NOTE: This is preliminary schedule, and planning is still underway . Scheduled Activities may change without notice. As soon as changes are made, every effort will be made to update this listing. Please check back often for your planning purposes.
Friday Schedule:
Time
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Activity
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2:00 PM |
Facility open to campers for setup, bathrooms open
Viewing in yard, both solar and astronomical |
7:00 PM |
Doors open to public, facility tours, and observing
Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, juice, donuts available in lobby |
7:30 PM |
Welcome to AstroFest 2021– Drew Deskur, Executive Director Kopernik Observatory & Science Center
George’s Best Images, a Video Slide Show – most captured right here at Kopernik Observatory! – George Normandin, KAS President
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8:30 PM |
Metoerites – The Rocks From Space – presented by Patrick Manley |
9:15 PM |
Night Sky Viewing – in the Domes and in the Yard, Night Sky Laser Tours, “Learner’s Land” – come out to the yard and learn how to operate a telescope. The KAS will provide hands-on lessons or bring your own scope and get help setting it up and operating it with help from the KAS and Kopernik staff, hot beverages and snacks available, bathrooms and domes open all night, Lobby closes at Midnight
If cloudy skies – Patrick Manley will host a demonstration and discussion with meteorites. Demonstration includes hands on interaction with select meteorites. |
Midnight |
Lobby Closes (Restrooms remain open all night) |
Saturday Schedule:
Time
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Activity
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7:30 to 10 AM |
Coffee, tea, hot Chocolate, juice, donuts available in Lobby |
9 AM- all day |
Vendors in Physics Lab, Dark Sky Exhibit, JPL Moon Rock exhibit, and Facility Tours |
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Solar Viewing in the Yard (H-Alpha and white light), in the Domes (Herschel Wedge on 6” Astro Physics Refractor, and with the Heliostat, Refractor, dedicated to the memory of the “Legendary Barlow Bob”, Godfrey in 2014, in the Physics Lab) |
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM |
Show and Tell Meteorites – Patrick Manley |
11:00 – 11:55 AM |
A New Generation Updates the Classic Dob – Zane Landers |
12:00 – 12:55 PM |
Life On Icy Ocean Worlds – Presented by Keith Werkman |
1:00 – 2:00 PM |
Lunch and Astronomy Clubs Roundtable Discussions. Musical Entertainment by Robert Siegers
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2:00 – 5:00 PM |
Swap Meet – buy and sell your treasurers (in vendor’s area), used equipment for sale to raise funds for new scope |
2:15 – 3:15 PM |
Telescope Resolution – Bob Piekiel |
3:30– 4:45 PM |
Where are the Aliens? – Zoe Learner Ponterio, Manager, SPIF (Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility) Cornell University |
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5:00 –5:45 PM |
July 2019 trip to the Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Presented by Lew Hecht |
5:50 – 7:00 PM |
Dinner Break and Musical Entertainment by Robert Siegers |
7:30 |
Raffle Prizes |
7:30 PM |
Welcome to AstroFest 2021 – George Normandin, KAS President
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8:00 PM |
Planning for Astrophotography – Presented by Patrick Manley |
9:00 PM |
Night Sky Viewing – in the Domes and in the Yard, Imaging Demo of FLI Camera on 20” OGS RC, Night Sky Laser Tours, hot beverages and snacks available, bathrooms and domes open all night.
Sci-Fi movie in Space Science, Lobby closes MidnightIf cloudy skies – Patrick Manley will host a demonstration and discussion related to the ZWO Astrophotography Ecosystem. |
Midnight |
Lobby Closes (Restrooms remain open all night) |
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