Saturday April 28th, 2012
9:00AM - 4:00PM	Solar Star Party
9:00AM - 11:30AM	Saturday Workshop: Solar imaging with Stephen Ramsden - Preregistration Required
11:00AM	Welcoming Remarks by Alan Traino, Rockland Astronomy Club with Sky & Telescope Magazine and Astronomy Magazine
11:15AM - 12:15PM	Robert Naeye - S&T Editor The Venus Transit
12:30PM - 2:00PM	Stephen Ramsden - the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project Also introducing Dr. Steele Hill with NASA Goddard
2:15PM - 3:15PM	Dr. Mark Clampin - NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
3:30PM - 4:30PM	Dr. Joseph Liske - the European Extremely Large Telescope
4:45PM - 6:00PM	Saving Hubble the movie - presented by David Gaynes
Sunday April 29th, 2012
10:00AM - 4:00PM	Solar Star Party
9:00AM - 11:00AM	Sunday Workshop: Tom Fields You Can Almost Touch the Stars! This hands-on workshop for amateurs who want to learn from scratch how to do spectroscopy. Preregistration Required
12:00PM - 12:15PM	Welcoming Remarks by Alan Traino, Rockland Astronomy Club with Sky & Telescope Magazine and Astronomy Magazine
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Marni Berendsen - The Astronomical Society of the Pacific Ten Common Challenges Astronomy Clubs Face and the Keys to Solving Them
1:30PM - 3:30PM	Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkin - the Discovery Channel’s The Meteorite Men
3:30PM - 4:30PM	David Eicher - Editor of Astronomy Magazine Astronomy’s new frontier
4:30PM	Closing Remarks and Raffle Prizes