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 | Hotel Lobby | Registration and badge pickup |
| 5 PM – 6PM | Travel to Eagle Lake Observatory | Front Desk (hotel departure | Car, Caravan / carpool to Eagle Lake Observatory | |
| 6:00 PM | Star B Q | Eagle Lake Observatory | Food and drink at beach shelter | |
| 7:00 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 12 PM | Registration | Hotel Lobby | Breakfast on your own |
| 8 – 9:30 AM | NCRAL Business Meeting | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | ||
| 10 – 10:45 AM | Session 1 | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | Evan Skillman – “Using the Large Binocular Telescope to Measure the Primordial Helium Abundance” | |
| 11 – 11:45 AM | Session 2 | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | Mike Benson – Astrophotography, My Journey” | |
| 12 – 1:30 PM | Lunch | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | Box Lunch or lunch on your own | |
| 1:30 to 2:15 PM | Session 3 | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | Clem Pryke – “Studying the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World” | |
| 2:30 to 3:15 PM | Session 4 | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | John Rummel – “Can the Milky Way Cast a Shadow” | |
| 3:30 to 4:15 PM | Session 5 | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | Bob King – “NASA’s Planned NEO Surveyor Hunts Down Killer Asteroids” | |
| 4:30 PM | Group Photo | TBD | ||
| 5 PM | Social hour | Social Foyer | ||
| 6:30 PM | Dinner | Lake of the Woods Ballroom | Lawrence Rudnick (keynote) – “Game Changers in the Radio Sky”. Awards (after keynote talk) | |
| Sunday, April 27th | Sky Show | Bell Museum | Museum-Planetarium discount with coupon (code) for attendees | |