wpo - meetings & events
2002 RAS-BAA Pro-Am Meeting - Cambridge University
2002
Jan 26: An excellent full day meeting
convened by Dr Margaret Penston [RAS] at the Institute of Astronomy - Sackler
Lecture Theatre - Cambridge that attracted some 50 amateur and professional
astronomers from around the country who gathered to discuss work of mutual
interest. The short presentations covering a wide range of topics and were
chaired by Nial Tanvir and Roger Pickard. The lunch break included a conducted
tour of the observatories.
Programme
Guy Hurst
- Pro-Am co-operation in handling nova and supernova discovery claims.
Chris Jones
- Discovery made easy - investigating the variable stars identified by
Mike Collins.
Albert Zijlstra
- Period evolution in Mira variables
Stephen Smartt - Discovering
nearby supernovae - helping support observations from the Hubble Space
Telescope
Peter Meikle
- The European Supernova Network
Peter Wheatley - Co-ordinated
X-ray and optical observations of dwarf novae
Andy Newsam
- The Liverpool Telescope
Paul Murdin
- The Faulkes Telescopes
John Toone
- Report of AAVSO/BAAVSS Meeting in Boston - USA
Karen Holland
- Bridging the gap - a ProAm project
Bill Worraker
- Eclipsing dwarf novae - where are they?
Discussion & close
This
was a fascinating meeting with something for every attendee. On the
instrumentation front the progress report on the fully automated 2m Cassegrain
telescopes at La Palma - Liverpool, Maui-Hawaii - Faulkes North
and Siding Springs-Australia - Faulkes South were particularly interesting
Maurice Gavin