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METEOPTIC MESSAGE
This message tells about recent and forthcoming international
meetings arranged by both scientists and amateurs on meteorological
optics generally and on halos particularly. If you do
not find yourself as a social character in any sense of the word
please then just treat this information indulgently by simply
deleting the message.
- LIGHT AND COLOR IN THE OPEN AIR
Is the biggest and the most beautiful. A science topical meeting
of Optical Society of America held every 3-4 years on atm. optics
generally. A few days ago as travelling in USA I contacted the head of
the next conference Kenneth "Ken" Sassen at his home city Salt Lake
City, Utah. He said that the next Light and Color will probably be in
Utah on February or March 1997. Currently it is fixed on February, but
since there is some danger that many halo people would be during
February 1997 either in Antarctica or in Siberia (namely Tape,
Konnen, Greenler, Pekkola, Riikonen, Ruoskanen and Moilanen) chasing
rare halos, Sassen is trying to postpone the meeting till march 1997,
but he is fighting against OSA headquarters and might have to surrender.
2. AKM SPRING MEETING
The yearly meeting of German atm. optics network. Was held last march
in Kircheim Astronomical Observatory, Germany. I recall well that the
halo part of the gathering in question was colored e.g. by a hot debate
over the existance of the claimed 90 deg parhelion. The next meeting is
being planned for next April according to the latest AKM Mitteilungen
magazine. This one might turn out even more interesting.
3. INTERNATIONAL HALO MEETINGS IN FINLAND
Last june Robert G. Greenler visited Helsinki and Kustavi (Pekka
Parviainen s summer cottage is South-Western archipelago) in Finland.
In latter place a meeting was arranged to which some 20-25 Finns and 4
German activists came. The next international gettogether on Finnish
ground might be in summer 1998 or 1999 in small Eastern lake area
village called Rautalampi with the author of this message as host.
Walter Tape (USA) and Gunther P. Konnen (NL) expressed recently their
interest to partake such a meeting.
4. HALO MEETING IN ALASKA, FAIRBANKS.
I ve just returned from Alaska, Fairbanks where a 1,5 weeks long
informal meeting and work shop was held on halo phenomena. Our
host was Walter Tape and other participants Gunther P. Konnen, Marko
Riikonen and Jarmo Moilanen. The long slide sessions, discussions on
rare halos and diamond dust-crystal swarm chasings crisscross Fairbanks
were unforgettably interesting. We thank Walt Tape of the great
arrangements.
Regards, Marko
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