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on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 09:08 AM GMT - 3216 Reads
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The Osservatorio Astronomico Bellatrix (Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory) announces the organization of the 1st Virtual Meeting on Amateur Astronomy (CVAA = Convegno Virtuale di Astronomia Amatoriale). You are invited to participate.
The meeting has its home page at:
http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/cvaa_en.html
Below is the text of the 1st announce. I apologize for multiple emails. Please,
feel free to fwd to potential interested people.
INTRO. Thanks to the latest technologies, the meeting will use the internet
resources, that is a server (this one) hosting the presentations and a forum
(one for each presentation), where participants can post their questions, to be
answered by the authors. At the end of the meeting, the forum will be "frozen",
however remaining available on the web as a virtual book. The Meeting had the
patronage of the Unione Astrofili Italiani, the Italian amateur national
league.
Both professionals and amateurs worldwide can join the meeting.
The meeting will include both an International and an Italian Section. At first,
it was tought for the Italian community, with a formal deadline for paper
submission for Feb. 29th, 2004, and an opening day for the following March 15th.
Several foreign amateurs asked if it was possible to extend it and the
Organizing Committe decided to introduce an international area, english being
the official language accepted. As reported below, the international section
will have more convenient deadlines, as its organization started a bit later.
DATES The meeting will be formally opened on March 15th, 2004. However, the
international section will be opened on March 31st, 2004. The deadline for any
international contribution is: March 15th, 2004. This deadline applies also to
Italian amateurs wishing to present a contribution to the international area.
Both abstracts and full presentations can be sent to the Organizing Committe
(convegno@bellatrixobservatory.org) by now. On the opening day, the page
reporting all the links to the presentations will be made available. Those
sending just the abstract need to send the full work in time, accordingly with
the deadline above.
FIELDS OF INTEREST. Contributions related to any astronomical field of
interest for amateurs are welcomed. A possible list follows, but people
interested to submit their work in different areas are invited to contact the
Organizing Committe. So far, these are the possible topics:
- History of Astronomy
- Professionals and Amateurs joint projects
- Popularization of Astronomy
- Visual Observations (techiniques, particular observations, ...)
- Light Pollution
- CCD Astronomy
- Digital Astronomy (webcams, digicams, ...)
- Celestial Mechanics and Computation in Astronomy
- Observing Techniques (astrometry, photometry, spectroscopy,...)
- Data reduction
- Astrophotography
- Research Activities (Variable Stars, Asteroids, novae, supernovae, GRBs,
comets, sun, ...)
- Astronomical Software
- Astronomical Instruments
- Astronomical Observatories
- Associations.
CONTRIBUTIONS. Authors wishing to send their contributions to the
International area are asked to send their work to the Organizing Committe
(convegno@bellatrixobservatory.org) - within March 15th, 2004 - in html format
(with all the files needed); the page will be linked to the meeting index. An
abstract is welcomed if you plan to send later the full work: this will help
preparing the web structure. The following page can be seen as a template for
colors and fonts, but manipulating the layout as desired:
http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/article.html
Feel free to download and edit it to match your needs. Too complex pages will be
manipulated by the Organizing Committe, however with no warranty of
pubblications: please, be simpler as much as possible! Most popular word
processors can save in html format. In few cases, the Bellatrix Observatory can
provide some help; however, for obvious time reasons, this support is an
not-warranted *last* resource. Powerpoint and similar presentations can be sent
as a file to be linked to the html document, so that participants can download
them on their pc. Do NOT send powerpoint files without an html version of the
work: the latter is definitely necessary!
Manifacturers can send contributions, however avoiding advertising their own
products (that is, please avoid to send a work which simply is an advertisement:
an interesting application of a given product is accepted).
REGISTRATION. To register, both authors and participants need to submit
their application here:
http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/cvaa1registration.html
providing the requested data (name, surname and a valid email address are
mandatory). These data will be used to prepare a list of participants (without
publishing the email address). Participants will be included in a mailing list
announcing all the news related to the meeting.
The forum will require a separate registration, once the service will be made
available on the opening day. This to limit unwanted "noise".
Registration and participation are free of charge.
DISCLAIMER. The Observatory is absolutely not responsible for the contents
of the published contributions: the full responsability is of the authors.
The Organizing Commite convegno@bellatrixobservatory.org) is available for any questions.
Hoping that this meeting will be fruitful and enjoyable, I wish to you the very
best.
Gianluca Masi
Bellatrix Observatory
http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org
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