Tuesday 8/30/2005
Astronomical
League's annual convention was held in Kansas City
- Overland Park, on August 12 and 13. and 300
hundred peolpe, members of american
astronomical societies, professors, and vendors
representatives participated in this
convention.
The schedules of this
event was as follows:
Friday, 8/12/05
8:00 a.m. -
Registration openning
There was
also vendor exposition in ALCon and several
different astronomical vendors exposed their
products. Vendors were:
1. Astronomical Society of the
Pacific (http://www.astrosociety.org)
2. Astronomical Tours (http://www.astronomicaltours.net)
3. Astronomy Magazine
(http://www.astronomy.com)
4. Camera Concepts and Telescope
solution (http://www.cameraconcepts.com)
5. Celestron (http://www.celestron.com)
6. Extended Observatory Network
7. H.M.S. Beagle (http://www.hms-beagle.com)
8. Meade Instruments (http://www.meade.com)
9. Merope LLC (http://www.meropeccd.com)
10. Observatech LLC (http://www.observatech.com)
11. Pentax Imaging Company (http://www.pentaximaging.com)
12. Sean's Astronomy Shop (http://www.seansastronomyshop.com)
13. Smart Astronomy (http://www.smartastronomy.com)
14. Solarscope (http://www.solarscope.com)
15. Star 'N Space Books
Vendor area - demonstrations,
door prizes
9:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m. -Introductory
remarks, local chair, A.L. President,
Vice-President
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Speaker
#1 - Michael Bakich, Astronomy Magazine
"The Death of Amateur
Astronomy"
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon - Speaker
#2 - Scott Roberts, Meade Instruments
2:00 p.m.- 2:30 p.m. - Speaker
#3 - Mike Bennett, Astronomical Society of
the Pacific
"SOFIA-Astronomy From 41,000 Feet"
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Speaker
#4 - Dr. Bruce Twarog, University of Kansas
"Wading in the Tidal Streams of the Milky
Way"
After Dr. Twarog lecture, participants
left Sheraton Hotel for Powel Observatory,
to visit it and also for the last lecture
of that day.
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Speaker
#5 - Lou Mayo, NASA Goodard Space Flight Center-Powell
Observ.
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