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The first MACE 2002 ended!
PROCEEDINGS
When the idea if the "First European asteroid and comet observers meeting"
started, the situation seems dark. In the contrast with the astronomical potential, numerous observers, the interest to meet together was not sure.
The attendance of 62
participants from 12 European countries
and a guest from the Canada/USA region, was a nice surprise and great result! The meeting part was a really pleasure for many, to encounter the people known only from the e-mail communications before.
On the meeting, a variety of presentation, posters and many interesting talks, give new view on future projects, instruments modification, work on the S/N edge, professional and nonprofessional astronomer's cooperation.
The
general idea was that the time to change the quantity to quality just come, and that could be the way to "push" the cooperation between the European observatories.
The feeling was that the new
instruments/software/methods could really start to change the way the community worked. As few of the observatories have mainly educational character the exchange of students/pupils was also
discussed. Last but not least, as the encounter planed as meeting, give us a lot of time to spend together during
excursions, meals and degustations, and these "secondary" character was judged as very successful also. Wit that purposes an excursion to the old Pola observatory was held (making also a
short tour of the Pula City, visiting the most
famous monuments from the time of the Roman Empire – see the QuickTime movies panorama). Also the participants made a short excursions to the Lim Bay natural preserve
and some typical gastronomic sites located in the western part of the Istra peninsula. To push future cooperation, the next three MACE meeting are proposed to be held in:
MACE 2003 - Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
MACE 2004 - Frasso Sabino (Italy)
MACE 2005 – Vienna (Austria) Some images and QuickTime movie panoramas. Click to enlarge or start the
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