Our Speakers for this year are:

Richard Bohner


Richard has been a member of ASNH since 2003. Presently he live in Arizona where he is a volunteer docent at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. He gives historic tours of the observatory during the day and night sky tours with telescopes in the evening. He is also a public lecturer and he does some of the astronomy training for the public outreach staff.

Ruben Kier

Ruben has many accolades in the field of Astronomical imaging. His photo's have been published in both Astronomy Magazine and Sky and Telescope Magazine too. But thats not all he has many articles that have been published in Astronomy Magazine over the years. Recently Ruben has reinvented himself once again by taking on the Lecture circuit with topics including: Imaging, light pollution, and building an observatory.

Mathew Marulla

Mathew Marulla has been an astronomer and telescope maker since the age of five, when he received his older sister’s hand-me-down 60mm Tasco telescope. He studied Astrophysics at the University of Arizona and eventually ended up with a career in software engineering. He has given talks on telescope making and astronomy topics at the Connecticut Start Party, The Conjunction in Northfield, Massachusetts, The Northeast Astronomy Forum in Rockland, New York, and many local astronomical society events. He is a former president of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society, a contributing author to the latest edition of The Oxford Astronomy Encyclopedia, and a regular speaker at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, New Hampshire. He has designed and built about 15 telescopes over the years including a Split-Ring Newtonian that earned him a first-place award at the annual Stellafane Amateur Telescope Maker’s convention in Springfield, Vermont. Matt is best known to the online community as the creator of The ATM Page and its successor, AstronomyDaily.com; and as the chief technical officer of SLOOH.com, the live online observatory.