Attendance was down with the phase of the Moon, but that didn't stop participants from having a great time. The telescope making group from the Pacific Northwest, represented by Randy Johnson, started a mirror making class with one of the participants winning the completed mirror. Randy also started a tradition of field tours demonstrating various telescopes and telescope making techniques.

The Keynote Speaker was Richard Fienberg of Sky & Telescope magazine who spoke on how the Internet is changing our hobby.

Speakers

	Randy Johnson, "Optical Testing Demonstration"
	Jim Brunkella, "History of Astronomy"
	Tony Patta and Tony Salvatore, "Building an Observatory"
	George Keene, "6 Inch Camera Obscura"
	Peter Ceravolo and Douglas George, "Time Lapse Movie of Comet Hyakutake's Tail in Color"
	Chris Schur, "Digitized Astrophotography from Arizona"
	John Hoot, "CCD Time Lapse Photography"
	John Hoot, "A Simple CCD Spectrograph"
	Bob Stephens, "The Renaissance of Amateur Astronomy in Riverside"
	Richard Fienberg, "Amateur Astronomy in a Wired World: How the Internet is Changing Our Hobby"
	Mike Bennett, "Project Astro"
	Randy Johnson, "Internet Access - Telescope Making"
	Tim Robertson, "VCAS Astronomy Day Activities"
	Glenn Malcolm, "The RAS at the Orange Blossom Festival"
	Bob Bell, "NEAT Project - Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Project"
	Russell Sipe, Charles Morris, Ron Baalke, "Comet Hale-Bopp and the Internet" - panel discussion
	Gil Clark, "Robotic Telescopes for Education"
	Robert Staehle, "JPL Fire & Ice Project"
	ATM Group, Telescope Making Panel Discussion
	Burt Patterson, "Introduction to the Pegasus CCD Camera"

Merit Awards

	Mike Spooner, "Folded Refractor on a Beavertail Springfield Mount"
	R.A.T.S. (Riverside Astronomical Telescope Makers), "Excellence in Telescope Making Outreach"
	Bruce Sayre, "Innovative Low Power Observing System"
	Allen Hall, "Excellence in Design and Construction of a Large Low Cost First Telescope"
	Gary Wolanski, "Excellence in Metal Craftsmanship and Design"

Honorable Mentions

	Verryl Fosight, "Clever Solution to CCD Camera Positioning"
	George Cunning, "Well Made First Telescope"
	Jean Lilley/Fred Phillips, "Low Power, Easy to Use Portable Telescope"
	Jay Schwabe, "Detachable Rotating Upper Cage"
	Michael Schmidt, "Homemade Herschelian Reflex Finder"
	Debbie Dyke, "Well Done First Telescope"
	Gary Grue, "Advancing the Design of Large Lightweight Tubes"

Clifford W. Holmes Award

Randall Wilcox

Warren Estes Award

Paul Zwierzynski

Clyde Tombaugh Award

George Keene

The Thursday afternoon setup crew (left - right), Allan Guthmiller, Bill Seavey, Barbara Bean, Rick Bean, Bob Stephens & somebody hiding in the shadows The mile-long line of cars on Friday morning What are these two men doing? (Hint - That's Scott Roberts & Steve Edberg) Starsplitter Telescopes The Great JPL payoff of Russell Sipe for authoring those "anti Hale-Bopp spacecraft" Web pages Solar telescope Vendors and the Walker Observatory Larry Myers of Mountain Instruments Gary Wolanski received a Merit Award for his 6" f/5 handmade German equatorial Mike Sponner received a Merit Award for his 9" folded refractor on a Springfield mount Bill Seavey teaches the Beginners Corner The R.A.T.S. (Riverside Astronomical Telescope Makers) with their series of 6" f/5.5 Dobsonians Members of the Chabot Telescope Makers (left to right) Bob Schalck, Doug Berger, Denni Medlock, Kevin Medlock Gary Grue received an Honorable Mention for his 42 lbs. lightweight telescope tube