
Rockland Astronomy Club Presents

NORTHEAST
ASTRONOMY
FORUM
& SPACE EXPO
TM
THE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
APRIL
10th
2021
THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND MOST EXCITING ASTRONOMY & SPACE EXPO
THE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS-
Charlie Duke
Apollo 16 Moonwalker
Lunar Module Pilot
Tom Stafford NASA Astronaut
Apollo 10, Gemini 6, Gemini 9
Alan Stern Planetary Scientist
Principle Investigator New Horizons
Mission to Pluto and Beyond
Gerry Griffin & Mission Control Apollo Flight Director Gerry Griffin (Gold Team) and Mission Control Jerry Bostic,
John Aaron & Ed Fendell
ANNOUNCING
NEAF 2022
April 8 & 9
The most spectacular NEAF yet!
Live at Rockland Community College
Suffern, NY
2 HUGE DAYS \\ ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE \\ NEW YORK
"A spectacular event! Nowhere else can you find such an exciting array of programs brought together in one place, at one time."
“There is no other venue where you can see the very latest in astronomy equipment by all of the major manufacturers.”
LATEST NEAF NEWS
NEAF is also excited to announce the addition of Dr. Ed Guinan, Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences at Villanova University. Dr. Guinan is the lead author of the groundbreaking paper on the Dimming of BETELGEUSE.
ADDITIONAL TALKS BY
ALEX YOUNG - NASA Heliophysics Center, the Parker Solar Probe
TOM MULDER - Boeing Starliner, latest project updates
SAMUEL D HALE - Exec Director Mt Wilson Observatory and Grandson of George Ellery Hale
DIANNA COLMAN - President of Yerkes Future Foundation, Saving Yerkes
JANI RADEBAUGH - Dragonfly: Aircraft Explorer for Saturn's Moon Titan
WITH ADDITIONAL TALKS ON-
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 20TH ANNIVERSARY
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Online ticket sales are now open! Visit the ticket page to purchase now.
Vendor registration for NEAF 2020 remains open!
NEAF 2020 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station. Join us at this years show for lots of amazing guests and fantastic surprises.
Keep up with the latest news and pictures on our Facebook & Twitter sites.
FEATURING
THOMAS ZURBUCHEN
NASA Associate Administrator
"Artemis- Humanity's Return to the Moon"
2020 CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Tom Mulder Boeing Starliner
Jerry Ross NASA Astronaut
Samuel Hale Grs George Ellery Hale
Ed Guinan Dimming of Betelgeuse
Jani Radebaugh Project Dragonfly
Check back often as we continue to confirm our amazing line-up of guests for NEAF 2020
HOSTED BY
Joe Rao
Vince Coulehan
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ALEX YOUNG NASA Heliophysics Center
Dianna Colman Saving Yerkes


Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, the Rockland Astronomy Club will again host NEAF The Virtual Experience online. Paid attendees and exhibitors are invited to participate in this amazing online event featuring spectacular guests scheduled for April 10th 10am – 8pm EST, one day only.
NEAF 2021 The Virtual Experience
CLICK HERE ITS COMPLETELY FREE
STREAMING NOW
click on link above
2019 Vendors & Manufacturers
Adirondack Public Observatory
ADM Accessories
Amateur Astronomers Association
Amateur Astronomy Magazine
Amateur Astronomers Inc.
Antique Telescope Society
APM / Outdoor Sport Optics
Applied Surface Technologies
Astrel Instruments
Astrofactors
Astro Hutech / Borg
Astrodevices
AstronSCIENTIFIC
Astronomers without Borders
Astronomical League
Astronomical Society of Harrisburg
Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy Now Magazine
Astronomy Shoppe
Astronomy Technology Today
Astronomy To Go
Astro-Physics, Inc.
AstroPics.com
Atik Cameras
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Big Bang Prints.com
Camera Concepts & Telescopes
Camera Concepts for Kids
Canon USA Inc.
Celestial Chart
Celestron
Chilescope
C-Line Focusers
Classic Telescopes
Cloud Break Optics
Dark Sky New Mexico LLC
Dark Sky OnDemand
Daystar Filters LLC
Digital Optica
Discmounts Inc.
Explora-Dome (Poly Tank)
Explore Scientific LLC
Finger Lakes Instrumentation, LLC
Glatter Collimation by Starlight Instruments
Innovations Foresight
iOptron
International Occultation Timing (IOTA)
Jupiter Joe
InfiniTees Scientific Apparel
Innovations Foresight LLC
International Dark-Sky Association (IDSA)
Knightware
LIGO
Losmandy Astronomical Products
Lowell Observatory
Lunt Solar Systems LLC
Main Sequence Software
Maine Astronomy Retreat (MARS)
Matrix Machine Tool
Meade Instruments
Meet Star Gazers
Moonlite Telescope Accessories
New Jersey Astronomical Association
New Mexico Skies Astronomy Enclave
Oregon Observatory at Sunriver (Sunriver Nature)
Peter Scherff Meteorite Collection,
Primalucelab
Project PANOPTES
Questar
RainbowAstro
Ramapo Challenger Center
Revolution Imager
Rockland Astronomy Club, Inc.
Seymour Solar
Shrouds by Heather
Sightron Japan In
Simulation Curriculum
Sky & Telescope Magazine
Sky Watcher
Software Bisque
Space.com
Springer Publishing
Springfield Telescope Makers
Starlight Instruments, LLC
Starlight Xpress Ltd.
STC Optical Filter
Stellarvue
Suffern Robotics
Summer Star Party
Takahashi America
Teeter's Telescopes
Telescope Live
Telescope Support Systems
Tele Vue Optics
United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey
Unitron Italia Instruments
University Dark Sky Astronomy Consortium
USS Abraham Lincoln
Vernonscope
Vixen Optics
Wa-chur-ed Observatory
Westchester Amateur Astronomers
William Optics
Willmann-Bell, Inc.
Woodland Hills Telescopes
Yeier Optics
ZWO Co Ltd

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NEAF is the world’s prëeminent symposium for award winning talks, workshops, classes, and conferences. NEAF is an annual gathering of more than 4,000 professionals, amateurs, and space and astronomy enthusiasts, all coming together to share interests and passions.
NEAF brings over 120 vendors and exhibiters from around the world, representing every major manufacturer and dealer in the business, which also makes it one of the largest trade shows and collaborative venues of its kind in the world, not to mention an enthusiast’s shopping paradise.
NEAF is a true ‘Forum’ of events for anyone who has gazed upward to the night sky and found a curiosity to understand the cosmos that lies beyond our own thin atmosphere. Each year NEAF searches the globe to present an all star line up of amazing guests that are making history today. Nowhere else can you find such an exciting array of programs brought together in one place and at one time.
Quite simply- If space and astronomy interest you, then you don’t want to miss NEAF.

NEAF is a 501(c)3 educational non-profit event produced by the Rockland Astronomy Club, Inc.
