Fifty Years Later: My New York City Moonwatch Observations

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #23.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.774

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When Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957, I was a member of the New York City Moonwatch team through the Amateur Astronomers Association. As 14-year-old sophomore at the Bronx High School of Science, I took the subway, the D train, from the Bronx to the RCA building in Rockefeller Center, where we observed from the roof. I remember our line or lines of elbow telescopes and our eventual success in detecting Sputnik overhead. My talk will include my recent reminiscences as a letter to the editor of The New York Times; the certificate that the Amateur Astronomers Association gave to the Pulkovo Observatory in what is now St. Petersburg, Russia; and a survey of Moonwatch history. I will also share reminiscences reported from some colleagues.

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