Historic Convention Photos 1970-1979

1970 Stellafane Convention

Photo from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch.

1970 Stellafane Convention Conventioneers examine telescopes in the field in front of the Stellafane clubhouse. ?

1971 Stellafane Convention

Photo from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch.

1971 Stellafane Convention Nicely made telescope on display below the clubhouse. ?

1972 Stellafane Convention

Photo Paul Valleli, STM (left) and Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch (center & right).

1972 Stellafane Convention Bill Shawcross, editor-in-chief of Sky & Telescope, chats with Bert Willard. He is holding a 16mm movie camera. ?

1972 Stellafane Convention Conventioneers examine a telescope on the field. ?

1972 Stellafane Convention A Cassegrain on a large equitorial mount. ?

1973 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston.

1973 Stellafane Convention Coelostat flat for solar telescope on south side of Porter turret telescope. The focusing mirror was placed in the upstairs window of Stellafane. Builder unknown. ?	1973 Stellafane Convention Fred Lossing, Ottawa, Canada, right, examining a fork mounted tubeless telescope. ?	1973 Stellafane Convention Trailer mounted telescope in yoke mount at the 1973 Stellafane convention, builder unknown. ?
1973 Stellafane Convention Scene of the 1973 Stellafane convention looking northeast from the front of Stellafane. ?	1973 Stellafane Convention Front of Stellafane at the 1973 convention with the focusing mirror of the solar telescope visible in the upstairs window. ?	1973 Stellafane Convention Roger Tuthill and his 12-inch telescope. ?
1973 Stellafane Convention Bert Willard, STM, (right) and George Wood, ATMoB, (left) tallying judging scores in front room of Stellafane. ?	1973 Stellafane Convention Charlie Thayer, STM, (left), Jonathan Kern of New Orleans, LA, (standing), and Walter Wheeler, (kneeling), examine Jonathan Kern's award winning solar telescope used at the 1973 solar eclipse in Mauritannia, West Africa. ?	1973 Stellafane Convention Kay Houston, left, Marcia Wheeler, right, with daughter Elizabeth Wheeler, at the 1973 Stellafane convention. ?

1974 Stellafane Convention

Photo from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston (first 7) and Jack Welch (last).

1974 Stellafane Convention 6-inch Maksutov telescope in fork mount by G.C. Withelm, of Roanoke, VA. ?	1974 Stellafane Convention Anna Althea Houston eating corn at the 1974 Stellafane convention. ?	1974 Stellafane Convention Tape-measure drive replaces the usual worm gear, builder unknown. ?
1974 Stellafane Convention 16-inch tubeless catadioptric telescope by Don Dilworth. ?	1974 Stellafane Convention Two Alvin Clark refractors displayed at the 1974 Stellafane convention. ?	1974 Stellafane Convention Diane H.Lucas, Wellington, OH, with the Porter folded refractor. ?
1974 Stellafane Convention 20-inch modified telescope by Roger Tuthill. ?		1974 Stellafane Convention Conventioneers camp in the old hay field on Breezy Hill below Stellafane. ?

1975 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston.

1975 Stellafane Convention Susan Addiss, Bureau Chief of the Connecticut Department of Health. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Dual telescopes in fork mount at 1975 Stellafane convention. Builder unknown. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Newtonian telescope made from a beer can. Entered in competition but did not win. Builder unknown. Woman is likely Beverly Fox of Montreal - see 1976 photo of her. ?
1975 Stellafane Convention 12½ inch f/6 Newtonian by Dave Kelly (at left). Plate glass mirror was made in 1971. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Partial reproduction of Galileo's telescope at Stellafane convention, date uncertain, probably 1975. Builder unknown. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Horizontally mounted optical apparatus, of uncertain function, perhaps a solar spectrograph. Date uncertain, probably 1975. Builder unknown. ?
1975 Stellafane Convention John Bortle ponders a split-ring mounted Newtonian telescope, same as next photo. Builder unknown. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Split-ring mounted Newtonian telescope at the 1975 Stellafane convention, same as previous photo. Builder unknown. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Trailer-mounted Newtonian telescope, Barry Mathews, Canada, looking on. Builder unknown. ?
1975 Stellafane Convention First aid is provided by the Middlesex County, CT, Red Cross, arranged by Miriam Houston. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Ray Mitchell, Assonet, MA, and his home made binoculars. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Camping field at the 1975 Stellafane convention. ?
1975 Stellafane Convention Looking northeast from Stellafane at the field of telescopes at the 1975 convention. ?	1975 Stellafane Convention Fred Lossing, Ottawa, Canada, and his fork-mounted Newtonian telescope. ?

1976 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston.

1976 Stellafane Convention Fred Lossing, Ottawa, Canada, and his fork-mounted Newtonian telescope. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention 16-inch tubeless catadioptric telescope by Don Dilworth. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention Spherical mount Newtonian telescope by Norman James. Irving Price, AAI, left, and Norman James, right. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention People gathered on stone wall in front of Stellafane at the 1976 convention. Front Row: unknown, Charlie Wariwick, Roger Sinnott, S&T (hand on wall), Dennis di Cicco, STM, S&T (sitting on wall), Art Rubin (standing). ?	1976 Stellafane Convention Looking northeast over the field of telescopes and people from Stellafane at the 1976 convention. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention 14-inch Newtonian telescope built by Peter Tamage, Kenebunkport, ME, showing his Crayford-type eyepiece focuser. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention 14-inch Newtonian telescope built by Peter Tamage, Kenebunkport, ME. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention People sitting on the outcropping of the Porter turret telescope. Mike Simmons in dark shirt. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention 6-inch F/4 Newtonian split-ring mount telescope designed and built by Barbara Schutt, junior, with the assistance of her father. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention Janet Mattei, director of the AAVSO. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention People examining an obscured telesope. A control panel with many wires seems to open. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention Selling replicas of the Springfield town seal for the bicentennial celebration. Russell W. Porter designed the original town seal. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention Maksutov telescope in all-aluminum machined fork mount with a weight driven RA drive, builder unknown. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention Fork mounted 12-inch f/9 Pressmann Carmichael Cassegrain telescope by Dave Kelly (another view of this scope a few pictures later). ?	1976 Stellafane Convention 6-inch Newtonian telescope in wood fork mount with builder, Jim Hassert. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention Guide scope and astrographic camera mounts, builder unkown. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention Fork mounted 12-inch f/9 Pressmann Carmichael Cassegrain telescope by Dave Kelly. Roger Tuthill on left, Dave Kelly behind telescope. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention Mike Simmons, Carmel Valley, CA, displaying the optics assembly of his new optical design of a wide field astrographic camera. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention 3-inch Fraunhofer telescope tube assembley, 1926. Mounting not original, by American Iron Casting, about 1850. Shown by Geoffrey R. Chester, of the Albert Einstein Planetarium, Smithsonian Institution, who is shown on the left. Jim Daly, STM, is on the right. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention "The Compleat Ladies Telescope" displayed by Beverly Fox, Montreal, Canada. ?

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch.

1976 Stellafane Convention Looks like it might have been a damp day. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention George Keene, from Rochester, NY, judging a telescope. ?	1976 Stellafane Convention The talks were under the tent behind the Stellafane clubhouse. ?
1976 Stellafane Convention Roger Tuthill on left wearing glasses. ?	Photo at right by Paul Valleli, STM.	1976 Stellafane Convention George East, Sal LaRiccia and Bert Willard (curator) in the Porter-Hartness Museum. (The date on this photo was blurred, and could have 1976 or 1978) ?

1977 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Walter Scott Houston.

1977 Stellafane Convention STM president, Alan Rohwer, honing his executive skills by shoveling out the outhouse in preparation for the 1977 Stellafane convention. ?	1977 Stellafane Convention STM members, left to right, Terry Hurd, Walter Wheeler, and Charlie Thayer take a break from preparing for the 1977 Stellafane convention. ?
	1977 Stellafane Convention STM members, left to right, Charlie Thayer, Walter Wheeler, and Terry Hurd preparing the grounds for the 1977 Stellafane convention. ?	1977 Stellafane Convention George Scotten, STM, mowing grass in front of Stellafane in preparation for the convention, probably 1977. ?

1978 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch.

1978 Stellafane Convention A small reflector in a wooden tube. ?	1978 Stellafane Convention Large reflector on an equitorial mount. ?	1978 Stellafane Convention Another large reflector. ?
1978 Stellafane Convention The mount is bigger than the scope! ?	Photo at right by Charles B. Adams of Whitinsville, MA	1978 Stellafane Convention Aurora at Stellafane August 1978, taken by Charles on his first visit to Stellafane with his older brother. Vertical banding is quite apparent in this photo. ?

1979 Stellafane Convention

Photos from the Stellafane Archives by Jack Welch.

1979 Stellafane Convention Left to right: Ralph Dakin, Allan Mackintosh, Dr. Ferdinand Baar. ?	1979 Stellafane Convention The “Boston Common Telescope” displayed by John Briggs. ?	1979 Stellafane Convention Nice homemade Newtonian on a German Eqitorial Mount. ?
1979 Stellafane Convention A trailer mounted scope. ?	1979 Stellafane Convention Hal Robinson, ATMoB, with his multi-telescope mount. ?