A printable version of this schedule can be found HERE
| 2025 NCRAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE | ||||
| Item | Time | Event | Location | Description |
| Friday, April 25th | 2 PM – 6 PM | Registration | Front Desk (hotel) | Registration and badge pickup |
| 4:30 PM | Travel to Eagle Lake Observatory | Front Desk (hotel departure | Car, Caravan / carpool to Eagle Lake Observatory | |
| 5:30 PM | Star B Q and Tour | Eagle Lake Observatory | Food, observatory tours, talks | |
| 6:30 PM | Talks | Eagle Lake Observatory | Greg Bragg , Ron Schmidt | |
| 7 PM | Observatories open for tour | Eagle Lake Observatory | ||
| 8:30 PM | Night sky observing | Eagle Lake Observatory | Weather permitting (sunset is at ~8:09 PM) | |
| TBD | Return to hotel | |||
| Saturday, April 26th | 7 AM to 10 AM | Breakfast | On your own | |
| 8 – 9:30 AM | NCRAL Business Meeting | Main room | ||
| 10 – 10:45 AM | Session 1 | Main room | Evan Skillman – “Using the Large Binocular Telescope to Measure the Primordial Helium Abundance” | |
| 11 – 11:45 AM | Session 2 | Main room | Mike Benson – Astrophotography, My Journey” | |
| 12 – 1:30 PM | Lunch | Conference room | Box Lunch or lunch on your own | |
| 1:30 to 2:15 PM | Session 3 | Main room | Clem Pryke – “Studying the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World” | |
| 2:30 to 3:15 PM | Session 4 | Main room | John Rummel – “Can the Milky Way Cast a Shadow” | |
| 3:30 to 4:15 PM | Session 5 | Main room | Bob King – “NASA’s Planned NEO Surveyor Hunts Down Killer Asteroids” | |
| 4:30 PM | Group Photo | |||
| 5 PM | Social hour | Social room | ||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | Main room | Lawrence Rudnick (keynote) – “Game Changers in the Radio Sky”. Awards (after keynote talk) | |
| Sunday, April 27th | All weekend | Sky Show | Bell Museum | Museum-Planetarium discount with coupon (code) for attendees |