NorthWoods Starfest 2000

Hobbs Observatory
Fall Creek, WI

The Aug 4-6th, 2000 NorthWoods Starfest at the Hobbs Observatory with the Chippewa Valley ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

With featured sat night speaker John Dobson to a sold out crowd.
Dobson religiously believes in making telescopes with the simplest materials and by the simplest procedures. He spoke of amateur telescope making and his views on cosmology.

Some of his on-line writing are here @ magicpubs.com.

It doesn't matter that you might not agree with him, but it does matter that you think about it.

(Click on any thumbnail to see a larger 640x480 jpeg or 800x532 image ~40-~200k each or select the 'BIG Image' link to get a 1489x992 jpeg image)

Fri Night setup BIG image ~165K	Fri Night setup BIG image ~141K	Fri Night Starparty BIG image ~220K	Fri Night Starparty BIG image ~856K
CCD telescope controls BIG image ~462K	Fri Night Starparty BIG image ~217K	Fri Night Starparty BIG image ~707K	20 inch Obsession telescope BIG image ~103K
Big Dipper over Hobbs BIG image ~67K	Ursa Major over Hobbs BIG image ~208K	Casseopia over Hobbs BIG image ~63K	Big Dipper over Hobbs BIG image ~104K
Composite Crowd 1-4
Sat Night Crowd 1	Sat Night Crowd 2	Sat Night Crowd 3	Sat Night Crowd 4
Lots of Good Door Prizes	Drawing Door Prizes BIG image ~157K	Drawing a door prize winner	Its another Night Sky Beach Ball
Composite John Dobson & Audience 1& 2
John Dobson & Audience 1	John Dobson & Audience 2	John Dobson	John Dobson
John Dobson	John Dobson	John Dobson	John Dobson
John Dobson	John Dobson and Audience	John Dobson speaks BIG image ~163K	John Dobson speaks BIG image ~517K
BCNR Quiltwork BIG image ~160K	John Dobson answers questions BIG image ~113K	Michael Kauper & John Dobson	John Dobson fields questions
John Dobson fields more questions	Ben Huset & John Dobson	John Dobson fields still more questions	John Dobson
'Midnight Snack'	'Sleep' (not pictured here)	Sunday Breakfast line	Sunday Breakfast diners
Pancakes by David Olmstead	Pancakes by Bert Moritz	??? & John Tredwell checking the hashbrowns	Sunday Breakfast diners
Michael Kauper	Michael Kauper & Jim Russell	Bumper Stickers	Bumper Stickers
George Stecher and ?? sets up a heliostat for Solar Spectra Observing	?? observes some Solar Spectra	Jon Huset does some Solar Spectra Observing	See you next year!