Have A Look At The
Event Schedule
Schedule is subject to change.
Day 1
7 June 2024
4 – 6 PM
Registration and badge pickup
Registration Desk 2nd Floor
7:00 PM
Star-B-q
Join us at the Burr Oak Picnic Shelter for an out of this world feast. Enjoy our taco bar featuring grilled chicken, carnitas (pork), and barbacoa brisket tacos, plus beans, rice and southwest slaw.
8:30 – 11:30 PM
Star Party at Driving Range
Enjoy an evening under the stars (weather permitting). OAS will have several telescopes set up at the Lauritzen Driving Range at Mahoney State Park. BYOT – bring your own telescope, if your travel plans allow!
Day 2
8 June 2024
07:15 Am
Rolls and Coffee
08:00 – 9:30 AM
Registration and badge pickup
Front Desk
8:00 – 9:30 AM
MSRAL Business Meeting
Main Room
9:30 – 10:15 AM
Session #1
Val Germann – Central Missouri Amateur Astronomers
Astronomy on the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails
Main Room
10:30 – 11:15 AM
Session #2
Donna Syed – Astronomical Society of Kansas City
Cultivating Greatness: Inspiring the Next Generation in Astronomy and Leadership
Main Room
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch Time
Sandwich Box Lunch in the Conference Rooms
[AOY Luncheon – AOY Recipients] 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
1:00 – 1:45 PM
Session #3
Michael and Kendra Sibbernsen – Branched Oak Observatory | Prairie Astronomy Club
The National Eclipse Ballooning Project
Main Room
2:00 – 2:45 PM
Session #4
Allison Bair – Comet Researcher at Lowell Observatory | Omaha Astronomical Society
Comet Photometry at Lowell Observatory
Main Room
3:00 – 3:45 PM
Session #5
Dr. Diana Hannikainen – Observing Editor at Sky and Telescope Magazine
Radio Astronomy: From the 1930s to Today
Main Room
4:00 – 4:45 PM
Session #6
Dr. Bharat Vishnu Ratra
The Accelerating Expanding Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Einstein’s Cosmological Constant
Main Room
6:00 Pm
Social Hour
Main Room
6:50 Pm
GROUP PHOTO
Gather for a group photo
7:00 Pm
Dinner
Main Room
7:30 PM
AOY Presentation
7:45 PM
Keynote
Kevin Schindler – Historian at Lowell Observatory
Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, and the Discovery of Pluto
Day 3
9 June 2024
08:30 – 9:15 Am
Sesssion #8
Leonard Meredith – Omaha Astronomical Society
NASA Lucy Mission, Polymele Occultation Observation Mission
9:30 – 10:15 Am
session #9
Austin Kuecher – Omaha Astronomical Society
Dissecting Starlight: a Journey into Amateur Spectroscopy
10:30 – 11:15 AM
SESSION #10
Mike Modrcin – Omaha Astronomical Society
The Library Telescope Program
12:00 Noon Closing
Closing Moment