TriStar 2025
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Tri*Star* -- The Triad Star Festival, is an one-day conference presented by Greensboro Astronomy Club and hosted on the main campus of Guilford Technical Community College. It has been held annually since 2001. The conference features presentations by astronomy researchers, educators and enthusiasts, along with Dennis Hands Memorial Astro-imaging Contest and prize drawings. The event is free and open to the public.
2025 Speakers
TriStar 2025 is March 1st and will once again be held in the Koury Auditorium on the main campus of Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, NC.
This year's schedule:
8:30 a.m. – Doors open
9:15 a.m. – Welcome and announcements
9:30 a.m. – Eve Vavagiakis, Duke University, “A new generation of millimeter and submillimeter observations for cosmology and astrophysics”
10:30 a.m. – Break
11 a.m. – Richard Gray, Appalachian State University, “Probing the Personalities of Stars through their Spectra”
Noon: Lunch Break, Solar Observing (weather permitting)
2 p.m. – Ken Brandt, Robeson Planetarium & Science Center, “Up From the Ashes: the coolest space missions that most people have never heard of”
3 p.m. – Break
3:30 p.m. – Barbara Becker, University of California-Irvine, “Horrid Quasar: the Redshift Controversy”
4:30 p.m. – Final announcements and prize drawings
Contact Us
More information can be found on the GTCC TriStar event page
Have a question or suggestion? Email Tom English, Director, Cline Observatory and GTCC professor.
T-SHIRT ORDERS
IF YOU PRE-ORDERED A T-SHIRT, PLEASE VISIT THE GAC TABLE TO PICK UP YOUR ORDER. ANY UNPAID ORDERS MUST BE PICKED UP BY THE END OF LUNCH. UNPAID ORDERS WILL BE RELEASED FOR SALE. THERE WILL BE EXTREMELY LIMITED ADDITIONAL T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE.
If you pre-ordered a shirt and have not yet paid, you can use a credit or debit card; please use the appropriate button below (there is a $1 service fee included in the price of each item). Use the following links for card payment.
Men's t-shirt (crew neck) $25 pre-order ($30 day of event)
Women's t-shirt (v-neck) $25 pre-order ($30 day of event)
Sweatshirts (crew neck) $35 pre-order ($40 day of event)
Note: 2X (XXL) and 3X (XXXL) sizes are an additional $2.
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