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2008 Annual Meeting Photo Gallery

Photos courtesy of Rich Berendsen, Paul Deans, Andrew Fraknoi, Kenneth Frank, Mary Kay Hemenway, Anna Hurst, and James Manning.

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Meeting Within a Meeting
Workshops
ASP Awards Reception & Banquet

Meeting Within a Meeting
St. Louis and the Arch	Michael Gibbs, Jim Manning, and Andy Fraknoi	SOFIA Booth
Michael Gibbs and Sandi Billings with the newly-published Chicago Conference Proceedings	Michael Gibbs, Mercury Editor Paul Deans, and Marni Berendsen	Kenneth Frank with BadAstronomy.com's Phil Plait
Marni Berendsen, Kenneth Frank, and David Bruning pose with "Johannes Kepler" .	Anna Hurst demonstrates a Pocket Solar System.	Suzy Gurton at the ASP's ASTROZONE table with Andrea Schweitzer, IYA Coordinator for the AAS.
"Johannes Kepler" speak with meeting attendees	Christi Whitworth, "Johannes Kepler", and Anna Hurst	Jim Manning
ASP President Jim Kaler	Bruce Partridge	Mary Kay Hemenway
Marc Gineris	Michael Gibbs
Workshops
Educators from around the country work on hands-on astronomy activities during the weekend workshops.	Marni Berendsen, Vivian White, and Joan Chamberlin of the Astronomical Society of Northern New England.	Kenneth Frank, Vivian White, and Marni Berendsen with a workshop participant
Marni Berendsen with workshop participants	Workshop participants get acquainted	Vivian White makes a comet
Checking out the "comet"	Vivian White explains the Designing Comet Aprons activity.	Examining the "comet".
Workshop participants design comet aprons.	Workshop participants present their ideas for comet aprons, in full four-part harmony.	Workshop participants learn about why scientists think that there may be frozen water on the Moon and how LCROSS will look for it.
Making the Moon's surface	Discussing the Moon Cratering activity	Making craters
Making craters	Gathering around the "Sun".	Examining the phases of Venus.
Discussing the Phases of Venus activity.	Marni Berendsen, Kenneth Frank, and Vivian White distribute prizes to workshop participants	Storyteller Lynn Moroney shares sky tales during a pre-conference workshop: "Telling Science Like a Story: Storytelling Techniques for IYA Education Programs".
Rob Sparks of NOAO talks about GalileoScopes.	Suzy Gurton, Mary Dussault, and Ashley Martin examine textiles on display during the "Cross-Cultural Astronomy in Informal Settings - Collaborations with Integrity" workshop.
ASP Awards Reception & Banquet
ASP Annual Awards Banquet gathering	Sandi Billings shows off a bottle of "Galileo's Astronomical Ale"	At the reception prior to the ASP Award Banquet, complimentary "Astronomical Ale" was provided by Kris Koenig, who debuted a trailer for his upcoming PBS documentary, "400 Years of the Telescope".
Trying out the Galileo telescope optics	Jeanne Bishop with Emmons Award winner Chris Impey	Mary Kay Hemenway, Jim Manning, Michael Gibbs, and Jim Kaler
ASP Board of Directors	Jim Manning addresses banquet attendees	Kris Koenig speaks at the banquet
Marc Gineris presents the Amateur Achievement Award to Steve Mandel	Gary Fujihara receives the Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach Award from Scott Roberts	Jeanne Bishop with Thomas J. Brennan Award winner Wil van der Veen
Bruce Partridge presents the Klumpke-Roberts Award to Dava Sobel	Mary Kay Hemenway with Robert J. Trumpler Award winner Anjum Mukadam	Tim Slater with Muhlmann Award winner Karl Glazebrook
Philip Sakimoto presents the Richard H. Emmons award to Chris Impey	ASP 2008 Award winners with Jim Kaler	2008 ASP award winners with Jim Manning