us know. Thanks!