On May 28th, 2005 I attended RTMC for the day.  It was
quite an event with an overflow crowd of amateur
astronomers.  Here are a few images from the event:
This is the vendor area.  RTMC had many more vendors than any other Star Party I
have been to.  In attendance were Televue, Camera Concepts, Oceanside Photo and
Telescope, William Optics, Stellavue, Celestron, Meade, Astronomy to Go and many
others.
Below is the William Optics booth.  Both William and David were working the booth.  
That is David assisting a customer.
In the center of the next image is my new toy.  Well, one of the toys I bought that day
anyway.  It is the 2" Field Flattener / 0.8x Focal Reducer for my WO ZenithStar
80mm refractor.
Of course I had to take a photo of myself and Willaim Yang after buying the Field
Flattener.  He showed me one of the new toys he is about to start selling--their new
ZS 80mm APO.  It looks just like the Semi-APO I currently own, but the images are
completely color corrected.  I got to look through it during the day and the images
were sharp.  It was daylight lout, but the image looked pretty good to me.


RTMC 2005 Page 2
Riverside Telescope Makers Conference 2005