Dr. Frank Melsheimer with his 8" Newtonian

Don Schricker with a 10" Newtonian mounted tandem with a 7" folded refractor

Randall Wilcox (as a young punk kid) with his 10" F/7 Newtonian

Pat Michaud with his 8" F/5 Newtonian

Kevin Medlock's 4-1/4" F/26 unobstructed Schiefspiegler

Attendance: Approximately 200

This was a pivotal year for the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference as it moved out from the city lights to the nearby San Jacinto Mountains. The RTMC set up in Camp Isomata, the USC Music and Craft Conference Center in Idyllwild. This was a nice venue as it offered many nice facilities and a large field to set the telescopes up on.

Forty-two telescopes were brought to observe in the dark skies of the San Jacinto Mountains.

Speakers (partial):

• W. Malcolm Browne, "The History of Mirror Testing"
• Jack Borde, "Making Optical Instruments at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory"
• Dr. Frank Melsheimer, "Enginerring at Lick Observatory"
• John Sanford, "Astrophotography Techniques"
• Dr. James Matterson and Tom Johnson, "Schmidt Optics in Photography"

Merit Awards (partial):

• Kevin Medlock, "4-1/4" F/26 Unobstructed Schiefspiegler"

Fun on the Telescope Field