StarFest 2007

The Bays Mountain Astronomy Club hosts this annual event for amateur astronomers in the southeast region of the United States.  There will be lots of interesting presentations and displays, interaction with other amateur astronomers and, of course, nighttime observing at the Bays Mountain Observatory grounds.

Our featured speaker at this year's StarFest will be Doug Gegen.
He is the curator and staff astronomer at the Roper Mountain Science Center
in Greenville, SC. He is in charge of the observatory which houses a 23" Alvan Clark
refractor. Doug will talk about the history of the telescope as well as its use in a school
district setting. You'll also learn how it made it's way from Princeton University,
via the US Navy, and then to Roper Mountain.

Registration information and forms are available by selecting the link above.
Note: All materials are in Adobe PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader
to view those pages.

For lots of pictures from various StarFests, click here.
These images are courtesy of BMAC club member Evan Lewis.