VISNJAN, August, 2000

VSA 2000 - REPORT

World Laboratory
Project T-1 A/I

 .. in progress ....

OVERVIEW:
  VSA, or Visnjan School of Astronomy, is a joint Visnjan Observatory,   World Laboratory , and Croatian Ministry of Education summer workshop of astronomy.  The observatory is located in the western part of the Istrian highlands, near the city of Porec, Croatia . VSA is the result of many years of work by its organizers,  founders and sponsors.

The work was organized through group activities and a joint daily lecture. To see the group achievements use the links below or read the final VSA2000 proceedings.

METEORS, delta Aquarids observations, training of the group for the Leonid_2000 observations.

NEO, VONEOF - Visnjan Observatory Near Earth Objects Followup 

COMETS,  Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)  - Death of the comet ..... added to the NEO group

SUPERNOVAE, Supernova star search and photometry

VARIABLE STARS,   Milky way variable stars search

GEOPHYSICS,  Constructing and running a "Geophysical station",  magnetometer

VSA 2000 PROGRAM

Day by day followup of the groups activities can be found here:
news.astro.hr/vsa2000
 

More images.....

Lectures:

Marina Rejkuba (ESO) - Dwarf and Giant Tale

Giovanni Sostero (Remanzacco Observatory) - TT Arietis - Global telescope observations

Dejan Vinkovic (University of Kentucky) - Protostars and protoplanets

Renato Falomo (Asiago Observatory / University of Padua) - The giant telescopes of the future.

Steno Ferluga (University of Triest) - The astronomical archives.
 


Mosaic  of the Andromeda galaxy:
normal size picture 1200x990  - 198 KB

 HUGE SIZE picture !!!!  3600x3000!  - 1006 KB

 

Excursion to the Pula (Pola) Observatory

We are proud that in the relatively discriminative environment for the feminine population in Croatia, our workshop, for the second consecutive year, was a place where the equality of opportunities works !
   If we analyze the diagram below, the fluctuation and a gradual disappearing of girl students during the war period, and a complete absence in 1998 is visible.  These moments triggered an alarm, and during the year 1999, through a kind of  "affirmative action", a special care was dedicated to the problem. The result is optimistic now,  as far as VSA is concerned  ( the situation in general changed minimally :o(.


Other images of the sky.
 

The groups exchange of news

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