ALCOVE Database ®
Site Map
There are quite a number of active pages on the ALCOVE
Database ® Web Site and they keep increasing very often. This
page has been prepared to provide you with easy and direct access to
all pages and links our website includes.
I. GENERAL
About Our Logo , you can read more about our logo prepared and
posted in March 2000.
Tribute
to Our Fellow Amateurs, to share our sorrow and grievances for our beloved
friends with you:
o Jose Manuel
Oporto Ibanez
o Michiel
Daniel "Danie" Overbeek
o
Casper "Cap" Hossfield
o
Wayne M. Lowder
o Theodore "Ted" Wales
o
Janet Akyüz Mattei
Main Links
Page, links to related sites in the fields of Variable Stars,
Comets, Observing Deep Sky Objects, Double Stars, Eclipses and
Other Celestial Events, Observational Astronomy, Astronomical
Databases, plus the following:
o
Turkish
Astronomical Links
o
Other
Interesting Links in and to Turkey
o
Selected
Astronomical Sites in Massachusetts and New England
o
Touristic
Links in Massachusetts and New England
o
Other
Interesting Astronomical Links
o
Astronomical
Links: A Compilation
o
Science
Fiction Links
o
My
Page on Star Trek Saga
For
the Beginners in Astronomy, a page aiming to help the novice astronomers to
decide on their first choices of books and equipment.
Picture
Gallery, you can reach to all (almost) of astronomy related
pictures of mine in two sub categories, from science museum
displays to star fields, from planet conjunctions to eclipses;
plus links to other interesting astronomy pictures.
o
Astronomical
Pictures of Mine
o
People
and Places in Astronomy - Main Page
o People and Places
in Astronomy - 2004
o People and Places
in Astronomy - 2003
o People and Places
in Astronomy - Hawai'i 2002
o People and Places
in Astronomy - 2002
o People and Places
in Astronomy - 2001
o
People and Places in
Astronomy - 2000 - First Page
o
People
and Places in Astronomy - 2000 - Second Page
o
People
and Places in Astronomy - 1999
o
People
and Places in Astronomy - 1998
o
People
and Places in Astronomy - Previous Years
o Links
to Other Interesting Astronomical Pictures
Our preliminary
Report of the Total Solar Eclipse of August 11, 1999,
the page that started it all.
II. ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS
Our Recent
Observations, observation results of the last couple of
months.
o Our 2001
observations of variable stars (in MS Excel format).
o Our 2002
observations of variable stars (in MS Excel format).
o Our 2003
observations of variable stars (in MS Excel format).
Our
Observations of the Recent Past, observations we have made since
November 1999.
My Early
Observations, accounts and drawings of my earliest
observations of celestial objects.
III. MY AREAS OF INTEREST IN ASTRONOMY
Variable
Stars, results of my variable star observations since 1983
and several interesting links.
o
My Research Paper on Three
Unnamed Fleming Variables.
o
Star
Charts for Three Fleming Variables
o
DSS
Images for Three Fleming Variables
o
My popular article on my research project, In
the Footsteps of W.P. Fleming
o
My
Variable Star Observations Published in AAVSO News Flashes and
Alert Notices
o
My
Variable Star Observations, a list of results in my principal endeavor.
o
My
Variable Star Observations sent to the AAVSO (in txt format)
o
My
Variable Star Observations sent to the BAA-VSS
o
My
Variable Star Observations sent to the HAA-VSS
o
Argelander
Method for variable star magnitude estimation.
o
My
Article on the Observation of U Gem for the IUE satellite in 1990.
o
My
Variable Star Charts
Comets,
information about my comet observations since 1985 and cometary
web links.
o
Total
List of My Cometary Observations since Halley's Comet
o
Our
Observation Results of Comet Hale-Bopp
o
Our
Observation Results of Comet Hyakutake
o
My
Observation Results of Halley's Comet
o My
Observations of Other Comets
o
My Article About
the Comet of 1577 and Takiyuddin, published in the
International Comet Quarterly.
Deep Sky
Objects, my drawings of deep-sky objects.
Double
Stars, my observations of double stars.
Eclipses:
Solar and Lunar, we observed.
o Total
Lunar Eclipse, October 27, 2004,
from Boston, MA.
o Total
Lunar Eclipse of November 8, 2003, from Boston, MA.
o
Partial
Solar Eclipse of Christmas December 25, 2000, from Boston, MA.
o
Report of the Total Solar Eclipse of August 11, 1999, Solar
Eclipse from Amasra, Turkey.
o
Partial
Solar Eclipse of February 26, 1998, from North Quincy, MA.
Other
Celestial Events that I have observed such as meteors,
occultations and the like.
o Our Report on the
Transit of Venus on
June 8, 2004 from Bakirkoy, Istanbul, Turkey.
o Report on the 2002 Leonids Shower, A Silent Farewell
o
Report on the 2001 Leonids Shower,
The Year
Leonids Roared
o
Report on the 2000 Leonids Shower, A
Much Better Show This Year
o
Report on the 1999 Leonids Meteor "Storm", Was
It A Storm As Seen from Boston, MA?
o
How Did We Observe C/Shoemaker-Levy
9 Collision with Jupiter?
o
Planet
Conjunctions in 1999, our observations of Venus and Jupiter.
o
My
Sunspot Observations
IV. ABOUT OURSELVES
Who Am I?,
an introduction to my interests and accomplishments in astronomy.
Our
Observing Instruments, a brief description of our
astronomical observing instruments and accessories, including
their pictures.
o
The story of Building
My 8" Newtonian Reflector.
o
The story of making my first mirror (in Turkish)
Bir ATM Macerasi (An
Adventure in ATM).
Link
to Gamze H. Menali's Homepage, my wife's personal homepage
who is a professional astronomer working as an
astronomical technical assistant at the American Association of Variable Star
Observers (AAVSO) in
Cambridge, MA.
Gamze's article titled "Reaching
Out to the Stars with the AAVSO", originally published
in AAVSO
Newsletter No 24 in October 2000.
Turkish Astronomy Corner, "Turkce
Gokbilim Kosesi", for our Turkish readers in Turkey and around the globe; Turkiye'de ve
dunyada bizi ziyaret eden amator gokbilimciler icin hazirladigimiz Turkce
sayfalar.
V. UTILITIES
What's
New?, to see the latest updates to this website.
o
Updates to This Website
in 2005
o
Updates to This Website
in 2004
o
Updates to
This Website in 2003
o Updates to This
Website in 2002
o Updates to This
Website in 2001
o Updates to This
Website in 2000
o Updates to This
Website in 1999
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Menali.
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