VEGA 2024
International Spectroscopy Symposium for Professional and Amateur Astronomers May 30 - June 1, 2024
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.
2024 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 11 different countries.
May 30
Prof. Alex Carciofi - Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas - Brazil
The next frontier in Be star research: revealing the elusive mass loss mechanism by high-cadence spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Paul Beck - Universidad de La Laguna and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias - Spain
Tutorial: Basics of frequency analysis of photometric and spectroscopic time-series data for variable and binary stars Tutorial: Extraction of space photometry data from NASA Kepler and TESS
Prof. Dr. Anatoly Miroshnichenko - University of North Carolina/Greensboro - USA
Be Stars: Revealing the Structure of the Disc
Dr. David Boyd - British Astronomical Association - UK
Spectroscopy of the Deep Sky
May 31
Prof. Dr. Aaron Sigut - Department of Physics & Astronomy Institute for Earth & Space Exploration (IESX) University of Western Ontario - Canada
Spectral Secrets of the Be stars
Jack Martin - Huggins Spectroscopic Observatory - UK
A tour of The Huggins Spectroscopic Observatory
Dr. Igor Usenko - Astronomical Observatory of the Odessa National University - Ukraine
Prof. Dr. Anatoly Miroshnichenko - University of North Carolina/Greensboro - USA
A Spectroscopic History of The Polaris System
Gerardo Ávila - CAOS Team - Spain
Linking telescopes to spectrographs with optical fibres. Professional and amateur applications
June 1
Prof. Dr. Paul Beck - Universidad de La Laguna and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias - Spain
Tutorial: Extraction of space photometry data from NASA Kepler and TESS
Manfred Schwarz - Austria
Workshop - data reduction with SpectroCalc2
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