| AIC 2019 On Saturday evening the AIC folks put on a gala dinner for us. We all had a great time visiting with folks that we met at the conference as well as some old friends, too. Jeff, Ron, Al and Annie |
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2019 Ken Crawford (AIC president) making some announcements. |
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2019 This year we had a number of outstanding vendors attend. It's really dangerous to visit the vendors area with a credit card in your possession :) |
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AIC 2019 Adam Block is now on the AIC board. Adam is one of the best astro imagers in the world. He is always available to answer questions and share his knowledge with anyone who asks. He's also a fantastic teacher, having made numerous tutorial videos. |
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2019 That's Ray Gralak, the fellow that wrote the application PemPro and works a lot with the ASCOM software as it pertains to Astro-Physics mounts and products. |
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2019 One of Astro-Physics new mounts. You don't want to know how much these thing run! |
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2019 This is Molly. We met Molly at the Texas Star Party back in 2017. She is a nuclear physicist. Back in 2017 she was working at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, but now she is working on her PhD. at CalTech in Pasadena. Nice lady! She'll be teaching astrophysics at the Air Force Academy in a couple of years. No, really! :) |
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2019 The vendors included lots of companies that make an assortment of mounts. |
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2019 My buddy Jeff hobnobbing with some of the vendors. |
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2019 Planewave introduced a new mount that has no mechanical gears. It's call a direct drive and works magnetically. This guy looks like he's trying to figure out how it works :) |
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2019 Celestron brought along a new line of astrographs (telescopes made exclusively for imaging). The camera goes on the front. |
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2019 Software Bisque produces the planetarium program TheSkyX. Some years ago they branched off into manufacturing mounts and now can boast some of the best (and more expensive) mounts around. |
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2019 Here we are on Sunday (the last day) just before the raffle. "Must be present to win." |
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2019 On Saturday, Professor Ann Zabludoff, PhD.,gave a really interesting talk on how amateur and professional astronomers can collaborate on various astronomical projects. She is a professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. That's where Adam Block works. Adam was the one who got her to come talk at AIC this year. |
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2019 A couple of pictures from the dinner on Saturday evening. |
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2019 Here we're just arriving for our last gathering on Sunday. The raffle is just about to begin. |
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2019 Past winners of the AIC Hubble Award. |
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2019 Some of the Board members delivering raffle prizes. |
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2019 An article about this year's AIC from Sky & Telescope |
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