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IV Seminar of the Polish Fireball Network


By Anonymous - Posted on 03 July 2008

Next Friday "Fourth Seminar of the Polish Fireball Network" will begin in the Ostrowik Observatory near Warsaw. Invited participants will have an opportunity to hear lectures given by the PFN members and invited guests. We plan to talk mainly about new developments in the network but also about meteorites.

Special guest talk will be given by Igor Soszyński, member of the OGLE team.

Below you can see sketch of the Seminar talks and events. All talks are given in polish.






Friaday

~ 20:00 Evening meeting of the Seminar participants

Saturday

10:00 - official opening of the Seminar

10:00 - 12:00 (2:00) First session

  • RecoStar package - Mariusz Wiśniewski (1h)
  • Astrometry with fish-eye - Przemysław Żołądek (0.5h)
  • Hough - Mariusz Wiśniewski (5 min)

12:00 - 12:30 coffee, lots of coffee!

12:30 - 14:30 (2:00) Second session

  • Walk through IMOgena software - how to compute orbit? - Przemysław Żołądek
  • Meteoroid streams - how to prove that orbits keep tight together - Mariusz Wiśniewski (0.5h)
  • Lunar meteors - Kamil Zloczewski (0.5h)

14:30 - 16:30 lunch

16:30 - 19:00 (2:30) Third session/Workshop

  • Lecture about meteorites (1h)
  • Tunguska impact - Krzysztof Polakowski (0.5h)
  • Analysis of PFN's cameras FoV (Workshop) - Przemysław Żołądek (1h)

19:00 - dinner

20:30 - camp-fire

Sunday

10:00 - 12:00 (2:00) Fourth session

  • UFO package - Mariusz Wiśniewski (0.5h)
  • Automatic photographic station - Przemysław Żołądek (0.5h)
  • New equipment for video observations - Miroslaw Krasnowski (0.5h)
  • Variable stars catalogue in OGLE III - first results - Igor Soszyński (1h)

12:00 - End of the Seminar