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ANNOUNCEMENT - August 8, 2016
As of the last NERAL Annual Business Meeting on August 6, 2016
The New NERAL Chair is ALAN RIFKIN
The New NERAL Secretary is CECILIA DETRICH

See the CONTACT page for details.

The 3 previous NERAL Chairs were:
Maryann Arrien (2001-2016)
Richard Sanderson
Paul Valelli

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DO YOU HAVE AN ASTRONOMY EVENT that you would like us to post on the NERAL website?  Send it to alan@rifkin.com

Click HERE to download the Celestial Observer newsletter of the Amateur Observers' Society of NY, Inc.

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Tell us about your club activities!
Or about individual member projects! This is your online community.
Take any good pictures lately? Have you had a successful star party?

Send press releases, pictures, snippets of news! Or excerpts and links to your newsletters.
Let the region know about what you're doing!

Submit your pdf's, doc files, rtf's, jpegs, tiffs, in an e-mail to the webmaster.
Text can also be sent in the body of an e-mail.

Fairly large image files can be sent.  Video files may need to be sent on a CD or DVD or miniDV tape.

Or,  JUST MAIL US A COPY OF YOUR NEWSLETTER NOW AND THEN!
(Send to: NERAL, 93 Wiccopee Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579)
 

CALL FOR NOMINEES FOR THE
2014 WALTER SCOTT HOUSTON AWARD
or NERAL SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD!

Do you know of an unsung hero of amateur or professional astronomy, who has
advanced the field with their research or writing or leadership talents? Or activism in Light Pollution?
Telescope Making? Astronomy education? Maybe even a flair for history? 
Please send a bio of anyone in the North East Region who you think should be honored.

(NOTE: If in doubt, please send the biography anyway. We may institute additional awards at some point
and we will keep all these bios on file for consideration during future deliberations)
 

To get you thinking, be sure to include any facts concerning (but not limited to)
Amateur or Professional activity in:
 
Astronomy Education,
Astronomy Research & Observing
Light Pollution Prevention
Authorship of books and articles, etc
History of Astronomy
Leadership activities in astronomy
Telescope Making or instrumentation
Club and/or professional affiliations, if any
 
For a list of previous winners check out  http://www.neral.org/pastawards.htm - The wording on their awards is also available online.
 
The nominees need not be from your organization, although they may be. You are free to nominate anyone in our Region, from the northern half of New Jersey to the tip of Maine.
Please let us know in the next several days. As complete a bio as possible is absolutely necessary, so that the Board can vote, even if they have never met the individual.
Web links can be noted as well.
 
Clearest and darkest of skies,
 
Maryann Arrien
Chair: NERAL
845-528-7420 home/office


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