34th Annual Central Pennsylvania Consortium Astronomers' Meeting

That was very interesting event I attended today.

 34th Annual Central Pennsylvania Consortium Astronomers' Meeting was held in Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.


Here are few links related to the event:
1. Event's main page

2. Event's schedule

3. Pictures from the College's campus

And here are pictures are from the event:

The beautiful building where we met:


Building inside

 Reception desk

Auditorium is ready for gusts and speakers 

Ryan Lane (Dickinson College).
Presenting: "Modeling the Evolution of the Cataclysmic Variable V723 Cassiopeia"

Arpita Roy (Penn State University).
Presenting: "The Quest for Habitable Worlds Using Doppler Spectroscopy"

Harold Williams (Montgomery College)
Presenting how to do 3D video

Niel Brandt (Penn State University).
Presenting: "A Good Hard Look at Growing Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe"

During coffee brakes attendees met in the hall and shared poster presentations.

F&M ARCC Students (Franklin and Marshall College), "The Arecibo Remote Command Center at F&M" 

Stephanie Klein (Kutztown University),
"High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of R Arae: An Active Interacting Binary Star with a Blended Spectrum" 

 Drinking coffee and learning.

Jenae Shoup (Kutztown University),
"Photometric Analysis of the Recently Discovered W UMa Star NR Camelopardalis: Period change and Spot Migration" 

Billy Cimorelli (Kutztown University), "Multicolor Light Curve of the Recent Supernova SN2014J" 

It looks like most popular one:
Scott Rogers (Kutztown University),
"Spots on the Move for the Magnetically Active Binary System DV Piscium" 

After lunch we jumped back into space science.

Andrea Lommen (Franklin and Marshall College)
Presenting: "Einstein's Last Legacy: Measuring Wrinkles in Space-time"

Emma Handzo (Franklin and Marshall College)
Presenting: "Characterizing the Timing Noise of NANOGrav Pulsars"

Howard Bond (Penn State University)
Presenting: "The Curious Case of Hevelius's Nova of 1670, CK Vulpeculae"

John Stein (Geneva College)
Presenting: "Building an Affordable Observatory at Geneva College"

Jack Madden (Franklin and Marshall College)
Presenting: "Automating the Visual Task of Pulsar Identification"

Jonathan Hargis (Haverford College)
Presenting: "The Predicted Number and Distribution of Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies and the Implications for Lambda+CDM"

Closing the event.

I just want to say thank you to organizers, speakers and all contributors to the event.

If I understood 10% of what presenters are delivered it's a very big deal, because itpushed me to some wonderful ideas I can pursue in the future.

THANKS THANKS THANKS to you guys!