FLAGSTAFF MEETING OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Abstract

Lowell Observatory, Northern Arizona University, and the U. S. Naval Observatory were the hosts of the 1969 summer scientific meeting of the Society from June 18 to 21. Mr. Henry L. Giclas and Dr. Gerald E. Kron welcomed us to the meeting and to the host institutions. Successive chairmen of the series of forty-one contributed papers were George O. Abell, Dr. Kron, H. A. Abt, and William P. Bidelman. The auditorium of the Planetary Research Center soon proved itself to be a congenial place for lively discussions of many of the papers. Excellent technical assistance was given by N. Thomas, R. Burham, Jr., R. Walker, and R. Childers. Coffee breaks were made extrememly attractive by Mmes. Ruth Hall, Galina Franz, Paula Abies, Nona Cook, and Stephanie Ronnestad, and Miss Helen Horstman. It is a tribute to the speakers that they kept the close attention of a large fraction of their audiences. The major share of the papers dealt with peculiar stars, galaxies, interstellar matter, or new instrumentation. Perhaps the most peculiar of the stars (or galaxies?) was carefully described by E. E. Becklin as a unique infrared extended object in Leo, which can also be found on a red Palomar Sky Survey chart.