The Springfield Telescope Makers & Hartness House Inn Present
A Lunar Morphology Workshop
The Lunar Morphology Workshop will be held on Thursday, August 5th at the Hartness House in Springfield, Vermont. While associated with the Stellafane Convention, this is a separate event and separate registration and fees apply.
Please use the registration form on the first page of this Registration & Program PDF to register for this event. John Briggs is organizing the program and questions about this event can be directed to him at jbriggs@dexter-southfield.org.
We are pleased to offer a pre-Stellafane workshop at the historic Hartness House Inn and Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making located in Springfield, Vermont, cosponsored by the Antique Telescope Society. Proceeds will go towards the purchase of a replacement furnace for the Museum, which is run by volunteers from the Springfield Telescope Makers. This year we have added an evening banquet and after-dinner speaker, Professor Peter Schultz from Brown University.
In addition to the evening lecture, workshop speakers include: • Bert Willard •
Charles A. Wood
• Thomas A. Dobbins • William P. Sheehan • Ronald E. Doel • Richard Evans • Peter Schultz
Schedule and Preliminary Agenda
Lunar Morphology Workshop, Thursday, August 5, 2010
Hartness House Inn, 30 Orchard Street, Springfield,
Vermont, 05156; phone 802-885-2115
Note that registration includes coffee breaks and a buffet luncheon at Hartness House. Registration for the evening meal and after-dinner presentation is separate. The small profit from these fees will support a replacement furnace for the Telescope Museum.
| 8:00 – 8:55 | Coffee and Registration | |
| 8:55 – 9:00 | John Briggs | Words of Welcome |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Bert Willard | Russell W. Porter – His lunar drawings and crater Porter |
| 9:30 – 10:15 | Chuck Wood | Learning to read the Moon |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Chuck Wood | Lunar Exploration Tools |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Peter Schultz | Making the man in the
Moon: Observing the Moon in the context of its geological history |
| 12:15 – 1:15 | Lunch | Concurrent with lunch, the Porter-Hartness Museum of Telescope Making will be open with curator Bert Willard |
| 1:15 – 2:00 | William Sheehan | A man in a far-away place with an
idea far ahead of its time: A. C. Gifford and the Modern Impact Theory of Lunar Crater Formation |
| 2:00 – 2:45 | Tom Dobbins | Transient Lunacy |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:00 – 3:45 | Ron Doel | The Kozyrev-Kuiper Controversy over Lunar Volcanism:
Evaluating Lunar Science in Cold War America |
| 3:45 – 4:30 | Richard Evans | Lunar rock and mineral
mapping using public-domain software with Clementine and Lunar Prospector data: The Geological Lunar Research Group (GLR) Experience |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Panel Discussion | |
| 5:30 – 6:15 | Cocktails | |
| 6:15 – 7:15 | Banquet | |
| 7:15 – 8:15 | Peter Schultz | Secrets from the Shadows of the Moon: Results from LCROSS |
Please see the Registration PDF Document for Titles and Abstracts.
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