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Re: [APML] Survived AstroImage 2002
Hi Paul (and others involved in the conference):
Will the text and/or slides presented in the conference be available on line
somewhere? I wouldn't mind paying a fee to access this good stuff.
Bert
Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul M. Rybski" <rybskip@idcnet.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Survived AstroImage 2002
> Dear AMPLer's
>
> At 9:59 AM -0500 on 8/26/02, Robert Reeves wrote:
>
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I got back to Texas last night from the AstroImage 2002 conference held
at
> >UC in Irvine. What a blast! That place was great!
> >
> >As far as I know, I didn't say one dirty word during the webcast of the
> >program. I was fine Friday night, but my Saturday talk was done with jet
> >lag and sleep deprivation to the max. Hey Paul, how did it look up at
> >Whitewater? It was quite a production to broadcast that. Liam Kennedy,
the
> >president of Orange County Astronomers, and his wife, were both busier
than
> >one-armed wallpaper hangars keeping the stream on-line. It turns out the
> >webcast was being sent to a server Huntsville, Alabama, where it was then
> >sent to the various recipients. It was quite a production in order to
> >maintain the bandwidth to the recipients. I was impressed.
> >
> >Mat BenDaniel, Tony Hallas, and Rob Gendler all had their work displayed
by
> >Imelda Joson from Sky & Tel during her presentation.
> >
> >I got to put real faces on film astrophotography people I have known by
long
> >distance, such as Don Westergren from here on the list, Lee Coombs, and
Bill
> >Fletcher. Sally didn't make it to the conference. Of course, there were
> >plenty of CCD guys there too. I roomed with Ron Wodaski, the CCD guru.
I
> >was really great to find out that those Dark Side guys are as whacked in
the
> >head as we film guys are <G>. It was also fun to meet up with Canadians
> >Jack Newton and Peter Cerovolo again for dinner on Saturday night.
> >
> >In a way, I regret going to the conference because I wandered into the
> >vendor's and sponsor's room at the conference. Now I have a great lust
in
> >my pocketbook for a copy of Main Sequence software (they sold out at the
> >show!) and Borg f/2.8 astrograph for the Pentax medium format camera.
God!
> >I'm in love with that instrument. You folks go out and buy a copy of my
> >book so I can get one of these <G>!!
> >
> >Anyway, I can't say enough about how great a job the Orange County
> >Astronomers did on AstroImage 2002. It was 1st class all they way.
> >Chairman Garth Buckles got the face time in front of the crowd as M.C.,
but
> >list member Dave Kodama, as well as Darren Thibodeau, Greg Pyros, Pat
> >Stoker, Bill Patterson, Liam Kennedy, and Stephen Eubanks were all
> >instrumental in pulling off the conference. Thanks guys!
> >
> >In the next few days as my school schedule allows, I will post some
> >conference pictures on my web site.
> >
> >Robert Reeves reeves10@swbell.net
> >520 Rittiman Rd. www.robertreeves.com
> >San Antonio, Texas 78209 210-828-9036
> >USA 29.484 98.440 200 meters
>
> As one of the many unfortunate AMPLer's who could not make the
> trip to CA for this conference, I want to say in print how valuable
> the video streamcast was for me and those who attended the videocast
> at our observatory. Thanks are due Liam and Anna Kennedy for all
> their hard work and to the OCA for underwriting the video streaming.
>
> Rob, your presentations were models of clarity and eloquence;
> and the material you prepared, posted on the AI2002 site, was
> outstanding! Finally, thanks for greeting me at the beginning of
> your talk. You made me feel like a true conference participant!
>
> Paul
>
> --
> Paul M. Rybski, Ph.D., Associate Professor and former Chair,
> Dept. of Physics, and
> Director, Whitewater Observatory
> University of WI-Whitewater
> Whitewater, WI 53190-1790
>
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