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A lesson in the closeness of “ancient” events: This house, “Cherrywild,” was the Eicher House in Dayton, Ohio, in the late 1920s through the end of World War II. Here, as a boy, Editor Dave Eicher’s father John met and spoke with Orville Wright several times as he visited his niece, who lived nearby...
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Apollo Rendezvous gets underway on Saturday. At center, in red, are husband-and-wife team Rick Weiss and Linda Weiss, the president of the Miami Valley Astronomical Society and the chairperson of the Apollo Rendezvous meeting, respectively.
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The Cincinnati Observatory Center, housing one of the nation’s oldest observatories and the subject of a massive renovation, restoring the observatory to its 19th-century splendor.
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On Saturday night, the MVAS Observatory at John Bryan State Park near Yellow Springs, Ohio, was the site for a barbeque and stargaze to cap off the event.
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MVAS member Ron Whitehead gave the audience a terrific talk on meteorites and also received a special award from the Astronomical League for his many years of service to others.
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John Chumack, friend of Astronomy magazine and frequent astroimage contributor, is one of the most skilled photographers of the night sky in the world.
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A new science simulator and educational tool, Science on a Sphere, presented numerous objects such as Mars on a giant, glowing ball in the center of an auditorium. It was very cool.
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This 1843 Merz and Mahler refractor at the Cincinnati Observatory Center could be the oldest continuously used telescope in the world.
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The celebratory lunch to initiate Apollo Rendezvous, with Rick and Linda Weiss and other members of the Miami Valley Astronomical Society.
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Cincinnati amateurs Steve and Sue Rismiller with Nancy Eicher and John Eicher at the 2009 Apollo Rendezvous.
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