Topham Letter 19440915

 

Castlefield Observatory
Fairbanks P.O.
Toronto 10
Sept 15/44

Secretary R.A.S.C.

Dear Mr. Waring

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Letter to Topham 19440908

 

September 8, 1944.

Mr. Bert Topham,
Castlefield Observatory,
Fairbanks P.O.,
Toronto.

Dear Mr. Topham:

At the meeting, this week, of the Council of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Center, Miss
Northcott informed the members of your recent accident.

Concern of all was expressed for your welfare and it
was desired that their feeling in this regard be
expressed to you on their part.

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JRASC 2013 October

Inside this issue:

  • David Levy, Fireflies, and Arcturus
  • David Levy Comes Home
  • Astronomers Kiss and Tell
  • Rendezvous with the Stars
  • Tribute to Jim Hesser
  • Strategies for Making Friends
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Discover the Universe! Our popular astronomy workshops for teachers are back!

Discover the Universe

Our popular astronomy workshops for teachers are back!

Registration is now open for our workshops starting September 30th. All our programs are offered online, available in English and French, and best of all, completely free! The workshops for teachers, which last three weeks, cover the main astronomy concepts from grades 5 through 8 while providing ideas and resources to be used in class.

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Halifax Centre Graphics

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Asteroid (273262) Cottam

Michael Gordon Cottam (b. 1945) is an English-Canadian physicist known for his work on the quantum theory of condensed matter systems, particularly in low dimensions and in nanostructures. His expertise includes the excitations or waves that can propagate in these systems and their nonlinear dynamics.
Orbit type: Main Belt
 
Reference: MPC 84676
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Asteroid (236616) Gray

David Frank Gray (b. 1938) is a stellar spectroscopist who has advanced our knowledge of stellar rotation, magnetic fields,granulation and turbulence, oscillations and star spots. He was President of IAU Commission 36 from 1988 to 1991 and Director of the Elginfield Observatory in London (Canada) from 1991 to 2011.
Orbit type: Main Belt
 
Reference: MPC 84675
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Peterson VarStar Report

AAVSO report form for observations of variables stars by R.S. Peterson (AAVSO observer code PTR) for August 1939.

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Vohman Letter 19411027

 

31 Scott Road
Toronto
Oct 27th 41.

Dear Miss Northcott

      I enclose report of variable stars for month of October, you will notice that I have received charts from W. Campbell, & I figure I have enough to keep me busy for quite a while, yet it seems that once one gets the field in ones head, its easy picking.

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Topham Letter #2

Undated letter, found in a 1937 variable star logbook from Toronto.

 

Dear Miss Northcott

I have nothing of importance to report this month.

have a rotten cold for 3 weeks from being up at Crystal Lake.

Some gentlemen from Barrie came on evening at 10:30, and they were amateur astronomers. I was at work, until 2:30AM so missed them.

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