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2006 MSRAL Convention
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MSRAL 2006 Convention Group Photo
Date: June 16-18, 2006
Location: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Who: Registrants for the conference
PROGRAM
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We are truly looking forward to providing a great
experience at the MSRAL Convention next year. The conference will be
held on the beautiful campus of Washington University - creating a one-stop
experience for the conference.
Keep this page bookmarked as your reference for
the conference and events or activities to pursue durning your visit.
DOOR PRIZES!!!!
They are currently valued at $2000 so far!
Thanks to ALL the vendors for the many nice prizes you have donated
to our conference!
Here is the list of Vendors
and Prizes donated to this point
VENDORS: if you are interested in having a display
at our conference, please contact Jerry
Loethen, our coordinator for vendors during the conference for more
information.
The dorm facilities at Washington University will
be available from the Wednesday before the conference through the Monday
after the conference for those who wish to stay and explore St. Louis
further.
Registration will commence as soon as we finalize
prices on facilities and establish purchases. PayPal will be available
for completing registration online as soon as it is set.
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Schedule of Events
Friday, June 16
3:00pm- Registration opens Friday afternoon
6:00-9:00pm - Star-B-Q Friday Evening -
9:00-11:00pm - Crow
Observatory Tours
3:00pm- Vendor tables open for set up beginning Friday afternoon
Saturday, June 17
8:00 am- Vendors open for business
8:00 am- MSRAL Business meeting
9:00 am- Henric Klawczynski** X-ray and Gamma-Ray Observations of
Supermassive Black Holes
10:00am-Jim Melka** An Amateur’s Observations of Mars with a 12-inch
Telescope and the Mars Orbiter Camera
10:40am- Jim Roe** Musings on the Red Shift of Distant Galaxies
11:20am- David Hall** Eyepiece Transmission Report
12:00noon- Lunch
1:00pm- Group Photo
1 :30pm- Louis Berman** ScopeSeeing
2 :30pm- Mike Malolepszy** Transient Lunar Phenomena or Not?
3:30pm- Featured speaker - John
Dobson of
Sidewalk Astronomers
5-6:30pm- Tours of Earth and Planetary
Sciences department at Washington University including the PDS
(Planetary Data System) Geosciences Node for NASA
6:30pm- Banquet Saturday evening
8:00 pm- The Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Keynote speaker - Ray
Arvidson, Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Washington University -
Sunday, June 18
checkout
Conference completed
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