In Memorial


Judy Allen		Phil & Dorothy Rifkin
August 12, 1948-November 23, 2015		April 19, 1919-May 8,1996 and June 17,1920-May 13 2016

She is gone but not forgotten

Rif's Place, a Collection of Links to Visit

A handy collection of links to take you to other places, but remember no matter where you are, you are there!

Email: Rif@Rifkin.com

Go ahead and dream the impossible dream, and don't let anyone or anything stop you, for to make it happen tomorrow, we need to dream of it today
Alan Rifkin

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Fun

Ask Rif

Places close to home

FAR Laboratories, The best telescope systems, mounts and accessories
Electric Telescope Tour Can we visit you?
DynaPod, The best telescope mounts and accessories
DynaPier, The best telescope Piers, make your scope handicapped accessible
Dyna Rail, A way to mount your Telescope on a stump or railing
Piece Pod , The best Telescope Eyepiece holders in the world!
Helio Pod, Solar Finder
Dyna Raq, How to hold your Dyna's
Stump Pod, Turn a tree stump into a pier
InventionMart, Great inventions for Telescopes
My barn sale Some great deals on Stuff. You have to see it to believe it.
Tales of The Lazy Star Gazer
Flash Astronomy resources and tips for Flash Astronomers and Star Gazers
Waypoint The GPS Waypoint Registry.
Rifkin.info
Rifkin.biz
Rifkin Foundation
Smooley
Pielock's Planetarium Repair
Miniature Theatre of Chester
Junies Astronomy
Junies Astro
Junies Planetarium Shows
4 Rivers Connections
Four Rivers Connections
Mooney Links
Reflector.org of the STARS
Ivory Billiards
Lucchesi Billiards
Your IP address .

Razuma ?
Jallen
Stan Fulwiler's Place
Seven Hills Mills Premium All Natural Bread Mixes, No more boring bread
Top of the Hill Cafe, Ice cream, Hot Dogs, Lemonade
Oxtails A Great Food Store
Papayas A Great natural Food Store and Cafe
Amherst Potters Supply
East Street Ballet.com
Jim Slawski CPA
Sun Coast Conversions
Jaguar V8 Conversions
Al's Tire and Auto Repair
Flood Plain Point
Smooley
Dan Moraski
Bennie and the Jets An Elton John Tribute Band
Bennie and the Jets Mobi site
Strange Visitors
The Skid Marks
Changes in Latitudes
Changes in Latitudes Mobi site
Steve Kareta
PetersCorps.org
Rick-Hamilton
MV Jewelry Martha's Vineyard Jewelry
Jeff Lane Photographs
Valley Planning Pioneer Valley Outdoor Festival

Plan your trip

Local Radar

Detailed Forecast

Ventu Sky

USA Pilot Weather

Clear Sky Clocks

Intellicast .

Accu weather

Dan Checkoway's Metar list

Dan's Free site

Av Digital Data Service

10 forecasts

Adds

Accuweather matrix

Meteograms

NWS

Space Weather

CNN Business Traveler's Advisory

NOAA Weather

NWS Boston

NWSFO Albany

DUAT

More Weather

Chicopee

Vineyard

Mount Washington

Snohomish

Phone Books

People 14

ATT Any Who

Switchboard

Fonolo IF the others don't work, use this to call them

Finding Lost Stuff

UPS
Fed X
Snail Express Mail
Airborne Express
Purolator
Medical
Heavens Above
NASA J-Pass
SkyWatch
Dr. T. S. Kelso's two line elements

Black Sun Expeditions

2017 Eclipe in USA, August 21

Greece and the Search for the Antikytera Mechanism, 2009

Egypt Libya Total Solar Eclipse, March 29, 2006
And Egypt Tour
It was a great trip
Powerpoint intro to slide show
Slide Show of Expedition
Paul's Demo (quicktime 7meg)

Shanghai China Eclipse, July 29, 2009
Info

Transit of Venus, June 8, 2004

Total Lunar Eclipse, November 8, 2003

Alaska Eclipse Expedition, June 2002

December 25, 2000 Eclipse Expedition notes

Feb 26 1998 Total Solar Eclipse Sailing Expedition to Guadeloupe
See most of the pictures
Log of the Voyage
Plans of the Feb 98 trip to the Caribbean
Itinerary the Feb trip
Path of the Feb. 26, 1998 Eclipse
Map of the Caribbean Basin
All The Technical details from NASA Tech Briefing
Basse Terre Weather
Carib Sat Image

Fred Espenak, Mr Eclipse
Jay Anderson, the Weatherman for Umbraphiles
Eclipse Chaser Glossary
Waiting for the Shadow
Eclipse Chasing with Maria Mitchell

Cruising World
A Place to find out about sailing stuff

All Images Copyright 1990-2017 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 1990-2017 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
Stellafane 2014, Everybody's picture at the talks
Stellafane 2015, Everybody's picture at the talks
Stellafane 2017, 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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