The 42nd Annual Apollo Rendezvous

• Registration Form
• Box Lunch Order Form
• BBQ Flyer
• Schedule of Events
• Apollo Rendezvous Logo Wear
• DVD Pre-Order Form

Apollo Rendezvous is one of the noted annual gatherings of amateur astronomers in the United States. Each year, amateur astronomers join with friends and colleagues from around the world at the birthplace of aviation, Dayton, Ohio.

This years Apollo Rendezvous will be held at two locations, with Friday night being held at our dark sky location, John Bryan State Park Observatory in Yellow Springs, OH. That evening will consist of workshops, swap meet, tours of our facilities, showing of club scopes, door prizes , cook out and ending with an evening of star gazing.

Saturday's event will be held at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, with presentations on Astrophotography by Warren A. Keller, vendors, planetarium shows, door prizes, raffle, and ending the evening again at our dark sky site, John Bryan State Park Observatory with a BBQ and an evening of star gazing.

Go to the Schedule of Events for all the details.

Vendors
As always we will have vendors on site to help with your astronomy needs. Watch the website for a list of vendors who will be attending.

Swap Meet
We will once again have an area set up on Friday night at John Bryan State Park Observatory, for our Swap Meet. Have any items your not using? Bring them to the swap meet to sell. Please mark the registration if you plan to participate.

Food and Drink
A box lunch will be available for purchase in advance. Please see the Box Lunch Order Form for choices.

Door Prizes
Apollo Rendezvous wouldn't be without our door prizes. Many vendors have supplied us with great astronomical items to be given away. Door prizes will be drawn throughout the day on Saturday, so be sure to listen for your name!

Raffle
Once again we have great raffle prizes. Watch the website for a list of raffle items.

Stargaze and BBQ
As with past Apollo Rendezvous we will hold a star gaze and BBQ on Saturday night for all who attend Apollo Rendezvous. The BBQ is held at our dark sky site, John Bryan Observatory inside John Bryan State Park. Bring your scope or check out the views from the many club scopes on display--weather permitting of course. See the BBQ Flyer for more details.

Saturday's Presentations

• "Imaging Hardware Choices"
• "Software Choices for Acquisition and Preprocessing"
• "Postprocessing"

A child of the 60's--Star Trek, Lost in Space, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Apollo launches at dawn--like his heros, Warren boldly went where no man had gone before. As a boy, he was gifted with Fred Hoyle's Astronomy. On the cover was the glossiest, color photo of M27- the Dumbbell Nebula in the blackest, velvet sky. He knew from that moment he would someday photograph the heavens’ wonders.

Beginning with 35mm film in 1998, Warren switched to digital 'CCD' cameras in 2003. Artistic by nature, it's less about Cosmology and more about the thrill of the hunt for the myriad of beautiful shapes and colors throughout the universe.

Warren has the ability to reduce the difficult concepts of Astro-Imaging to the essentials and effectively teach it to others. His Astrophoto tutorial business IP4AP was named a SKY & Telescope Magazine "Hot Product" in 2007, and he has given thousands of clients the world over, a 'quick start' to taking their own great photos. It is his desire to convince new imagers that they can accomplish anything they want in amateur Astrophotography, while emphasizing the importance of artfulness in a largely left-brained hobby.

Warren is proud to have been published as a photographer and author in: SKY & Telescope, Astronomy, AstroPhoto Insight, Amateur Astronomy, and Nightscape magazines, and many places on the World Wide Web, most prestigiously- NASA's APOD and Universe Today. His work can be viewed at www.BillionsandBillions.com. Three prints were chosen for 2012's prestigious Starstruck astrophoto exhibit at Maine's Bates College. His prints are offered exclusively by Exposures International gallery of Sedona, Arizona. He is currently writing a book for Springer Press, and preparing a new tutorial series. He was Atik Camera's US representative in 2009-2010 and is a consultant to MSB-Astroart, and Celestron where he co-designed AstroFX software.

Warren has presented at the Advanced, the North East, and the Midwest Astro-Imaging Conferences, the Black Forest, Texas, Okie-Tex, Winter, and Hidden Hollow Star Parties, and to groups as varied as Boy and Girl Scouts, Chambers of Commerce, Rotaries, and camera clubs.

Apollo Rendezvous Bonus!

Two of Warren's excellent DVD products, Photoshop Foundations Superdisk and Soup to Nuts 2.5 hours of MaxIm DL/Astroart DVDs are available at a discount for pre-orders or attendees of Apollo Rendezvous.

Photoshop Foundations, featuring Basics, Intermediate 1 & 2 as well as the MSB Astroart bonus normally retails for $99.95 but for AR is only $75. In the new series, Soup2Nuts Part 1 & 2, Warren walks you through changes to Photoshop, MaxIm DL & Astroart with object specific and advanced processing. Retail is $49.95 but AR discount for pre-orders and attendees is only $39.95.