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October 2006 Volume XXXVI, Issue 10Executive Board Waxing Harvest Moon PRESIDENT Chuck Cardona III ‘07 Programs & Publicity Chair (631) 727-6769 chaz@owlnet.com VICE PRESIDENT Kurt Massey ‘07 Radio Astronomy Chair (631) 325-2123 kamassey@peconic.net TREASURER Barbara Lebkuecher ‘07 (631)722-3850 barbaraleb@aol.com SECRETARY Donna L. McCormick ‘07 (631) 696-3333 mccormick@scientific-consultants.com FINANCE CHAIR Bill Bogardus ‘07 (631) 474-2723 wbogardu@optonline.netImage, courtesy Tom Madigan In this image captured by the editor from his Patchogue home, the waxing crescent moon can be DIRECTORS seen illuminating the tops of some foreground clouds, on it’s way to becoming the Harvest Alarico Verticchio ’07 Moon. This was the name given to the October full moon by generations of farmers and agrarian (631) 477-2717 societies who used the brilliance of the full moon in October to aid them in the late fall harvest. akam10@optonline.netAlso noticeable in this image, is the apparent low altitude of the moon as it traces out its easterly Dr. Jeffrey Katz ‘07 path along the plane of the ecliptic, the low path a certain sign that fall is upon us with the (631) 696-3333 Winter solstice not far behind. katz@scientific-consultants.comRich Huber ‘08 Highlights for October 2006 (631) 598-4613 th raflash99@aol.com • Dr Ken Lanzetta at Stony Brook, October 6 ; Stony Brook Lectures for October inside; thBrian Andrews, Esq ‘08 ...