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Cline Observatory - TriStar Past Editions

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2008
Friday Shapley Lecture:  Heidi Hammel, Space Science Institute, "Telescopes in Space"

*Tri*Star* 2008 Saturday Speakers:
Heidi Hammel (Space Science Institute, "Deconstructing the Ice Giants")
Joe Foy (Hampden Sydney College, "The Crab Nebula")
Ted Forte (Back Bay Amateur Astronomers "The Astronomical League's Planetary Nebula Club")
Jeff Regester (Greensboro Day School, "All This Way for Two Minutes of Data")

2007
Pre-*Tri*Star* Friday Lecture:  Larry Marschall, Gettysburg College, "Deconstructing Pluto"

*Tri*Star* 2007 Saturday Speakers:
Larry Marschall (Gettysburg College, "Hunting Killer Asteroids")
Don Smith (Guilford College, "Robots Chasing Stars")
Christina Lacey (University of South Carolina, "Exploding Stars - Better than a Hollywood Movie")
David Herrick (Maysville Community & Technical College, "Getting Tight with Titan")

2006
Friday Shapley Lecture:  Rob Knop, Vanderbilt University, "Galaxies In Collision"

*Tri*Star* 2006 Saturday Speakers:
Rob Knop (Vanderbilt University, "A Modern Picture of the Expanding Universe")
Elizabeth Warner (Deep Impact Mission & University of Maryland, "Results from the Deep Impact Mission")
Dan Reichart (UNC-Chapel Hill, "Discovery of the Most Distant Explosion in the Universe")
Dennis Hands (Greensboro Astronomy Club, "My Two Weeks on Mars")

2005
Pre-*Tri*Star* Friday Lecture:  Robert Naeye, Sky & Telescope, "Go Spirit!  Go Opportunity!  NASA's Intrepid Rovers"

*Tri*Star* 2005 Saturday Speakers:
Robert Naeye, (Sky & Telescope, "Ringworld Rendezvous")
Stef McLaughlin (Deep Impact Mission & University of Maryland, "Amateur Observing Opportunities for the Deep Impact Mission")
Jonathan Keohane (Hampden-Sydney College, "Cosmic Explosions Inside Coffins of Massive Stars")
Mike Castelaz (Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, "Exploring Young Stars in the Orion Nebula")

2004
Friday Shapley Lecture:  Larry Fredrick, University of Virginia,  "The Great Impactor"

*Tri*Star* 2004 Saturday Speakers:  Larry Fredrick (University of Virginia, "Parallax:  Chasing a Very Small Angle"), Dan Caton (Appalachian State University, "ASU's Dark Sky Observatory: Opportunities for Students and Amateurs"), David Moffett (Furman University, "1300+ Pulsars"), Tom English (GTCC, "Transits of Venus")

2003
Pre-*Tri*Star* Friday Lecture:  Van Abernethy, Charlotte Amateur Astronomy Club, "Saturn"

*Tri*Star* 2003 Saturday Speakers:
Johnny Horne (Sky & Telescope, "Backyard Universe Gallery")
Dan Reichart (UNC-Chapel Hill, "Stonehenge as an Astronomical Observatory")
Tony Crider (Elon University, "It's the End of the World as We Know It")
Dana Crider (Catholic University of America, "What Happened to the Water on Mars?")

2002
Friday Shapley Lecture:  Robert Rood, University of Virginia,  "Searching for Unicorns and Extraterrestrial Civilizations"

*Tri*Star* 2002 Saturday Speakers:
Robert Rood (University of Virginia, "Looking at the Guts of Globular Clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope")
Gayle Riggsbee (Charlotte Amateur Astronomy Club, "The History of the Building of the 200-inch Hale Telescope")
Jerry Watson (NCSU & Raleigh Astronomy Club, "Weather Systems on Other Planets")
Steve Danford (UNC-Greensboro, "What is the future of space exploration?")
 
 
 
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