Ballroom | Tiffany/Champagne Rooms | Field Trips | |
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8:45 am | Welcome/Announcements | ||
9:00 am | Field Trip 9:30 am Casper Planetarium | ||
10:00 am | Dr. Timothy Slater, University of Wyoming, What's So Hard about Understanding Eclipses |
Telescope Technology Workshop Sponsored by Celestron "Quantitatively assessing the performance of computerized mounts, Case study: CGX-L" by Derik DeVecchio, Celestron |
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11:00 am | 15 Min Break | ||
11:15 am |
Mike Hotka, NPS Dark Sky Ranger, |
Field Trip 11:45 am to Casper Planetarium | |
12:15 pm | Lunch | Lunch | |
1:45 pm | Dr. Don Bruns, University of Illinois Measuring Starlight Deflection during the 2017 Eclipse: Repeating the Experiment that made Einstein Famous |
Field Trip 2:00 pm to Trail Museum | |
2:45 pm | Fred Espenak ,“Mr. Eclipse” Photograph Basics for the 2017 Total Eclipse |
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3:45 pm | 15 Min Break | ||
4:00 pm | Dr. Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder “Juno: Revealing Jupiter’s Interior” – NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter: What’s Inside the Giant Planet? |
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Free Time | |||
9:00 pm | Star party in the Casper Mountains at around 8,000 feet |