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* * * * * * * * * REGIONAL I.A.P.P.P. MEETING '94 * * * * * * * * *
(Fourth joint meeting of the Variable Star Section of the Hungarian
Astronomical Association and the Hungarian Wing of the I.A.P.P.P.)
--- FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ---
Title: "Cooperation Between Amateurs and Professionals in the
Recent Photometric Studies of Variable Stars"
Place: Hotel Juvenile, H-6500. BAJA, Petofi sziget 5., Hungary
Tel: (79)-324-022
Very nice surroundings, in a small island at the very center of Baja.
The hotel lies close to the bank of Sugovica river (which is a lateral
arm of the Danube), in the shadow of very large old poplars.
How to get Baja: Baja is a small town at the Danube near the Souhtern border
of Hungary. It is easily reachable by car from Budapest (from the
North) on the road no. 51, from Szeged (from the East) on the road
no. 55, from the direction of Nagykanizsa-Pecs (from the West) on the
roads no. 61-66-57-56-55. These roads are not highways but good ones
for driving.
Budapest is easily reachable from the largest airports of the World.
* There are several bus lines to Baja from the Nepstadion Bus Station,
Budapest, Tel.: (1)-252-4496. There is one bus line from Erzsebet teri
Bus Station, Budapest, Erzsebet (formerly Engels) ter, Tel.:
(1)-117-2966,
starting at 15:44 each days. The ticket to Baja is 11 DEM or 650 HUF.
* The direct trains start from Southern Railway Station (Deli Pu.),
Budapest, Tel.: (1)-175-6293 or (1)-155-8657.
Departures from Budapest are: 06:35, 13:35, 18:00 (each days)
Arrivals at Baja are : 10:05, 17:05, 21:45
Tickets are within the range of 10-12 DEM or 576-864 HUF('93 prices!)
Accomodation: There are very limited number of hotel rooms in the Hotel
Juvenile with 2 and 3 beds. We shall order these rooms for those
guests who will be sponzored by the Baja Observatory Foundation.
Other guests will be lodged in
Hotel Danube, H-6500, BAJA, Szentharomsag ter 6. Tel.: (79)-323-224 or
Hotel Sugovica, H-6500, BAJA, Petofi sziget, Tel.: (79)-321-755.
Also there is a possibility for participants coming by car with caravan
or tent to set them up in the area of the hotel for about 6 DEM/days.
Scientific goals: The main aim of the meeting is to collect the professional
and amateur astronomers working in the field of photoelectric photo-
metry of variable stars. We would like to give a general review of
the recent results of the variable star photometry - with a special
interest of those ones which partly or mostly based upon amateur ob-
servations. We also welcome speakers about the present situation and
the possible developments of the national or private observatories of
the region which have photoelectric observing projects. As there are
strong efforts to establish automatic telescopes and world-wide ob-
serving networks of such (or traditional) telescopes, we wait also for
discussions of this problem.
Preliminary Program:
April 29, 1994 (Friday):
afternoon: arrival and registration of foreign participants
free time for short walk in the town
April 30 (Saturday):
morning session (chairman: Biro, I. B.)
-recent activity of Hungarian and certain European amateur
variable star observer's working groups (BAV, BBSAG, ...)
especially in the sense of photoelectric photometry
-status report of different amateur observing projects
afternoon session (chairman: Mizser, A.)
-observatory reports
-poster presentation
-astronomical
late evening: coctail party, welcome address: Lord Major of Baja
-open discussions
May 1 (Sunday):
morning session (chairman: Nuspl, J.)
-invited lectures on the present status and future
perspectives of the traditional photoelectric photometry
-instrumentation, technical developments
afternoon session (chairman: Hegedus, T.)
-most recent scientific results of photoelectric photo-
metry of variable stars
-observing projects, international cooperations, joint
projects
-poster presentation, closing
evening: departure of most part the Hungarian participants
-visitation in the Baja Observatory
May 2 (Monday):
morning: departure of the foreigners
Considering that this traditional meeting has always been mainly
national one, here we present only the names of the Hungarian and
those foreign astronomers who has already sent their contribution.
The official language of the meeting will be English. Of course we
have several colleagues who can help in the translation if anybody
needs.
Invited (and review) speakers:
- Dr. Szeidl, B., director, Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
- Dr. Karetnikov, V. G., director, Odessa Astronomical Observatory
- Dr. Andronov, I., Odessa Astronomical Observatory, Odessa
- Dr. Kovacs, G., Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
- Dr. Olah, K., Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
- Dr. Szabados, L. Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
They give the skeleton of the Saturday afternoon & Sunday session.
Every additional lectures and posters will be welcome belonging to
the above outlined areas. The short abstracts and titles should be
sent to the President of the Scientific Organizing Committe. We
would like to print the proceedings of this meeting in the IAPPP Com-
munications, and also in a form of a small booklet for every partici-
pants. Thus, we would like to ask our future lecturers to send the
Title and the Abstract of their contributions in the form of an ASCII
file (via E-mail, if it has no figures) or in camera-ready printed
form (processed with any of the standard word-processors: ChiWriter,
MS Word, TEX, WordPerfect, etc. and printed by laser printers or ink
jet printers in good quality). Also there is a new possiblity: one
can upload his camera-ready pages onto the IAPPP area of our ASTROBASE
BBS in ARJ-compressed minimum 300 dpi resolution TIF or PCX format
file. All of these requests are valid for the posters, too. Deadline
of the arrival of such materials is March 15, 1994.
The completed, prepared posters can be either sent by normal mail or
brought by the authors themselves, personally.
The posters will be accepted arranged on A/2 or A/1 format cardboard.
Only the approval of the intention of the participation on the meeting,
and the preliminary title of the planned contribution can be sent via
fax, too. However, the final title, and the completed abstract should
be sent only via E-mail, or air mail in camera ready form. Other ma-
terial can hardly be taken into account.
Scientific Organizing Committee:
- Dr. Patkos, L. (President) - Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
H-1525 Budapest, Pf.67., Tel.: (1)-175-4122 Fax: (1)-156-9640
E-mail: patkos@ogyalla.konkoly.hu
h7303pat@huella.bitnet
ASTROBASE BBS: (79)-324-600 - max. 14400 bps, "IAPPP" area
- Dr. Szatmary, K. - Szeged Observatory, Szeged
- Nuspl, J. - Konkoly Observatory, Budapest
- Hegedus, T. - Baja Observatory, Baja
- Mizser, A. - HAA/VSS, Budapest
Local Organizing Committee:
- Hegedus, T. (President) - Baja Observatory, Baja
H-6500 Baja, Szegedi ut, PF.766., Tel./Fax: (79)-324-027
E-mail: h613heg@huella.bitnet
ASTROBASE BBS: (79)-324-600 - max. 14400 bps, "IAPPP" area
- Bagoczki, Cs. - HBC Inc.
- Borkovits, T. - ELTE University, Budapest & Baja Observatory
- Egri, J. - Baja Public Observatory, Baja
- Vaskuti, Gy. - KMG
This is only a very first announcement of our meeting. Please, contact
the presidents of the LOC and SOC in any question, suggestion etc.
Thank you very much for your interest, and hoping to see you in the meeting!
T. Hegedus, LOC
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