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The Hartness House Workshop is a full day event offered on the Thursday before the Stellafane Convention and held in the historic Hartness House Inn which also hosts our Hartness-Porter Museum of Amatuer Telescope Making. Started by John Briggs in 2009 and soon supported by Dan Loraine as registrar, Tom Spirock and Dan have continued as co-chairs since 2016. The workshop is offered in two parts, a full daytime session with many lectures, breakfast snacks and lunch included, and an evening dinner session with a keynote speaker. Proceeds support the Hartness-Porter Museum of Amateur Telescope Making, which is run by volunteers from the Springfield Telescope Makers. While associated with the Stellafane Convention, this is a separate event and separate registration and fees apply.

2023 Hartness House Workshop Photo
The 2023 Hartness House Workshop

— Index to Past Hartness House Workshops —

Each white card below lists a previous works and its theme. Click on a card to go to the information page for that year which includes the program of speakers and their topics.

2024: Eclectic Astronomy III

Program (PDF) Only, no seperate page was created

2023: Eclectic Astronomy II

The monograph below by Joseph B. Houston, Jr. & John W. Briggs was outlined at the workshop but is presented here, in full, as promised.

Plowshares into Swords: How Astronomers and
Telescope Makers Helped Win The Cold War

An explanded version of the Monograph from March 2024:

Plowshares into Swords: How Astronomers and
Telescope Makers Helped Win The Cold War (Expanded)

2022: Eclectic Astronomy I

— The workshop was not held during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic years —

2019: Advanced Telescope Making

2018: Antique Telescopes, Observatories,
and Related Equipment

2017: The Search For and Science of Exoplanets

2016: Sub-Arcsecond Spatial Resolution Imaging

2015: Innovation in Astronomy Education and Outreach

2014: Binary and Multiple Star Astronomy

2013: Solar Astronomy

2012: Historical Telescopes and Related Instrumentation: Conservation and Study

2011: Meteors, Meteorites, and Minor Planets

2010: A Lunar Morphology Workshop

2009: History of Astronomy

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