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2011 Stellafane Convention Videos

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Videos are presented below in the order they were given.

Jump to:   Friday Evening Informal Talks,   Saturday Afternoon Talks,   Saturday Evening Program.

Friday Afternoon Talks

  • Title:
    Introduction to
    Mirror Quality
  • Presenter:
    Dick Parker
  • Length: 16:57

  • Title:
    Deep Sky Imaging with a Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera
  • Presenter:
    Al Takeda
  • Length: 40:29

  • Title:
    Just a Bunch of Amatuers
  • Presenter:
    Jeff Hutton
  • Length: 27:38

  • Title:
    Medical Effects of
    Light Pollution
  • Presenter:
    Dr. Mario Motta
  • Length: 37:08

  • Title:
    You Can Make
    the Universe
    More Accessible
  • Presenter:
    Noreen Grice
  • Length: 42:33

  • Title:
    John Winthrop's Observations of the Transits of Venus
  • Presenter:
    Dr. Sara Schechner
  • Length: 52:08

Friday Evening Informal Talks

  • Title:
    Stellar Systems
  • Presenter:
    Dr. Kris Larsen
  • Length: 10:14

  • Title:
    Silvering a 32" Mirror
  • Presenter:
    Dr. Mario Motta
  • Length: 22:46

  • Title:
    Observing in Colorado
  • Presenter:
    John W. Briggs
  • Length: 39:32

  • Title:
    Stellafane, Year Round
  • Presenter:
    John Martin
  • Length: 10:22

Saturday Afternoon Talks

  • Title:
    Monitoring
    Bright Stars for
    Fun and Profit
  • Presenter:
    Arne Henden
    Director, AAVSO
  • Length: 38:11

  • Title:
    Testing a Henry Draper Mirror & Testing History
  • Presenter:
    Dick Parker
  • Length: 32:49

  • Title:
    Unfinished Business: Installing a Hale-style Spectrohelioscope
    at Stellafane
  • Presenter:
    Matt Considine
  • Length: 43:30

  • Title:
    Remote Controlled
    Astro-Imaging and
    Real World Experiences
  • Presenter:
    Paul Shulins
  • Length: 48:19

  • Title:
    Current Industry Availability of
    Low Expansion Borosilicate Glass
    for Mirror Makers
  • Presenter:
    Bart Fried
  • Length: 26:53

  • Title:
    What we
    Learned about
    Epsilon Aurigae
    during its
    Recent Eclipse
  • Presenter:
    Arne Henden
    Director, AAVSO
  • Length: 38:24

Saturday Evening Program

  • Title:
    Fran Flanders Candlelight Memorial
  • Presenter:
    Bob Morse and
    Gary Cislak
  • Length: 6:20

We are sorry, due to a technical error we do not have a video of the Shadowgram talk by Alan Rohwer.


  • Title:
    Keynote Speech
  • Presenter:
    Dr. Jane Luu
  • Length: 42:48

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