Letters to the Editors

A question please.

Most of us have a vague understanding of what "redshift" means in terms of measuring distance. The higher the number, the faster the object is, and the further away it is.

My question is this. - By what unit of scale is the Redshift measured?

Melvyn

Thanks for the question Melvyn - we'll throw it open to be answered by some of our more erudite members in (hopefully) the next issue of Canopus.

Dear Jo'Burg member,

Have you visited the Natal Centre web site yet? You may get there by selecting http://www.astronomical.lia.net. Perhaps you would like us to put a link to your site (http://www.aqua.co.za/assa_jhb/assa001q.htm) on our links page.

Please reply and let us know.

Regards,

Kaine

Kaine.Varley@iName.com

We will be contacting the Natal Centre to ask them to place a link on their links page, and will reciprocate by adding a link to their page.

Eclipse 2001

I'm sure that this is old news to you chaps, but the yanks are already advertising trips to Zim for the eclipse of June/July 2001. I know Jim Knight was planing to "do" this one. We should start telling people about it now so as to possibly generate a minute spark of interest.

Do we have any contact with a decent travel agent?

We have been contacted by Dave Pringle-Wood of the Harare Centre and we quote a portion of his eMail in connection with your above query .

"We are well ahead on planning for OUR ECLIPSE in June 2001, and
would like to let members of ASSA know this.
We have started discussions with Zimsun Hotels and many tour operators".

This has been brought up in committee and a tour to observe the Zim eclipse is on the cards. Anyone with an interest in joining this expedition should get in touch with one of the committee members so that they can see just how much interest there is.