Tomorrow I’ll leave for the Northeast Astro Imaging Conference (NEAIC), which is being held on Thursday and Friday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Suffern, New York. I’ll be blogging about this largest annual meeting for sky imagers on the East Coast, and will hope to see many of the great folks who produce the sensational pictures of planets, galaxies, and nebulae that you see in Astronomy.
On Saturday and Sunday, I’ll attend the Northeast Astronomy Forum, the largest telescope show and expo in the world, also in Suffern, at Rockland Community College.
Astronomy magazine and the Astronomy Foundation will each have booths, and our folks will look forward to seeing you. From the magazine, Publisher Kevin Keefe and Advertising Sales Manager Jeff Felbab will be there. From the Astronomy Foundation, Karen Jennings, Marsie Hall Newbold, John Schroer, and many others will be there. More than 4,000 people are expected to attend overall, and there will be displays by all the major manufacturers and retailers in the business, plus talks by a wide array of amateur and professional astronomers. I’ll be giving the conference’s final talk, “Astronomy’s New Frontier,” on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
Plus, the Astronomy Foundation will be holding its annual meeting at NEAF on Sunday morning. There will be much news to report coming out of that meeting.
Stay tuned for more.