Fourth Annual Conference on

               ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS

                         September 26-28, 1994
                         Baltimore, Maryland USA


Dear Colleague,

The proceedings of the Fourth 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 4
pages.  All papers must include abstracts.

The text of the paper in LaTeX and any Encapsulated PostScript graphics
files should be deposited by anonymous ftp to the node ra.stsci.edu in the
directory pub/adass/papers.  (Note that although you are allowed to write
to this directory, you are not allowed to list its contents.  This is
to comply with the NASA Science Internet guidelines on world-writeable
directories under anonymous ftp accounts.)  Identify the LaTeX copy by
using the last name plus the first name initial of the first author,
e.g., hanischr.tex.  Any EPS files should be identified in a similar
way, e.g., hanischr1.eps, hanischr2.eps.  Please make sure that the
references to the EPS files in your manuscript use these SAME names for
the figure files.  Authors with multiple papers will need to indicate
this as well, e.g., crabtreed1.tex, crabtreed1_1.eps.  Please send a
email message to adass4_editors@stsci.edu telling us the names of the
files you have deposited.

As an alternative to anonymous ftp, you may send your LaTeX file and
Encapsulated PostScript files as separate mailings to
adass4_editors@stsci.edu.

In addition to using one of the two electronic submission methods just
described, please send us one hard copy of the paper, complete with
graphics, and copies of any illustrations at production size that were
not provided electronically by regular mail to Harry Payne, ST ScI,
3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218, USA.  At least six keywords
appropriate for your paper should be included with the electronic copy.
The deadline for receiving your manuscript is *October 28, 1994*.
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 "ra.stsci.edu" in the directory
pub/adass/proceedings/. A README file contains information about the 
contents of the directory and directions for preparing your paper.

As with past Proceedings, we will select one figure from the submitted
manuscripts to use on the cover of the volume.  And, as with past
Proceedings, we will prepare an electronic version for the World Wide
Web.  See the Users's Guide (adassman.tex) for instructions on
specifying URLs in your manuscript, so that they become actual hypertext
links in the electronic version.
 
If you have any questions about the Proceedings please send electronic
mail to adass4_editors@stsci.edu or contact one of the editors.



                                         Sincerely,



                                         The Editors


                          Harry Payne (STScI)        Dick Shaw, STScI
                            payne@stsci.edu           shaw@stsci.edu

                                    Jeffrey Hayes, STScI
                                       hayes@stsci.edu