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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