VEGA 2022
International Spectroscopy Symposium for Professional and Amateur Astronomers May 26 - May 28, 2022
A very successful conference with interesting lectures and discussions.
This conference takes place in a unique facility in Europe, the Vega Observatory in Haunsberg near Salzburg / Austria.
2022 was the second time this symposium took place, and it was a great success. Lectures by a large number of professional and amateur astronomers gave a deep insight into current research in astrophysics and spectroscopy, as well as ongoing and future ProAm collaborations.
The conference language was in English. There were participants from 10 different countries.
May 26
Paul Beck - University of Graz - Austria
Proxy of chromospheric activity from the Ca H&K doublet in cool stars – The Mount Wilson S-Index
Jack Martin - British Astronomical Association - UK
Red Dwarf Flare Stars
Kerstin Weis - Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Germany
High resolution spectroscopy to uncover the true nature of Luminous Blue Variable and Wolf-Rayet Nebulae
Dominik Bomans - Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Germany
Spectroscopy of emission line galaxies: astrophysical parameters derived from observations at different spectral resolutions
May 27
Anatoly Miroshnichenko - University of North Carolina/Greensboro - USA
Observing Binary Systems with Hot Stars and Deriving their Properties
Yael Naze - Research Associate FNRS, Groupe d'Astrophysique des Hautes Energies - Belgium
Monitoring gamma-Cas stars, a key to finding their nature?
Jaroslav Merc - Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague - Czech Republic / P. J. Šafárik University, Košice - Slovak Republic
Symbiotic binaries: Results of the ongoing pro-am collaboration
Ernst Pollmann - Germany
Spectroscopic Portrait of the VV Cephei Eclipse 2017-19
Günter Gebhard - Germany
Fast changing Line Profile of H-alpha in Alpha Camelopardalis
May 28
Kevin Gurney - British Astronomical Association - UK
Using high resolution spectroscopy to measure Cepheid pulsation
Gerald Handler - Nicolaus Copernicus Center Warsaw - Poland
The enigmatic tidally tilted pulsators - new insights into stellar astrophysics
Paul Beck - University of Graz - Austria
Download of TESS data
More information on request: vega@astrophoto.at
Augustin Skopal - Astronomical Institute Slovak Academy of Sciences – Slovak Republic
Exploring outbursts of accreting white dwarfs using amateur spectroscopy
Manfred Schwarz - Austria
Data reduction with SpectroCalc 2
Sideshows
Hotel Ammerhauser
Excellent service and pleasant ambience.
Lunch in the restaurant Kaiserbuche
Good food and wonderful views of the surrounding mountains.
Vega Observatory
The 1m ASA EQ 1000 RC F7 equatorial telescope