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April 19, 1919-May 8, 1996

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Denial is not a river

A Winter Get Away

The Enigma of the Stone Tablet

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Astronomical Stuff

FAR Laboratories, The best telescope systems, mounts and accessories

Electric Telescope Where to get one.

Lyra DDMS Where to get the coolest mount available.

DynaPod, The best telescope mounts and accessories

Stump Pod, A way to mount your Telescope on a stump or railing

Piece Pod , The best Eyepiece holders in the world!

Helio-Pod , Solar Finders for your telescope, how else are you going to find the sun?

InventionMart, Great inventions for Telescopes

Tales of The Lazy Star Gazer

Flash Astronomy resources and tips for Flash Astronomers and Star Gazers

Reflector.org of the STARS

Arunah Hill Natural Science Center

5As

NERAL, North East Region of the Astronomical League

Stellafane

Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston

Dyna-Pod, My design of light weight Tension Leg Tripods

Astro dictionary

Pielock's Planetarium and Collectors Resource

Junies Astronomy

Universal Astronomics, Binocular and Telescope Mounts

The Astronomy Shoppe, Astro-Glow and Unitron Parts

Willmann-Bell, Astronomy Books

Howie Glatter's Collimators and lasers

Sky and Earth Science

Astronomy For All

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Orion Telescopes

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Scope Stuff

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Sky & Tel Magazine

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Starlight Learning and News in Space

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IDA internation Dark Sky association

The hidden costs of light pollution

Earth and Moon Viewer

Space Weather

Klipsi

I also have a Photo section with lot of pictures from astronomical events.

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Satellite Tracking

Heavens Above

NASA J-Pass

SkyWatch

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Black Sun Expeditions

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Rif's Digital Photo Album

All Images Copyright 1990-2011 by A. Rifkin. If you would like to copy these images for noncommercial application, you can do so, as long as I get photo credits. If you want to use any of these for commercial use, please contact me for arrangements. These images represent only a small fraction of my image library.

Content created 1990-2012 by Alan Rifkin;
licensed under a Creative Commons License.
         (style cribbed from jwz)

Antikythera Machanism and Greece Odyssey 2009

Work on the new observatory on Breezy Hill

Mooney Factory Tour 11-2004

BVI Expedition of March 2003

Alaska Trip, June 2002

Adirondack Trip 222 July 2001

Maine Trip

The Bearfest of Belfast Maine, 2000

Grand Cayman Island Trip

Santa Fe and Taos Trip

Hawaii trip

Zion Utah Trip Images(only a few)

The View from the back window

Another View from the back window

My two Favorite Ladies

The Graduate

Mom 77

Mom and Pop, a long time ago

My Cousin Eli

My Cousin Evan

My Cousin Evan 2

A nice place to visit on Martha's Vineyard

A nicer place to visit on Martha's Vineyard

My toy

My toy Box (my toy box goes in my toy!)

Mooney Ditching Video (30meg)

Mooney Ditching Video lower res (7.5meg)

Mooney Ditching Video lower res (850k)

The Spa Cat Baxter

The Cat 2

The Cat 3

Stellafane Images 98

Stellafane 1996, Pink House

Stellafane, 1996 Arunah's Fitts

Stellafane, 1996 Swap tables

Stellafane, 1996 John

Stellafane, 1996 Al & Ali

Stellafane, 1997 Swap Tables 6:30 AM

Stellafane, 1997 Swap Tables 10 AM

Stellafane, 1997 Everyone's Picture, Saturday Night

Stellafane 1998, Everybody's picture at the talks (900k)

Stellafane 1998, David and Bob

Stellafane 1998, Bob and the Kids

Stellafane 1998, Youngest Stellafaner (Michala, 3.5 months old)

Stellafane 1998, Swap tables, Friday

Stellafane 1998, Swap tables, Saturday

Stellafane 1998, A Satisfied Customer

Stellafane 1998, Is this the Anonymous Astronomer?

Stellafane 1998, The Stars, after a successful morning swap

Stellafane 1999, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.3m)

Stellafane 1999, The mood of 99, Rain

Stellafane 2000, Swap tables at 5AM in the fog

Stellafane 2000, Swap tables at 7AM

Stellafane 2000, Stella-Newt

Stellafane 2000, View from the Club House

Stellafane 2000, Phil Harrington, his Home page

Stellafane 2001, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.3m)

Stellafane 2001, Al Nagler and John Dobson

Stellafane 2001, The Pink Clubhouse

License Plates Seen at Stellafane 2001

Stellafane 2002, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.8m)

Stellafane 2002, Everybody's picture at the talks Hi view (1.6m)

Stellafane 2002, the Youngest Stellafaners ( one is David Levy's grand daughter ), Meet John Dobson

Stellafane 2002, David Levy and Carolyn Shoemaker with Violet

Stellafane 2002, Al of Yummy Vue and Al of Tele Vue enjoying Fig Newtonians

Stellafane 2003, Everybody's picture at the talks (1.3m)

Stellafane 2004, Everybody's picture at the talks

Stellafane 2005, Everybody's picture at the talks (5.1m)

Stellafane 2005, The Flander's Pavilion Arriving

Stellafane 2005,The new observatory nearing completion

Stellafane 2005, John Dobson- Blowing out his 40 inch Pitch Lap birthday cake's 90 candles

Stellafane 2007, Everybody's picture at the talks

Stellafane 2009, Everybody's picture at the talks

Stellafane 2009, Everybody's picture at the talks, including staff

Stellafane 2009, Everybody's picture at the talks, while shaking hands

Stellafane 2009, Everybody's picture at the talks

Stellafane 2009, Galileo and his hammer and feather

Stellafane 2009, Joe Rao recieves the Walter Scott Houston Award from Maryann Arrien

Stellafane 2009, Closing convention

Stellafane 2010 Everybody's Picture at the talks

Stellafane 2010, Sam Storch recieves the NERAL Special Service Award from Maryann Arrien

Stellafane 2010, John Bortle recieves the Walter Scott Houston Award from Maryann Arrien

Stellafane 2010, The Swamp Tables at 8 AM

Stellafane 2011, Everybody's picture at the talks

Stellafane 2012, Candles for Fran Flanders Taken by Alan Takeda

Stellafane 2013, Everybody's picture at the talks

Arunah Hill Days 2000

Arunah Hill from air Aug 97

Arunah Hill Days 1997

Arunah Hill from air July 99

Arunah Hill from Air, Collection

Winter Star Party 2007 Sunrise

Tux

Rick Meets Tux for the first time

Tux gets the red carpet treatment for the trip home

HM 2

HM 1

PG

PG

C6

L6

C13

L13

Things to avoid hitting when flying out west

Jeff and Deb's Nepal adventure

Jeff and Deb's India adventure

The Labor Day Party's Un invited Guest

Dion-Gaarde Wedding Photos

I believe Star Parties can be held anywhere and at any time.
It is part of the Flash Astronomy Manifesto or should be
Ocean Star Party 2007
New York State Sheep and Wool Festivel, 2005
Tanglewood Star Party, 2010
South Hadley Farmer's Market , 2010
Amherst Common, on a sunny Saturday afternoon

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