PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR

STAR QUEST 2007

WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

 

WEDNESDAY- JULY 4, 2007

 

All Day

Camping

Your Site

9:00am-7:00pm

Registration

Visitor Center

10:00am-5:00pm

Vendor Area Open

Visitor Center

10:00am

Welcome to Star Quest-Orientation

Outside of

Registration Desk

9:00am-6:00pm

NRAO Hourly Tours / Gift Shop

Visitor Center

10:00am-11:00am

Children’s Activities

Can You Planet?

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

11:00am-1:00pm

Lunch Break

 

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Introduction To Radio Astronomy

Sue Ann Heatherly

Classroom

1:00pm-2:00pm

Children’s Activities

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

2:00pm

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #1

(sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

2:30pm-3:30pm

“First Steps in Astrophotography”

Stas Edel & Jeremy Bumgardner

Faraday

Computer Lab

2:30pm-3:15pm

Star Lab: Introduction to the Night

Sky and Constellation Activities

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

5:00pm-7:00pm

Dinner Break

 

7:15pm-8:15pm

“The American Dream”

Wednesday Keynote Speakers

The Rocket Boys

Visitor Center

Auditorium

8:30pm-10:00pm

Special Movie

“October Sky”

Visitor Center

Auditorium

10:00pm

Visitor Center Closed

 

Dusk till Dawn

Observing

Your Site

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Please check at the registration desk

for daily schedule updates/ revisions

and cafeteria meal forms

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T-SHIRTS / HATS

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Vendors

Don’t forget to purchase

Raffle Tickets!

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Vendors

 

 

THURSDAY- JULY 5, 2007

 

All Day

Camping

Your Site

9:00am-7:00pm

Registration

Visitor Center

10:00am-5:00pm

Vendor Area Open

Visitor Center

10:00am-4:00pm

Solar Observing (Weather Permitting)

Visitor Center

10:00am

Welcome to Star Quest - Orientation

Outside of

Registration Desk

10:00am-11:00am

Children’s Activities

Constellation Station I

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

9:00am-6:00pm

NRAO Hourly Tours / Gift Shop

Visitor Center

10:00am – 11:00am

Introduction To Radio Astronomy

Sue Ann Heatherly

Classroom

11:00am

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #2

20 person max. (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

12:00pm-1:00pm

Lunch Break

 

1:00pm-2:30pm

Webcam/DSLR Imaging & Post Processing Techniques

Brent Maynard

Faraday

Computer Lab

1:00pm-2:00pm

“Missing Mass – The Search for Dark Matter”

Dr. Michelle Shinn

Classroom

1:00pm-2:00pm

Children’s Activities

Postcards From Pluto

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

2:30pm-3:30pm

Bob Royce

Next Generation Amateur Telescopes

Classroom

2:30pm

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #3

20 person max. (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

3:00pm-4:00pm

“First Steps in Astrophotography”

Stas Edel & Jeremy Bumgardner

Faraday

Computer Lab

4:00pm-4:45pm

“What Are Constellations?”

Jeremy Bumgardner

Central Appalachian Astronomy Club

Classroom

4:00pm

High Tech Tour of the

GBT Control Room

Jansky Lab

5:00pm-7:00pm

Dinner Break

 

7:15pm-8:15pm

8:30pm-9:00pm

Keynote Speakers

Robert F. Royce

“Composite Mirror Technology”

Dr. Andrew Clegg

“Electromagnetic Spectrum Management”

Visitor Center

Auditorium

9:30pm-11:00pm

1950’s Sci-Fi Movie Serial

“King of the Rocket Men”

Visitor Center

Auditorium

11:00pm-3:00am

(Tentative)

Telecon w/ Dr. Jim Thieman

NASA - Greenbelt Space Flight Center

A Study of Storms on Jupiter

Faraday

Computer Lab

Dusk till Dawn

Observing

Your Site

 

 

FRIDAY- JULY 6, 2007

 

All Day

Camping

Your Site

9:00am-7:00pm

Registration

Visitor Center

10:00am-5:00pm

Vendor Area Open

Lower Level

Visitor Center

10:00am-11:00am

Children’s Activities

The Great Milky Way

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

10:00am-4:00pm

Solar Observing (Weather Permitting)

Visitor Center

9:00am-6:00pm

NRAO Hourly Tours / Gift Shop

Visitor Center

10:00am – 11:00am

Introduction To Radio Astronomy

Sue Ann Heatherly

Classroom

11:00am

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #4

20 person max. (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

11:00am-12:30pm

Lunch Break

 

1:00pm-2:30pm

Webcam/DSLR Imaging & Post Processing Techniques

Brent Maynard

Faraday

Computer Lab

1:00pm-2:00pm

Children’s Activities

What The Hubble Sees

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

1:00pm-2:15pm

Fire & Ice: NASA’s missions to Mercury and Pluto

Mark “Indy” Kochte

Classroom

2:30pm-3:30pm

“A Brief History of Women in Astronomy”

Dr. Michelle Shinn

Classroom

2:30pm

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #5

20 person max. (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

4:00pm-5:00pm

Bob Royce

Tuning Up an Old Refractor Objective, or Ed’s Lens

Classroom

4:00pm

High Tech Tour of the

GBT Control Room

Jansky Lab

5:00pm-7:00pm

Dinner Break

 

7:15pm-8:15pm

Friday Keynote Speaker

Donald Nicholson

Mount Wilson Observatory Association

Visitor Center

Auditorium

8:30pm-10:00pm

Sci-Fi Movie

“Earth vs Flying Saucers”

Visitor Center

Auditorium

Dusk till Dawn

Observing

Your Site

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY- JULY 7, 2007

 

SAT.

1:00am-6:00am

(NOTE TIME)

Radio Telescope Observing

40 foot dish

40 Foot Dish

All Day

Camping

Your Site

9:00am-1:00pm

Registration

Visitor Center

10:00am-5:30pm

Vendor Area Open

Visitor Center

9:00am-10:00am

Dr. Andrew Clegg

National Science Foundation

Classroom

10:30am-11:30am

“A Brief History of Women in Astronomy”

Dr. Michelle Shinn

Classroom

10:00am-4:00pm

Solar Observing (Weather Permitting)

Visitor Center

9:00am-6:00pm

NRAO Hourly Tours / Gift Shop

Visitor Center

9:00am-Noon

SWAP MEET

(In Visitor Center Lower Level)

Visitor Center

Basement

9:30am-5:30pm

Observation of Cosmic Rays with a Cloud Chamber

Joe Zambelli – Presentations (10-11-3-4)

Faraday

Computer Lab

10:00am

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #6

20 person max. (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site<