Second Annual Conference on

            Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems

                            November 2-4, 1992
                           Boston, Massachusetts



Dear Colleague,

The proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Astronomical Data
Analysis Software and Systems will be published as part of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. So that the
published volume remains a manageable size it will be necessary to
enforce strict page limits: invited papers will be limited to 10 pages
while contributed oral talks and poster papers will be limited to 5
pages.

The text of the paper in LaTeX should be sent to us electronically at
softconf@cfa.harvard.edu.  Three hard copies, one of which should be
camera-ready, and copies of the illustrations at production size
should be sent to us by regular mail (Ms. Patricia Buckley, SAO, 60
Garden Street, Mail Stop 83, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA).  At least six
keywords appropriate for your paper should be included with the
electronic copy and/or included on a *separate page* (not part of the
camera-ready copy) with the mailed copies. The deadline for receiving
both the electronic copy and the hard copies is *December 11, 1992*.
If we receive manuscripts after that date we can not guarantee that
they will be included in the published proceedings.

Electronic markup (LaTeX) and submission instructions are available by
anonymous ftp from the node "sao-ftp.harvard.edu" in the directory
pub/softconf/proceedings/. A README file contains information about
the contents of the directory and directions for preparing your paper.
 
If you have any questions about the Proceedings please send electronic
mail to softconf@cfa.harvard.edu or 6699::softconf, or contact one of
the editors.



                                         Sincerely,



                                         The Editors


   Bob Hanisch (STScI)  Roger Brissenden (SAO)      Jeannette Barnes (NOAO)
   hanisch@stsci.edu    brissenden@cfa.harvard.edu  jbarnes@noao.edu