Mary Lou West, KC2NMC

Department of Mathematical Sciences/ and Physics
College of Science and Mathematics , Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043 (40.843 N, -74.201 E)

Office phone (973) 655-7266, FAX (973) 655-7686
email: westm@mail.montclair.edu
Office hours (spring 2011): M 11:15, W 9, W 11:15, (and by appointment) in Richardson Hall 244



Public Telescope Nights will be 8-9 PM on clear Thursdays, September 8 to December 15, 2011 (exept November 24, Thanksgiving).

At MSU we use our Meade 12 inch LX200 GPS telescope (photo by Mike Peters). We also use our older trusty Questar 7 (photo by Bob Dorner).

2009 was the International Year of Astronomy, celebrating the 400 years since Galileo looked at the sky through a telescope. (And it has changed everything!) One goal was to have 10 million children in the world look through a telescope this year. Amateur astronomy clubs such as NJAG geared up for lots of star parties. One of the 11 cornerstone projects is the Galileoscope. It is a small but high quality telescope kit which can used as an optics experiment also. Their website is galileoscope.org. You can read the June, 2008 paper "Progress on Creating the Galileoscope for the International Year of Astronomy 2009" by Pompea, Fienberg, Arion, Smith, and Isbell.

Public Telescope Nights are supported by our astronomy club, the North Jersey Astronomical Group.

Demos for Dave's Dazzling Demos Feb 11, 2011 at Rutgers included two demos I did, the quality of an oscillator and a simple Faraday cage.

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Some of my favorite links


Sigma Xi egg drop in May, 1999 was fun!

Carolyn Shoemaker is a famous comet hunter. I'm flattered that some people think I look like her! (She is the one on the left in red, and I am wearing our purple NJAG shirt. Behind us is Gordon Bond of AAI.)

Here are some pictures of my aunt and uncle, Peg and Paul Gilbert, of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.


This page is http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~west.
westm@mail.montclair.edu