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Directions:
Click to View Take I-91 to I-84 Get off at exit 69 RT-44 & RT-74 Follow RT-74 to RT-44 about 10 miles To the RT-44 & RT-74 intersection Note: The intersection will have a Drunkin Donuts, a gas station and a nursery Take left onto RT-44 and follow 2miles and the camp in on the left. Look for the Midway restaurant 500ft before the camp. Catering service supply by  
 Dr. David Ciardi is an Astronomer at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech. He is an active astronomer with over 100 publications mostly in the field of star formation and exoplanets. He is a member of the CoRoT and Kepler science teams; two spacecraft with dedicated missions to discover and characterize the extra-solar planets. Afer graduating from North Branford High School, he headed off to Boston University and the University of Wyoming to study astrophysics. After school, David went to the University of Florida to build infrared instruments for some of the world's largest telescopes including Gemini and the GTC. In 2002, David moved to Caltech to study how planets form and evolve around other stars. While living it up with palm trees in Southern California, a part of David still lives in New England.  Ivano Dal Prete began observing and drawing planets at the age of 8, with a distinctive style which unfortunately hasn’t changed much since. He has nonetheless produced hundreds of drawings of Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, and he still hopes he can catch Mercury in decent seeing one day. Meanwhile, he has been the Saturn section recorder for the Italian Astronomical Union, co-discovered a few asteroids and authored a number of articles on Saturn, on planetary observation and on the history of astronomy. Since he could never make a living out of it, he has also taught history of astronomy and of early modern science at Yale University and at the University of Minnesota. He loves planets, old stories and Paola.
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