INVITED LECTURES

3:00 THREE NINETEENTH CENTURY PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMERS’ VIEWS ON LIFE BEYOND EARTH
Donald E. Osterbrock, Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz

3:25 STARLIGHT AND STARLETS: HARVARD’S FAIR COMPUTERS IN THE 1890S
Barbara L. Welther, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

3:50 “I AM ALMOST CERTAIN...”: WILLIAM HUGGINS AND THE FIRST ATTEMPTS TO MEASURE STELLAR MOTION IN THE LINE OF SIGHT
Barbara Becker, WestEd and University of California, Irvine

4:15 “HE STILL BLUSHES WHEN HE THINKS ABOUT IT”: HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL’S ENCOUNTER WITH EROS
David DeVorkin, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

4:40 THE BEAUTIFUL EARLY TELESCOPES OF WARNER AND SWASEY, INCLUDING THE J.A. BRASHEAR AND C.S. HASTINGS OPTICAL COLLABORATION
John W. Briggs, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago

5:05 MODERN COMETARY MODELS USING ANCIENT CHINESE OBSERVATIONS
Donald K. Yeomans, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Presented by the ASP History Committee
Katherine Bracher, Whitman College (chair)
John W. Briggs, University of Chicago
Roy H. Garstang, University of Colorado
Richard A. Jarrell, York University
E.C. Krupp, Griffith Observatory
Donald E. Osterbrock, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joseph S. Tenn, Sonoma State University
Barbara L. Welther, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Thomas R. Williams, Rice University