Tähtitieteellinen yhdistys Ursa

EuroVS 2013 - Program

Presentations are available as PDF files. Videos (audio remastered 2018) are in YouTube [playlist].

10 - 11 AM
- Registration
11 AM
- Introductions of the participants
11:30 AM
- Veikko Mäkelä: "Short history on the variable star observing in Finland" [presentation] [video]
  The history of amateur variable star observing started in the late 1960s. As a part of Scandinavian co-operation it continued till the beginning 1990s. After many quiet year, the activies started again in the first decade of the new millenium as a interest group.
12 AM
- Jyri Lehtinen: "Period search from light curves with changing shapes" [presentation] [video]
13–14 PM
- Lunch break
14 PM
- Seppo Katajainen: "Observing Variable Stars Using Large Telescopes" [presentration, 13 MB] [video]
15 PM
- Guided tour in the Observatory museum
16 PM
- Arne Henden (via Internet): "Late-time Observations of Novae" [presentation, 4,7 MB]
  The 61cm telescopes of the AAVSO's robotic telescope network have been used to obtain multi-wavelength photometry of many recent novae. Few novae have been previously followed more than 100 days after outburst. We are systematically imaging all novae from the past decade. This presentation is an interim report, giving results for the most recent novae.
18.30 - 22 PM
- Dinner in Suomenlinna Brewery Restaurant on Suomenlinna Fortress Island,

12 AM
- Arto Oksanen: "Recurrenct Nova T Pyxidis" [presentation, 6,6 MB] [video]
13 PM
- Nick Atkinson: "The British Astronomical Association Data Base" (by Roger Pickard) [presentation] [video]
14–15 PM
- Lunch break
15 PM
- Josch Hambsch: "RR Lyr Observations and Analysis" [presentation, 6 MB] [video]
16 PM
- Mike Simonsen (via Internet): "Results from the Z CamPaign" [presentation, 7,5 MB]

Coffee, tee and snacks between presentations. Lunch breaks (self paid) in the restaurants nearby by everyones own choose.