Mason Dixon Star Party 2010
Speakers
(Listed below are the speakers from the 2010 Summer FULL MDSP)
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Speaker Topics and Bios
The following speakers have been confirmed for the Fall MDSP
We are still working on our lineup of Speaker for this
summers MDSP. Check back later.
We are still looking for several speakers to fill in our schedule. If you wish to be a speaker at this years MDSP,
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Dr. Martin Rice
Galileo -- The Trickster
Saturday, 2:30PM
To
celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discovery of the moons
of Jupiter and his celestial use of the telescope, we'll look at the
manner in which which he championed Heliocentrism over Geocentrism
... which wasn't always that scientific, objective, or honest.
Martin
Rice is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Pittsburgh's Johnstown campus where he advises the student astronomy
club. His primary teaching responsibilities are in Philosophy
of Science, Logic, the Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of
Religion. When not collecting telescopes, he's championing the
advantages of the typewriter over the computer.
Jan Romer
When Seeing was Believing
Saturday, 1:00PM
When Seeing was Believing: The E.L. Trouvelot Astronomical
Drawings
Anybody
who actually knows the name "Trouvelot" probably knows it because of
that *other* thing. Justly so, but E. L. Trouvelot was also a
talented and trained artist who had access to some of America's
finest telescopes during a very exciting time. He was an excellent
observer who produced precise and detailed images of astronomical
objects. In 1882, he published a series of chromolithographs
illustrating some of the wonders he had observed, along with a
companion Manual that explained the illustrations. But the age of
visual observation had come to its end, and as the age of
photography progressed, Trouvelot's images were ignored, dismissed
and even ridiculed. Eventually, they were relegated to storage and
then forgotten. Now, in the new age of electronic imaging,
Trouvelot's Astronomical Drawings - and the Manual that accompanied
them - deserve a second look.
Jan Romer has been a happy visual observer for thirty years, and
enjoys making sketches at the eyepiece.
