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Most Recent Meeting Presentations
HAL Meeting Presentation Archives (Pre-Phil Whitebloom, prior to 2019)

Presentations in each section are in chronological order, newest last.

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Outreach Presentations

Galaxy Quest Sept 2006 (PPTX 3MB) (PDF 2.7MB)
HAL at Greenfest, May 2012 - Wayne Baggett (PPTX MB) (PDF MB)
HAL Sky Scanning (RNC Event), Sept. 2015 - Mike Krauss (PPTX MB) (PDF MB)
HAL(O) History - Chris Miskiewicz/Chas Rimpo,Editor (PPTX 43.3MB) (PDF 17.8MB)

Observation Aids & General Information

Constellation Hunter Observer Form - Teresa Palomar (DOCX 20KB) (PDF 67KB)
- Observation Log Form - Teresa Palomar (PDF 26KB)
Evolution of Eyepieces (PDF 2.6MB)
Mars Observation Form - James Willinghan (JPEG 726KB) (PDF 35KB)
Messier (Telrad) Charts (PDF 611KB)
Messier Checklist - Pennington Order (PDF 26KB)

AstroSchool Presentation Materials

May 2003 - The Ones That Move - Jerry Persall (PPTX 4.9MB) (PDF 3.2MB)
June 2003 - Star Stuff - Jerry Persall (PPTX 5.4MB) (PDF 5.9MB)
June 2003 - Size and Distance Matters - Jerry Persall (PPTX 282KB) (PDF 328KB)
Jan 2004 - Here Comes Saturn! - Jerry Persall (PPTX 3.5MB) (PDF 4.4MB)
Nov 2013 - Eyepieces 101 - Chris Todd (PPTX 1MB) (PDF 494KB)
Jan 2014 - Filters - Chris Todd (PPTX 3.5MB) (PDF 1.5MB)
Feb 2014 - Astrophotography: Image Calibration - Chris Todd (PPTX 8.5MB) (PDF 1.5MB)
April 2014 - Star Hopping & Stat Charts (PPTX 2.1MB) (PDF1.3 MB)
June 2014 - Basic Image Processing (PPTX 1MB) (PDF 500KB)

Meeting Presentation Materials

2019

HAL Meeting January - Jim Johnson (PPTX 19MB) (PDF 3.8MB)
Bob Dutilly - Spacecraft Mission Development (PPTX 71MB) (PDF 2.8MB)
HAL Meeting February - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 212MB) (PDF 198MB)
HAL Meeting March - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 54.8MB) (PDF 5.4MB)
HAL Meeting April - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 170MB) (PDF 3.4MB)
HAL Meeting May - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 28MB) (PDF 3.3MB)
HAL Meeting June - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 96MB) (PDF 2.4MB)
HAL Meeting July - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 95MB) (PDF3.9MB)
HAL Meeting August - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 248MB) (PDF 5MB)
HAL Meeting September - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 87MB) (PDF 7.4MB)
HAL Meeting October - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 8.8MB) (PDF 1.8MB)
HAL Meeting November - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 127MB) (PDF 3.5MB)
HAL Meeting December - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 384MB) (PDF 10MB)

2020

HAL Meeting January - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 20MB) (PDF 1.55MB)
HAL Meeting February - Victor Sanchez (PPTX 47.3MB) (PDF 2.9MB)
HAL Meeting March (CANCELLED)
HAL Zoom Meeting April - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 187.7MB) (PDF 4.8MB)
Jim Johnson - The Celestial Sphere-Part 1 (PPTX 1.56MB)(PDF 351KB)
Jim Johnson - The Celestial Sphere-Part 2 (PPTX 4.5MB)(PDF 657KB)
Jim Johnson - The Celestial Sphere-Part 3 (PPTX 1.65MB)(PDF 637KB)
Steve Conard - New Horizons Parallax Program(PPTX 969KB)(PDF 334KB)
HAL Zoom Meeting May - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 104MB) (PDF 14.7MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting June - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 181MB) (PDF 19.4MB)
Jim Johnson - AstroSchool (7/14/2020) (PPTX 8.4MB) (PDF 935KB)
HAL Zoom Meeting July - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 56.6MB) (PDF 9.2MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting August - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 103.5MB) (PDF 4.4MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting September - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 59MB) (PDF 10.7MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting October - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 78.5MB) (PDF 7.7MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting November - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 119MB) (PDF 5.6MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting December - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 4.15MB) (PDF 2.22MB)

2021

HAL Zoom Meeting January - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 60.9MB) (PDF 8.25MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting February - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 74MB) (PDF 3.7MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting March - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 85MB) (PDF 6.9MB)
Polar Alignment and AstroImaging - John Nagy (PDF slides: 15.7MB) (Recorded Zoom session; huge MP4: 933MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting April - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 94.0MB) (PDF 4.55MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting June - Phil Whitebloom (PPTX 40.0MB) (PDF 3.1MB)
The Great North American Eclipse of 2024: Part 1 - Jim Johnson: Slides: (PPTX 9.4MB) (PDF 1.25MB)
Zoom recording of June mtg w/Jim Johnson's presentation: (Full: 543 MB) (Audio only: 104 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting July - Phil Whitebloom (PDF 11.6MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting July - Chat Log (text)
Zoom recording of July mtg w/Rob Zellem's exoplanet presentation [from approx. 22:30 to 1:30:00]: (Full: 636 MB) (Audio only: 122 MB)
Exoplanet Watch - You Can Help NASA Observe Other Worlds!
HAL Zoom Meeting August - Phil Whitebloom (PDF 3.3 MB)
Zoom recording of August mtg w/Nick Dutton's Mini-RF presentation [from approx. 26:40 to 1:28:00]: (Full: 445 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting September - Phil Whitebloom (PDF 12.1 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting September - Chat Log (text)
Zoom recording of September mtg w/Dan Milisavljevic's Next Galactic Supernova presentation [from approx. 21:40 to 1:38:00]: (Full: 522 MB) (Audio only: 118 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting October - Phil Whitebloom (PDF 10.4 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting October - Chat Log (text)
Zoom recording of October mtg (no speaker): (Full: 488 MB) (Audio only: 75.6 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting November - Phil Whitebloom (PDF 14.0 MB)
HAL Zoom Meeting November - Chat Log (text)
Zoom recording of November mtg w/Carey Lisse's New Horizons and the Kuiper Belt presentation [from approx. 11:50 to 1:45:00]. Grace Coventry's presentation on Unistellar eVscope begins at approx. 1:45:20. (Full: 390 MB) (Audio only: 127.0 MB)

Last modified: November 21, 2021 @ 15:00 EST