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WEDNESDAY- JULY  2, 2008

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-11:30am

Children’s Activities

6^th grade and younger

Can You Planet?

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

10:30am – 11:30am

“Learning About the Nearest Star”

Prof. John Littleton

WVU Theoretical Astrophysicist

Classroom

11:00am-1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Introduction To Radio Astronomy

Sue Ann Heatherly

Classroom

1:30pm-2:15pm

Children’s Activities

6^th grade and younger

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

2:15pm-3:00pm

Star Lab: Introduction to the Night

Sky and Constellation Activities

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

2:15pm-3:15pm

“First Steps in Astrophotography”

Stas Edel

Central Appalachian Astronomy Club

Faraday

 Computer Lab

2:30pm

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #1

 (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

3:00pm-5:00pm

Jimmy O’Dell Carroll

Original “October Sky” Rocket Boy

Teen Science Activities

Lower Level

Visitor Center

3:30pm-4:30pm

“The Biggest Bangs since the Big Bang:

Gamma Ray Bursts”

Prof. John Littleton

WVU Theoretical Astrophysicist

Classroom

3:30pm-5:00pm

Beginning WebCam Imaging

Introduction to Digital Imaging Using

Unconventional Techniques

Brent Maynard

Faraday

Computer Lab

5:00pm-7:00pm

Dinner Break

7:15pm-8:15pm

“Pull the Universe Out of Your Pocket”

Wednesday Keynote Speaker

Marni Berendsen

Night Sky Network

Visitor Center

Auditorium

8:30pm-9:30pm

“Seeing In The Dark”

PBS Movie on Amateur Astronomy

And

IMAX “Space Station”

NASA / Lockheed Video

Visitor Center

Auditorium

10:00pm

Visitor Center Closed

Dusk till Dawn

Observing

Your Site

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for daily schedule updates/ revisions

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THURSDAY- JULY 3, 2008

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)

NASA Multimedia Bus at Visitor Center

Visitor Center

Observation Deck

Welcome to Star Quest - Orientation

Outside of

Registration Desk

10:00am-11:30am

Children’s Activities

Night Sky Network - Kit Activity

Meet Night Sky Networks’ Marni Berendsen

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

9:00am-6:00pm

NRAO Hourly Tours / Gift Shop

Visitor Center

9:30pm-11:30am

Beginning WebCam Imaging

Introduction to Digital Imaging Using

Unconventional Techniques

Brent Maynard

Faraday

Computer Lab

10:00am – 11:00am

Introduction To Radio Astronomy

Sue Ann Heatherly

Classroom

11:00am

“NASA:  Its Past, Its Present, Its Future”

Robert Dutilly

NASA (Retired)

Classroom

12:00pm-1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:15pm

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #2

20 person max.  (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

1:00pm-2:00pm

“Almost Colorless – History and Development

Of the Achromatic Objective”

Robert Royce

R.F. Royce – Precision Optical Components

Classroom

1:30pm-3:00pm

Children’s Activities

Night Sky Network - Kit Activity

Meet Night Sky Network Marni Berendsen

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

2:30pm-3:30pm

“SOHO:  New Views of the Sun”

Robert Dutilly

NASA (Retired)

Classroom

2:30pm

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #3

20 person max.  (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

3:30pm-5:00pm

Intermediate WebCam Imaging 102

DSLR Imaging Techniques

Brent Maynard

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

 Keynote Speaker

Amy Lovell

“Small in Size, Large in Numbers”

“A New View of Comets and Asteroids”

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)

Jupiter Weather

Telecon w/ Dr. Jim Thieman (Tentative)

NASA - Greenbelt Space Flight Center

A Study of Storms on Jupiter

Faraday

Computer Lab

Dusk till Dawn

Observing

Your Site

FRIDAY- JULY 4, 2008

All Day

Camping

Your Site

9:00am-7:00pm

Registration

Visitor Center

9:00am-6:00pm

NRAO Hourly Tours / Gift Shop

Visitor Center

9:30am – 10:30am

Introduction To Radio Astronomy

Sue Ann Heatherly

Classroom

10:00am-5:00pm

Vendor Area Open

Lower Level

Visitor Center

10:00am-10:45am

Children’s Activities

Star Lab Activity

Visitor Center

Star Lab Room

10:00am-4:00pm

Solar Observing (Weather Permitting)

NASA Multimedia Bus at Visitor Center

Visitor Center

9:30am-10:30am

“Making Your Own Newtonian – Tubes, Spiders

and Secondary Holders”

Robert Royce

R.F. Royce – Precision Optical Components

Classroom

10:45am-11:45am

“Learning About the Nearest Star”

Prof. John Littleton

WVU Theoretical Astrophysicist

Classroom

11:00am

Tom Crowley

40' Radio Dish Orientation #4

20 person max.  (sign-up sheet)

40' Dish Site

11:00am-1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm-2:30pm

Intermediate WebCam Imaging 102

DSLR Imaging Techniques

Brent Maynard

Faraday

Computer Lab