Tours:

Thursday, May 3 -  Spacewatch 

The Spacewatch telescope will have an open house 2-4 pm. Members
of the Spacewatch team will show the telescope and demonstrate the
detection software. You have to provide your own transportation
(or you can email us to help find someone to ride with) to Kitt Peak
(about 50 miles SW from Tucson). To reach Kitt Peak from the hotel,
go west on Speedway to I-10 and go south a few miles to the I-19 
exit (south towards Nogales) and take the first exit to the right
(west) to Ajo Way (route 86). Follow this all the way to the Kitt
Peak turnoff. Allow 1.5 hours each way. You can find a map HERE
 
Park in the visitors parking lot at the top, and walk back down
the road about 100m to the Spacewatch telescopes. See the map here.
 
where the 0.9-m Spacewatch telescope is shown just south of the 4-m
and 2.3-m in the Steward Observatory area (the 0.5-m is now a storage
room).
  
Friday, May 4 - Steward Observatory Mirror Lab

Dean Ketelsen will lead a tour of the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab
located under the east side of the football stadium starting at 6 pm.
It is a 15 minute walk from the hotel south on Campbell Ave. to Enke Dr.
and to the stadium (there will be a map in your registration packet).
You will see the rotating oven that produced the two 8.4-m (f/1.1!!!)
LBT mirrors and the progress they have made on figuring these monsters
with their computer controlled stressed-lab polishers. This is guaranteed
to give you glass envy.

After the tour, you might want to attend the Tucson Amateur Astronomy
Association (www.tucsonastronomy.org) at Steward Observatory. Greg
Peisert is scheduled to talk on "Near-Earth Objects (NEOs): The Threat
& The Remedy".

Sunday. May 6 - Catalina Sky Survey 

The CSS will have an open house 3-6 pm in the Catalina mountains north-
east of Tucson. CSS team members will describe the telescope (recently
upgraded to a 0.7-m Schmidt) which is close to coming back on-line. You
will have to provide your own transportation (or we can try to find
someone you can ride with). It is a 1.5 hour drive from the hotel up a
21-mile winding mountain (parts are torn up for widening) to the 
observatory. It is at 8250 foot elevation in the pines (people with
respiratory problems should take note). A map will be provided with
registration.

Also in the registration packet will be information on the several
excellent museums and galleries on campus as well as other attractions
in the Tucson area.