All times are for Green Bank WV, which is eastern daylight time (i.e., UTC – 4 hours)
August 2, 2026 (Sunday)
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12:30 AM |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
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1:30 PM |
Registration at Jansky Lab Building |
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2:00 PM |
Welcome and Administrative Announcements |
Marcus Fisher |
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2:15 PM |
An Update on H Line Observing at Lichfield Radio Observatory |
Dr. Andrew Thornett |
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3:00 PM |
Solar Eclipses, Flares, and Occultations: 20 M Dish Demo |
Stephen Tzikas |
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3:45 PM |
2D Mapping of H Emission across the Milky Way using a simple Horn Antenna |
Robert Hammers |
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4:30 PM |
Introduction to Radio Astronomy (Online Video) |
Ed Harfmann |
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5:00 PM |
Dinner at GBO Cafeteria |
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6:00 PM + |
Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove |
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8:00 PM |
Drakes Lounge Tech Discussions & Social |
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August 3, 2026 (Monday)
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria |
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8:30 AM |
Registration at Jansky Lab Building |
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9:00 AM |
Welcome and Introductions |
Dr. Rich Russel |
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9:15 AM |
SARA Sections Overview / Update |
Stephen Tzikas |
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9:45 AM |
The Other Plaque: Green Bank and the Tully Fisher Relation |
Chett Mitchell
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10:15 AM |
Refreshment Break |
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10:30 AM |
My Works in mm-wave radio Astronomy |
Dimitry Fedorov |
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11:00 AM |
Review of interest and outcomes of the BAA’s monthly practical RA workshops |
Andrew Thornett
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11:30 PM |
Muon Detection |
Tom Crowley |
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12:00 PM |
Hydrogen Line Detection of Nearby Galaxies with a 1.5 Meter “Mini” Dish |
Jason Burnfield |
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12:30 PM |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
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1:30 PM |
Visualizing the Radio Sky: Raster Scan Maps from the Green Bank 20-Meter Telescope |
Adrian Clausell |
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2:00 PM |
Radio Interferometry using the AD8302 |
Mike Otte |
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3:00 PM |
Refreshment Break |
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3:15 PM |
Beginning Radio Astronomy – Will continue @ Drake’s Lounge after Dinner |
Robert Meade |
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3:30 PM |
40-foot Telescope Tour & Training (Bus will take people to telescope) |
Skip Crilly |
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5:00 PM |
Dinner at GBO Cafeteria |
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6:30 PM + |
Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove |
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8:00 PM |
Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions & Social |
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August 4, 2026 (Tuesday)
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria |
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9:00 AM |
Administrative Announcements at Jansky Lab |
Marcus Fisher |
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9:15 AM |
My H-Line Radio Telescope Journey |
Cathal O'Donghaile |
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9:45 AM |
SARA Outreach |
Tom Crowley |
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10:15 AM |
Refreshment Break |
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10:30 AM |
The Dwingeloo / Stockert Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
Dr. Wolfgang Herrmann |
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11:00 AM |
EMI/RFI Regulations vs. Radio Telescopes |
Bruce Randall |
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11:45 AM |
Adventures in Portable Dish Design and Construction |
Jason Burnfield |
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12:30 PM |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
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1:30 PM |
Noise Sources and Measurements Below 10 MHz |
Whitham D. Reeve (45 min) |
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2:15 PM |
Building and Using a Cosmic Ray Detector |
Tom Crowley |
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3:00 PM |
Refreshment Break |
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3:15 PM |
Group Photo |
Gary Memory |
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3:45 PM |
Muon Observing at LRO |
Dr. Andrew Thornett |
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4:15 PM |
From Dish to Detection: Simplifying the Pulsar Observing Pipeline at DSES |
Richard Hambly |
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5:00 PM |
Dinner at GBO Cafeteria |
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6:30 PM + |
Observations using Scope In a Box, 40', 20 m, and Radio Jove |
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8:00 PM |
Drakes Lounge Technical Discussions & Social |
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August 5, 2026 (Wednesday)
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8:00 AM |
Breakfast at GBO Cafeteria |
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9:00 AM |
Narrow bandwidth pulse pair observations using an interferometer |
Skip Crilly |
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9:45 AM |
The PicoMuon flies at last |
Dr. Andrew Thornett |
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10:30 AM |
Guest Speaker – Dr. Tony Remijan |
Dr. Tony Remijan |
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11:00 AM |
Technical Tours of GBO |
Sophie Saint Georges |
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12:30 PM |
Lunch at GBO Cafeteria |
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