45th Annual Central Pennsylvania Consortium Astronomers’ Meeting
Saturday, April 18th, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Gettysburg College | Masters Hall
300 N. Washington Street, Gettysburg PA 17325
Overview
Gettysburg College will host the 45th Annual Central Pennsylvania Consortium Astronomers’ Meeting on Saturday, April 18th, 2026.
The conference will be held in Masters Hall.
We encourage both faculty and students to consider presenting a talk or poster in astronomy, astrophysics and astronomy education. We have been able to allocate 10-15 minutes for each presentation, depending on the number of people who would like to present. We wish to remind everyone that this is a “student friendly” conference. A tentative meeting agenda will be provided below.
Questions can be directed to Dr. Ryan Johnson.
Registration
Please register for the conference by filling out the web form. There is no registration fee and all students, postdocs, faculty and members of the astronomical community are welcome to attend.
The deadline is Friday April 3rd, 2026.
Schedule of Events (TBA)
Keynote speaker will be Dr. Carey Lisse, Planetary Astronomer; Stellar Astrophysicist; Infrared Spectroscopist
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Bio: Dr. Carey Lisse has over 40 years of experience in experimental and observational research that includes studies in astrophysics, detector physics, (bio)chemical physics, optics, electronics, and remote sensing data analysis. Receiving his PhD in Physics from University of Maryland in 1992, Dr. Lisse comes to us most recently as a Principal Research Scientist at John’s Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. There, his research has centered around the study of objects in and around our, and other, star systems. Dr. Lisse has also been a key member of several important space science missions, including the COBE satellite, Deep Impact, Spitzer, New Horizons, Interstellar Probe, and SPHEREx. In support of these space missions, his work focuses primarily on infrared spectroscopy of young stellar systems, dust, and objects that reside in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.