Program

A very preliminary program can be found here

Friday, 13 September 2019

16:00-18:30

Arrival and Registration

18:30

Dinner

21:00

End

 

 

 

Saturday, 14 September 2019

8:30

Registration

9:00

Session One (Chair: C. Knigge)

9:00-9:15

Franz-Josef (Josch) Hambsch: “Welcome“

9:15-10:00

Boris Gänsicke Evolved planetary systems  around white dwarfs

10:00-10:30

Tonny Vanmunster: Pro-am collaboration leads to the discovery of a Neptune exoplanet during the brightest planetary microlensing event

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Garry Walker: sCMOS Photometry two years in

11:30-12:00

Robin Mentel: Keeping an eye on Saturn's big cousins: amateur astronomy's essential contribution to the study of giant ring systems

12:00-12:30

Katerina Honkova: Importance of Czech Amateur Society of Observers of Variable Stars and Exoplanets

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Session Two (Chair: G. Walker)

13:30-14:15

Christian Knigge: Accreting White Dwarfs as Universal Accretion Laboratories

14:15:14:45

Jeremy Shears: Far northerly cataclysmic variables from the Hamburg Quasar Survey

14:45-15:15

Lienhard Pagel: Analysis of light curves - extraction of the essentials

15:15-15:45

Eric Broens: Multi-color light curve models of totally eclipsing W UMa stars with changing periods

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15

Session Three (Chair: A. Oksanen)

16:15-17:00

Stella Kafka: Recent developments at the AAVSO

17:00-17:30

Enrst Pollmann: VV Cep up to date - A spectroscopic potrait of the eclipse 2017-19

17:30-18:00

Patrck Wils: 10 years of HADS observations

18:00

Closure, day 1

18:30

Conference Dinner

22:00

End

 

 



Sunday, 15 September 2019

08:30

Registration

09:00

Session Four (Chair: S. Kafka)

9:00-9:45

Ulisse Munari: Symbiotic Stars and Recurrent Novae: getting ready for upcoming fireworks

9:45-10:15

Arto Oksanen: Observing the recurring nova M31N 2008-12a in the Andromeda galaxy

10:15-10:45

Dirk Froebrich: The HOYS-CAPS citizen science project

10:45-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15

Session Five (Chair: D. Froebrich)

11:15-12:00

Katrin Kolenberg: Classical pulsators and space mission data

12:00-12:30

Jean-Francois Leborgne: The GEOS database and survey

12:30-13:00

Pierre de Ponthierre: LesvePhotometry, the ultimate program

13:00

Lunch

14:30

End, day 2

 

 



Posters

P001

Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein: To Catch a Kilonova: Public Open Alerts for Gravitational Wave Events

P002

Laurent Corp: Areas of research for the amateurs on eclipsing binaries stars

P003

André Debackère: Observation of a set of 17 unusual eclipsing binary stars

P004

Arto Oksanen & Barbara Harris: Observing “Tabby’s star” KIC 8462852