Book and Magazine Binding

Your favourite books showing signs of wear? Astronomical Magazines all over the place? A repair and re-binding service is available to members at preferential rates. Sky & Telescope and Astronomy can be bound into neat books, making them easier to handle and store.

Enquiries to: Gill Stewart

(011) 763-3301

LX200 collimation

"Bob's Knobs" make a thumb screw for the LX200 secondary. These let you tweak the collimation without fiddling with Allen keys in the dark. I'll be bringing a set in - if interested drop me a note.

Price is around US$ 16 + pp per set.

Email List

If there are any members out there wanting to be on an email list to receive any messages relating to the ASSA Jo'burg Centre's activities, please send your details to Bruce Dickson at:-  bdickson@mweb.co.za

A 42-year-old man killed himself watching the eclipse while driving near Kaiserslautern, Germany. A witness driving behind him stated that the man was weaving back and forth as he concentrated on the partially secluded sun, when he suddenly accelerated and hit the bridge pier.

He had apparently just donned his solar viewers, which are dark enough to totally obscure everything except the sun.

Submitted by Chris Stewart