California Trip - Day 9

Saturday, 26 September 2009 22:47

Today is the last full day in California for Gord and I.  To culminate the week, we spent the day at the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show, which was being put on by the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference.  What a fabulous show!  More gear than you can shake a stick at, and wonderful presentations by a variety of people in the astronomy industry.

In the morning, I took part in a presentation by Al Nagler (from Televue), where he spoke about how to choose eyepieces.  I also watched a presentation by David Ho (from Hotech) on recent advances in collimating Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescopes.

In the afternoon, I watched a wonderful presentation by Rusty Schweickart on preventing asteroid impacts and a prsentation by Sean Walker on Planetary Imaging.

After the presentations and shows, we met up with Mike Simmons and Sean Walker, and went for some drinks and bite to eat at Tokyo Wako, which was located across the street from the Pasadena Convention Center where PATS was being held.

Tonight is likely going to be an early night, considering we need to be up at 7am to prepare for our departure flights back to Winnipeg.