[vsnet-alert 1089] (fwd) VSOLJ meeting 2nd circular

[Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

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Annual VSOLJ meeting.  Aug 23-24 1997 in Shiga, Japan.

-2nd  announcement

We are very honor to held annual VSOLJ (Variable star Observers League in
Japan) meeting with many guests in August.
We send you the program for the meeting (but, not finally fixed yet.)
If you plant to attend our meeting and not apply yet, please write to us
soon.

Date:
Aug 23-24 (Sat-Sun) 1997 at Dynic Astro-Park, (Taga-cho, Shiga prefecture, 
Japan) 

Dynic Astro-Park is located in Taga town , Siga Prefecture near Kyoto. 
It takes 30 minutes from Kyoto station to Maibara station that is nearest
for Dynic Astro-Park by Kodama super express of JR line train. We can take
you up at Maibara station of JR Shinkan-sen super express train at 13:05JST
or Kyoto (IAU General Assembly) by car.

$80 for registration including supper, light breakfast and lunch.
Loading at Dynic Astro-Park is the Japanese style that all participants
sleep in one large room together. 
We will also offer a hotel near Astro-Park for foreign guests.

Official languages in this meeting are English and Japanese.

Schedule
Aug 23 (Sat)
     13:00 JST   Registration
     13:30       Lectures and observation reports
     18:30       Supper
     19:30       Star watching
     21:30       Mixer

Aug 24 (Sun)
     09:00       Annual report
     10:00       Lectures and observation reports
     12:00       Lunch
     13:00       Excursion to Hikone castle museum
                 (historical telescope of Ikkansai Kunitomo
                  - famous astronomer at Edo era.)
     16:00       Close


Lectures and reports
Janet A. Mattei*  Impact of Ground-Based Monitoring of Variable Star
                  Observers (including general activities of the AAVSO, 
                  the contributions
                  of Japanese observers to AAVSO)
John Percy*       How Amateur Astronomers Contribute　to our Understanding
                  of Pulsating Stars 
R.Mennickent*     Observing facilities in chilean observatories and 
                  My current CV research
Kazuo Nagai       Observation of YY Eri
Seiichiro Kiyota  Observed minima of eclipsing binaries by VSOLJ members
Nobuhiro Makikuchi  Report of variable star festival in last fall.
Minoru Wakuda     Nova search in Japan
Osamu Ohsima      Activity of Amateur PEP observers in Japan 
Osao Higehisa     Akio Koyama's the Last Observations and the Last Mutter
Mine Takeuchi*    What kind of observation is expected for studying
                  nonlinearity of steller pulsation ?

* invited speaker

Contact to: Susumu Takahashi e-mail:HHF00200@niftyserve.or.jp

                                                     Chair of VSOLJ,
                                                     Keiichi Saijo

                                                     Local committee;
                                                     Susumu Takahashi
                                                     Taichi Kato 
                                                     Seiichiro Kiyota
                                                     Makoto Watanabe

S. Kiyota
Lab. Stress Physiology
Nat. Inst. Agrobiolo. Resour.

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