Skyscrapers, Inc Presents

AstroAssembly 2014

Celebrating 100 Years of Seagrave Observatory

September 26 & 27
Register Here

Friday Evening Informal Talks and Stargazing

At Seagrave Memorial Observatory

7:00pm

The Lost Villages of Frank Seagrave’s Scituate and Building of the Reservoir

Ray Wolf

Saturday Program

All day at Seagrave Memorial Observatory

Poster Session, Swap Tables (please bring your own table), Solar Viewing,
Astrophotography Contest, Homemade Telescopes (bring yours!)
Famous Astro Bake-off Contest!

10:00am

Poster Session Begins

Please contact Steve Siok (ssiok@cox.net) to present

12:00pm

Lunch at the Skyscraper Grille

1:15pm

The 100th Anniversary of Seagrave Observatory

Dave Huestis

2:30pm

The Korkosz Brothers and Their Amazing Starball

Richard Sanderson

3:45pm

Searching for Earth 2.0 and Cosmological Fossils with the Giant Magellan Telescope

Andrew Szentgyorgyi

Saturday Evening Program

At North Scituate Community Center

5:15pm

Reception

(Hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks served)

6:00pm

Evening Banquet

(Pre-registration required)

7:15pm

Words of Welcome, Awards, Raffle Drawing

7:30pm

Special Presentation

8:00pm

A Retrospective of the Science of Astronomy in 1914

Owen Gingerich

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