[AZ-Observing] Re: RTMC this Year
- From: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:30:34 -0700
I forgot to mention that on the day before the start of the conference,
SAS hosted two workshops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
The morning one was on considerations for developing a remote and
automated robotic observatory by Tom Smith and Tom Krajci. The afternoon
one was on using Phoebe to analyze binary star light curves by Dirk
Terrell. I attended both and both were interesting.
Stan
On 6/1/2011 8:20 AM, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> I don't have much to report on SAS. I could write about what was
> presented, but that would take work since I cannot rely on my memory.
> You are a member of SAS and so you should be receiving your own copy of
> the Proceedings. The conference was held during the same time as the
> AAVSO meeting and so some joint members, such as Arne Henden, were not
> present, but there were still 100+ attendees, I think 102. There were
> interesting talks, as usual. The after banquet speaker was Peter
> Jenniskens. I myself doubt the meteorites he found in the Sudan came
> from the shower that was observed, but it was an entertaining talk. I
> guess as a sign of the economy (and maybe gas prices), Software Bisque
> was not present. Usually they have a table set up and host an evening
> social in one of the rooms. Olivier Thizy, from France and the President
> of Shelyak, was outside in the evenings to talk about or help with
> spectrometers of theirs anyone owns, but there was not much activity.
> There were also not many poster papers. So, maybe it could be argued
> that like RTMC the meeting was a little more low key than usual.
> Stan
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