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Agenda for AANC Conference 2001

Here's the agenda as it will appear on the flyer, and I don't plan on making any more changes, so no more requests, please.

8:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m registration at the door
10:00 a.m.- whenever late registration in the Teacher Research Center (TRC)
Enjoy a cup of coffee and a pastry in the TRC before heading over to the Ask Jeeves Planetarium for opening ceremonies. No food or drink in the planetarium, of course.
9:00 a.m.- 9:30 a.m. Welcome remarks by Dr. Mike Reynolds, Executive Director and CEO of Chabot Space and Science Center, followed by welcome to the Ask Jeeves Planetarium by Director of Astronomy Jose Olivarez. I'll add my 2 cents and then let the games begin by introducing the marathon.
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. The first Indoor Daytime Full Moon Messier Marathon hosted by author Robert Garfinkle, F.R.A.S. Bring binoculars and red flashlights.
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break - meet and greet your fellow astronomy club members in the Teacher Research Center and wander over to the Astronomy Classroom nearby. Coffee, teas, juice and goodies are brought to you by your friends at the ASP, Morrison Planetarium and the Sidewalk Astronomers.
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Larry Snyder, Davis Star Show
11:15 a.m .- 11:30 a.m. Jack Sales, IDA
11:30 a.m. -11:45 a.m. James (Jay) White II, Executive Director, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Karin Avila, Project Astro
No talks from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. Get your box lunch in the TRC - Teacher Research Center and eat it there, or in the Astronomy Classroom, or wander outside Chabot Space and Science Center. You are on your own.
1:00 p.m - 1:20 p.m. AANC Awards for 2001 will be given to these special people: Dr. Mike Reynolds, Ph.D is our Professional Astronomer and Al Nagler is our Commercial Astronomer of the year. We have two amateur astronomers of the year this year. They are Alane Alchorn from the Tri Valley Stargazers, and Jeff Baldwin from the Stockton Astronomical Society. The Hercules Stargazers are the honorees in the Special category this year. Al and Jeff won't be with us Saturday, but the others will! Please congratulate them when you see them!
1:20 - 2:00 p.m. Keynote talk: John Dobson, founder of the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Merlin Combs, Sonoma County Astronomical Society
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Ken Lum, Antique Telescope Society
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Jon Jay Wilson, Mount Diablo Observatory Association
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Ken Lum, Peninsula Astronomical Society
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Mike Koop, San Jose Astronomical Society
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Jim Scala, Mount Diablo Astronomical Society
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Al Stern, San Francsico Amateur Astronomers
4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Chuck Grant, Tri Valley Stargazers
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Chuck Grant - a multi-club activity related e-mailing list
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Mike Koop and Jane Houston Jones, California Meteor Society