2024 schedule (Saturday)

09:00-09:15

Welcome to NACAA XXXI

CWAS & NACAA

Welcome

09:15-10:30

New Horizons: Advances in Camera Technology for Amateur Astronomy

Anthony Wesley

Keynote

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Getting Started in Observing Variable Stars

Mark Blackford, et al.

Panel session

11:00-11:30

Amateur Radio Interferometry

Brett Dawson

Talk

11:30-12:00

Bubbles in the early Universe

Balu Sreedhar

Talk

12:00-12:30

Amateur Radio Astronomy at the ASV

Philip Costigan

Talk

12:30-13:30

Break

13:30-15:00

Occultation Observing 101, 2024 style

Stephen Russell

Panel session

13:30-14:00

Double star project for amateur sized telescopes and equipment

Mike Chapman, Blake Cooper, Matthew James, Spyridon Samios, and Michael Williams

Talk

14:00-14:30

Interesting Insights from a Nova Hunting Program

Andrew Pearce

Talk

14:30-15:00

The stability of the Solar system

Warwick Kissling

Talk

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-16:30

The Travels, Travails, and Triumphs of an Amateur Astronomer Through The Decades

Colin Bembrick

Invited

16:30-17:00

NACAA Annual General Meeting

Meeting

19:30-22:30

Convention Dinner

Social