The AAS Meeting Banquet
Published on Jan 10, 2007 at 1:26 pm.
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Last night was the AAS Meeting banquet. The food was OK, though not worth what we paid for it. After the banquet, though, instead of the normal entertainment, we had a film. The film was a very professionally done and gripping story of George Ellery Hale, who I blogged about in an earlier post. The film ran about an hour past when the banquet was supposed to end (10:30pm PST). A lot of people had planned to leave part way through, but most everyone stayed to the end. This was a very, very good tale of Hale’s life, ambitions, and his work in building the Yerkes, Mt. Wilson, and Palomar Observatories. It was also a sad tale of a brilliant man beset by demons and mental breakdowns. The story was gripping and you just couldn’t stop watching. I gather that it may be shown on PBS at some point later in the year. If that happens, the everyone interested in astronomy should see it, and even if you aren’t interested in astronomy (so why are you reading my blog???), you should see it from the human standpoint. It was wonderfully done.
-Astroprof
