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  • Blog Post: Counting down the days to NEAF 2013

    We’re now just a shade more than three weeks away from the big East Coast astronomy meeting of the year: the Northeast Astronomy Forum. Not only will Astronomy again be sponsoring NEAF this year, but I’ll also be at the Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference beginning Thursday, April 18. The...
  • Blog Post: "Astronomy" to sponsor 2013 Northeast Astronomy Forum

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  • Blog Post: One week to NEAIC; 10 days to NEAF!

    We’re just a week away from the Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference (NEAIC), which occurs April 26–27 in Suffern, New York (at the Crowne Plaza Conference Center). A two-day event held prior to the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), the world’s biggest telescope show and expo, NEAIC will...
  • Blog Post: Updated schedule for the North East Astro-Imaging Conference

    I blogged about the North-East Astro-Imaging Conference (NEAIC) on Friday, and now Bob Moore, one of its organizers, has provided an updated schedule of events for the meeting. [captionimage="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/daves_2D00_universe.Nebulae...
  • Blog Post: Astronomy Foundation to hold annual meeting at NEAF

    Astronomy magazine is once again co-sponsoring the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) this year in Suffern, New York, which takes place April 27 and 28. This 21st annual event is the biggest telescope show and gathering in the United States, with several thousand people attending to see more than 140 telescope...
  • Blog Post: On the road: The Northeast Astronomy Forum, April 17, 2011

    The second day of the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) got underway early with a meeting of the board of the Astronomy Outreach Foundation (AOF), a group of telescope manufacturers that is assembling programs to promote the hobby. Working with partners including Astronomy magazine, the Astronomical Society...
  • Blog Post: On the road: The Northeast Astronomy Forum, April 16, 2011

    The first day of the 2011 Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) got off to a big start on the morning of Saturday, April 16, 2011, at the Eugene Levy Fieldhouse at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York. More than 140 vendors were on hand, including all the large telescope manufacturers and many...
  • Blog Post: On the road: The Northeast Astronomy Forum

    Tomorrow, I will fly east to Newark and then drive up to Suffern, New York, to attend the 20th anniversary of the Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF), America’s premier astronomy expo, which takes place at Rockland Community College April 16 and 17. (See http://www.rocklandastronomy.com/NEAF/index...