The Historical Astronomy Division publishes its newsletter, HAD News, approximately twice per year. The newsletter contains articles, reviews, and news items of interest to HAD members. From 1988 to 2001 it also included the very valuable lists, "Recent Publications Relating to the History of Astronomy," by Ruth S. Freitag of the Library of Congress. These now have their own section on this website.
Links to PDF versions of the newsletter are available below. Back issues have been provided by several members, including Alan Harris, Mary Kay Hemenway, and Wilbur Applebaum, and have been scanned by Peter Abrahams and Joe Tenn. There may be more early unnumbered issues (from 1980-84) that we have not found and scanned. If you have any of these please contact the secretary-treasurer.
Starting with #70, issues of the HAD News are available only in PDF versions. All members receive an e-mail notification when a new issue of HAD News becomes available. High resolution versions are for optimizing images in printing; regular versions are adequate for viewing on computer screens. High resolution versions are much larger files. If you require a printed copy, please let the Secretary-Treasurer know.
Issues currently available:
Number | Date |
none | Dec 1980 |
none | Apr 1984 |
none | May 1985 |
none | Sep 1985 |
none | Nov 1985 |
none | May 1986 |
none | Sep 1986 |
none | Dec 1986 |
none | Mar 1987 |
none | Sep 1987 |
none | Nov 1987 |
#08 | Apr 1988 |
#09 | Sep 1988 |
#10 | Nov 1988 |
#11 | Mar 1989 |
#12 | May 1989 |
#13 | Aug 1989 |
#14 | Nov 1989 |
#15 | Apr 1990 |
#16 | Aug1990 |
#17 | Nov 1990 |
#18 | Mar 1991 |
#19 | May 1991 |
#20 | Aug 1991 |
#21 | Oct 1991 |
#22 | Feb 1992 |
#23 | May 1992 |
#24 | Aug? 1992 |
#25 | Nov 1992 |
#26 | Feb 1993 |
#27 | May 1993 |
#28 | Aug 1993 |
#29 | Nov 1993 |
#30 | Feb 1994 |
Number | Date |
#31 | May 1994 |
#32 | Aug 1994 |
#33 | Nov 1994 |
#34 | Feb 1995 |
#35 | Aug 1995 |
#36 | Feb 1996 |
#37 | May 1996 |
#38 | Nov 1996 |
#39 | Feb 1997 |
#40 | May 1997 |
#41 | Aug 1997 |
#42 | Nov 1997 |
#43 | Feb 1998 |
#44 | May 1998 |
#45 | Aug 1998 |
#46 | Nov 1998 |
#47 | Feb 1999 |
#48 | May 1999 |
#49 | Aug 1999 |
#50 | Nov 1999 |
#51 | Feb 2000 |
#52 | May 2000 |
#53 | Aug 2000 |
#54 | Nov 2000 |
#55 | Feb 2001 |
#56-57 | Aug 2001 |
#58 | Nov 2001 |
#59 | Feb 2002 |
#60 | May 2002 |
#61-62 | Nov 2002 |
#63 | Feb 2003 |
#64 | Jun 2003 |
#65-66 | Feb 2004 |
#67 | Jun 2004 |
Number | Alt Version | Date |
#68 | Oct 2004 | |
#69 | Feb 2005 | |
#70 | Hi Res | May 2007 |
#71 | Hi Res | Oct 2007 |
#72 | Hi Res | Apr 2008 |
#73 | Hi Res | Oct 2008 |
#74 | Hi Res | Apr 2009 |
#75 | Hi Res | Oct 2009 |
#76 | Hi Res | Apr 2010 |
#77 | Hi Res | web | Oct 2010 |
#78 | Hi Res | web | Apr 2011 |
#79 | Hi Res | Oct 2011 |
#80 | Hi Res | Apr 2012 |
#81 | Hi Res | Oct 2012 |
#82 | Hi Res | Apr 2013 |
#83 | Hi Res | Oct 2013 |
#84 | Hi Res | Apr 2014 |
#85 | Hi Res | Oct 2014 |
#86 | Oct. 2015 | |
#87 | Apr 2016 | |
#88 | Oct 2016 | |
#89 | Apr 2017 | |
#90 | Oct 2017 | |
#91 | Apr 2018 | |
#92 | Nov 2018 | |
#93 | May 2019 | |
#94 | Nov 2019 | |
#95 | May 2020 | |
#96 | Dec 2020 | |
#97 | Jun 2021 | |
#98 | Nov 2021 | |
#99 | May 2022 | |
#100 | Oct 2022 | |
#101 | Apr 2023 | |
#102 | Nov 2023 | |
#103 | May 2024 | |
#104 | Dec 2024 |