IOTA Booth at North East Astro Forum NEAF

IOTA Booth at North East Astro Forum (NEAF) 2014 Ted Blank IOTA 2014 Annual Meeting College Park, MD

Home Locations for 51 Visitors to IOTA Booth at NEAF 2014

Thanks to Steve and Cindy Conard, Bruce and Dylan Holenstein, Bruce Berger, Al and Alexandra Carcich

Booth Activities Equipment demonstration VTI running and locked onto satellites Li. Movie “measure your own occultation” Loop of videos of previous occultations and grazes playing continuously • Posters to explain the background • Handouts of “all occultations in the next month” • Friendly and good-looking booth attendants • •

As part of the NEAF Pro-Am Conference (NPAC) we again offered the class in “Getting Started in Occultation Timing” (also broadcast live on Ustream) This resulted in a big discount on the price of the booth.

Thanks to Brad Timerson for quickly generating a map of all occultations for the next month

Follow-up for 2014 So Far • Sent out a follow-up email to all visitors • Invited experienced IOTA members to contact visitors who live close to them (several have done so)

Next Steps • Consider NEAF 2015 (they do want us back) – April 18 and 19, 2015 • Northeast Astro Imaging Conference – Precedes NEAF, also gave a talk there this year • Looking into ASAE in Tucson, November 2014 • NEAF Pro-Am Conference (NPAC) will grow – shall we increase our involvement? – In 2014: IOTA, Lowell Amateur Research Initiative (LARI), “Target Asteroids”, STARMUS