Daily Schedule - Friday August 18th

  Ballroom Tiffany/Champaign Rooms Field Trips
  9:00am Astronomical League Annual Meeting
Door Prize Giveaways
   
 10:00 am Europa Clipper Mission
Dr. Vladimir Lyra

California State University at Northridge, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Field Trip 9:30 am Tate Museum
 

 

 

The Fine Art of Observing Workshop

Alan M. MacRobert, Sky&Telescope Magazine
David Tosteson
Mike Murray

11:00 am

15 Minute Break

 

11:15 am Observatories near Longitude 105 West - Past, Present & Future
D
r. Robert Stencel
Denver University, Denver Univ. Observatories
Field Trip 11:45 am Casper Planetarium
12:15 pm Lunch Lunch
1:45 pm Operating the Kepler Mission with University Students
Bill Possel
Laboratory for Atmospheric & Space Physics

Professional/Amateur Collaboration Workshop

Jim Fox

Carolyn Collins Petersen

Field Trip 2 pm Science Zone
2:45 pm Explore New Frontiers with the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission to Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu
Dolores H. Hill
Sr. Research Specialist, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
3:45 pm 15 Minute Break
4:00 pm Chasing Meteors
Chris Peterson
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
   
Free Time  
6:00 - 7:30 pm Star-B-Q
 
9:00 pm Star party in the Casper Mountains at around 8,000 feet