Historic Convention Photos 1954-1969

No Conventions 1949-1953

1954 Stellafane Convention
First of the post WWII Continuous Annual Conventions

Photos from the Stellafane Archives.

1954 Stellafane Convention Members of Springfield Telescope Makers in front of Porter Turret. Left to right: Bert Willard, George Perry, Ernest Flanders, John C. Pierce, John M. Pierce, John W. Lovely, Ray Ranny, Howard Finn, Harty Beardsley, Ellie Johnson. ?	1954 Stellafane Convention Old timers in front of Porter Turret. Back row: Winfred Shattuck (ATMoB), unknown, John M. Pierce (STM), Chester Cook (ATMoB), unknown, unknown, unknown. Middle row: Dr. Smiley, Ernest Flanders (STM), Wally Everest (Pittsfield, MA), George Perry (STM). ?	1954 Stellafane Convention Group photograph of 1954 Convention attendees in front of Porter Turret. ?
1954 Stellafane Convention People admiring telescope at the 1954 Stellafane Convnetion. ?		1954 Stellafane Convention People and telescopes in field at the 1954 Convention. ?
1954 Stellafane Convention People and telescopes in field. Bert Willard's 6-inch telescope with Springfield mount of pipe parts on far left. ?	1954 Stellafane Convention People and telescopes in field at the 1954 Convention. ?	1954 Stellafane Convention People and telescopes in field at the 1954 Convention. ?

1962 Stellafane Convention

Photos courtesy of Michael B. Patterson, taken by his father Henry Patterson.

1962 Stellafane Convention Looking towards the Clubhouse. ?

1962 Stellafane Convention The Porter Turret Telescope. ?

1965 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives; first 14 by Walter Scott Houston.

1965 Stellafane Convention Fred Chellis, ATMoB, with his solar powered sterling engine. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Dr. Henry Paul. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Small solar refractor telescope with foam plastic projection box by Richard Davis and Caspar Hossfield. ?
1965 Stellafane Convention A solid fused silica Dall-Kircham telescope, 2.5-inch aperture F/10, with flat entrance face, ellipsoidal primary, and spherical secondary, builder unknown. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Ed Jameson, ATMoB, with a home made fish-eye camera lens. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Maksutov telescope modeled after the Questar telescope, builder unknown. ?
1965 Stellafane Convention Roger Tuthill with his 20-inch telescope. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Dick Luce, Allan Mackintosh, and Constantine Papacosmas, Montreal, Canada examining a large telescope, builder unknown. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Attendees posed on the south side of the Porter turret telescope. Standing left to right: Paul Valleli, ATMoB, Stanley Brouwer, New Jersey, Ed Lindberg, Buffalo, NY, Sam Gardiner, ATMoB. Seated left to right: Unknown, Dick Luce, unknown, Allan Mackintosh, Dr. Henry Paul, George Keene, Rochester, NY, hidden by Paul, unknown. ?
1965 Stellafane Convention Boom of Porter turret telescope against sky and clouds background taken with a red F filter. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Fish eye view of the 1965 Stellafane convention taken with Ed Jameson's home built fish eye camera lens. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Scene of the 1965 Stellafane convention with Stellafane in the background. ?
1965 Stellafane Convention Scene of the 1965 Stellafane convention looking northeast from the front of Stellafane. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Roger Tuthill with his 20-inch telescope. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Roger Tuthill's 20-inch telescope. ?
1965 Stellafane Convention Convention scene of guests and telescopes looking north from Stellafane. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Convention scene of guests and telescope in front of Stellafane. ?	1965 Stellafane Convention Convention scene of guests and telescopes looking toward Stellafane. Roger Tuthill's 20-inch telescope far right. ?

1966 Stellafane Convention

Photo from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch.

1966 Stellafane Convention Conventioneers and Telescopes on the field with Mount Ascutney in the background. ?

1967 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston.

1967 Stellafane Convention Telescope on display at the 1967 Stellafane convention, builder unknown. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Spherical mount telescope by Norman James. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Newtonian telescope mounting with pillow block bearings, builder unknown. ?
1967 Stellafane Convention 12.5-inch f/6 Composite telescope (Newtonian, Coude, Porter Springfield Newtonian) under construction by Zvi Gezari. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Scene of the 1967 Stellafane convention looking northeast from the front of Stellafane. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Cynthia Karp, Madison, Wisconsin, at the Miller log cabin during the 1967 Stellafane convention. ?
1967 Stellafane Convention Women’s' outhouse built by John C. Pierce. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Large f/4 Newtonian telescope in split-ring mount by Harold Kennedy. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Miriam Houston, Walter Wheeler, Marcia Wheeler, and John C. Pierce. ?
1967 Stellafane Convention Students of John C. Pierce from the Woodstock Country School. ?	1967 Stellafane Convention Students of John C. Pierce from the Woodstock Country School. ?

Photos by Paul Valleli, STM

1967 Stellafane Convention Group photo 1 by the clubhouse at the 1967 Stellafane Convention. ?

1967 Stellafane Convention Group photo 2 by the clubhouse at the 1967 Stellafane Convnetion. ?

1968 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston.

1968 Stellafane Convention Tilted-component telescope by Richard Buchroeder. ?	1968 Stellafane Convention Tilted-component telescope by Richard Buchroeder. ?
	1968 Stellafane Convention Scene of the 1968 Stellafane convention looking northeast from the front of Stellafane. ?	1968 Stellafane Convention Front end of Newtonian telescope showing sliding plate holding eyepiece and diagonal for focus, builder unknown. ?

Photos by Michael B. Patterson

1968 Stellafane Convention Judge examines a fork-mounted telescope. ?	1968 Stellafane Convention Telescopes on display. ?
1968 Stellafane Convention A wooden German equatorial mounted telescope. ?	1968 Stellafane Convention Roger Tuthill's trailer mounted relay lens 20-inch f/11 Cassegrain. ?	1968 Stellafane Convention Bert Willard's Bowling Ball Scope. It comes apart and the parts fit into the hollowed out ball, with the base becoming a cover for the cavity in the ball. ?

Photos by Paul Valleli, STM.

1968 Stellafane Convention Norman James from California with his original ball mounts. ?

1968 Stellafane Convention This fork-mounted 11-inch Newtonain-Maksutov was made by Dr. Ferdie Barr of the Rochester Group using the design of Burt Norman of Canada. Paul Valleli is seen sighting along the tube in this photos. ?

1968 Stellafane Convention Walter Scott 'Scotty' Houston at the 1968 Stellafane Convention. ?