All meeting locations are at the Town Hall unless otherwise specified. Schedule as accurate as possible but is subject to change as the event nears.
DAILY:
- 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM*, Generators can be on.
- 7:00 PM – 11:00 AM*, Generators must be off.
- Sunset – Sunrise, Red lights ONLY
Wednesday, June 5th
- 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM*, Registration & Merchandise Sales
- 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, RMSS Orientation and Q&A
- 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Meet & Greet with RMSS Directors
- 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Kids Games/Activities with CSASTRO Director of Education
Thursday, June 6th
- 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM*, Registration & Merchandise Sales
- 10:00 AM – 12:00PM, Kids Activity – Solar Observing and Imaging
- 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Presentation: Don Parkes – Electronically Assisted Astronomy
- 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Kids Games/Activities with CSASTRO Director of Education
- 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Meet & Greet with RMSS Directors
- 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM, RMSS Opening Remarks
- 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Presentation: Barry & Carol Young – Exploring the Alaskan Aurora in Winter
Friday, June 7th
- 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM*, Registration & Merchandise Sales
- 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, Kids Activity: Making and Using Sundials
- 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, ATM Walkabout
- 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM, Kids Activity: UFOs and Bigfoot: Is there life on other planets?
- 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Swap Meet
- 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Tom Zeph – Build an All-Sky Camera
- 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Presentation: Daniel Champion – Near Real-time Computational Astrophotography
- 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM, Presentation: Rick Angell & Bruce Bookout – Milky Way Stories
- 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Kids Astronomy with CSASTRO Outreach
Saturday, June 8th
- 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM*, Registration & Merchandise Sales
- 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Kids Activity, Cool Science
- 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Jim West Memorial Youth Presentation, Emmeline Huston: Jupiter
- 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM, Paper Rockets
- 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Kids Door & Raffle Prize Drawings
- 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Award & Scholarship Presentations, Door & Raffle Prize Drawings
- 7:30 PM – 7:45 PM, RMSS Farewell & Closing Remarks with RMSS Directors
- 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM, Kids Astronomy with CSASTRO Outreach
Sunday, June 9th
- 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, RMSS 2024 Review
- 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Site Cleanup
- 12:00 PM – Depart
*Registration and merchandise hours are subject to change depending on demand and availability of manpower to staff stations (volunteers are greatly appreciated).
If you would like to volunteer, please contact us.