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VAAS 2009 is coming to Charlottesville!


The Virginia Association of Astronomical Societies (VAAS) 33rd annual conference!
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 at the NRAO auditorium
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Charlottesville, Virginia
$10 - General Admission
$6 - Students and Teachers (bring school ID)
$4 - Children (12 & under)
$12 - BBQ cookout & star party at McCormick Observatory (Conference attendees only)
$3 - Late fee (after Aug 29)
Register Today
Schedule
9:00 - 9:15 Registration.
9:15 - 9:25 Introductory remarks & welcome by Richard Drumm, CAS President.
9:25 - 9:45 Steve Layman, The Chandra Grant Outreach Program.
9:45 - 10:45 Dr. Brian Mason of NRAO: "The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect: Shadows Cast By the Microwave Background"
10:45 - 11:00 Break for vendors and leg stretching.
11:00 - 12:00 Dr. Joseph Lazio, Naval Research Laboratory: "The Lunar Radio Array"
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch at the nearby Observatory Hill Dining Hall.
(Building #7 -- See map above)
1:00 - 2:00 Dr. Katherine Thornton of UVa: "STS-61, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing and repair mission."
2:00 - 2:15 Break for vendors and leg stretching.
2:15 - 3:15 Dr. Mark Whittle of UVa: "Primal Scream: Sounds from the Embryonic Universe"
3:15 - 3:30 Break for vendors and leg stretching.
3:30 - 4:30 Dr. Robert O'Connell of UVA: "Hubble Wide Field Camera 3, WFC3"
4:30 - 5:00 Door Prizes and concluding remarks.
5:30 - 12:00 BBQ Dinner and observing session with the historic 26" Clark refractor.
McCormick Observatory.
Door Prizes:

Vendors:
To be announced also!

Each registration will include a door prize ticket & a limited number of extra tickets may also be purchased.
Reserve your swap table space using the registration form if you would like to sell/trade your own equipment.