Japanese version
Japanese version
The Special Annual Meeting of VSOLJ - The 1st (unofficial) worldwide joint meeting of variable star observers held in Japan for professionals and amateurs.
This summer the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will be held in Kyoto, Japan. By taking this opportunity, the Variable Star Observers League in Japan (VSOLJ) plan to held a meeting for variable star observers at Dynic Astro-park near Kyoto. We are very please if many variable star observers visiting Kyoto also attend to our meeting.
Held on;
August 23-24, 1997
8/23(Sat)
13:00 Registration
13:30-17:30 Oral presentation session
18:00-19:00 supper
19:30-21:30 join to weekly public open house of Dynic observatory.
22:00- mixer
8/24(Sun)
8:00- 9:00 breakfast
9:00-10:30 annual report of VSOLJ
10:30-12:00 guest speech of invited speakers
12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00-15:30 excursion
(Hikone castle and old telescope in the castle museum.)
16:00 close
(time schedule is still preliminary, may be changed in the 2nd
announcement.)
Held at;
Dynic Astro-Park (Taga-cho, Siga prefecture, Japan)
Dynic Astro-Park is located in Taga town , Siga Prefecture near Kyoto.
It takes for minutes from Kyoto station to Maibara station that is
nearest for Dynic Astro-park by Kodama super express of JR line train.
$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 if you prefer.
Official language in this meeting is English and Japanese.
We are appreciate your short talk about your research, recent activity of variable star organization in your country, etc. We will arrange some space for posters. We also appreciate your poster material about research result of variable stars.
When you plan to join to our meeting, please e-mail to (Mr.) S. Takahashi (HHF00200@niftyserve.or.jp).
The Program of presentations is not fixed yet and will be announced in the 2nd circular around July.
Chair of VSOLJ,
Keiichi Saijo
Local committee;
Susumu Takahashi
Seiichiro Kiyota
Taichi Kato,
Makoto Watanabe
This announcement is free to re-post to other mailing-list. Thank you.
S. Kiyota
Lab. Stress Physiology
Nat. Inst. Agrobiolo. Resour.
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