Programme
Speakers
| Dr Rob Adam, MD SARAO | Prof Katherine Blundell, OBE, Oxford | |
| Dr Sarah Blyth, UCT | Tim Cooper, ASSA | |
| Douglas Bullis, ASSA | Dr N Erasmus | |
| Jose da Silva, ASSA | Percy Jacobs, ASSA | |
| Clyde Foster, ASSA | Dr Christopher Kyba, German Research Center for Geosciences (@skyglowberlin) | |
| Dr Stella Kafka, Director AAVSO | Berto Monard, ASSA | |
| Dr Vanessa McBride, IAU-OAD (@AstronoVee) | Case Rijsdijk, ASSA | |
| Johan Moolman, ASSA | Magda Streicher, ASSA | |
| Maciej Soltynski, ASSA | Auke Slotegraaf, Centre for Astronomical Heritage (@auke_s) | |
| Dr Mattia Vaccari | Andre van Staden, ASSA | |
| Allen Versfeld, ASSA |
Friday, 9 March 2018
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Registration/tea |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Session 1 (Chair: C. Rijsdijk) |
| 11:00 – 11:15 Welcome – Case Rijsdijk 11:15 – 11:30 Official Opening – Prof Patricia Whitelock (SAAO/UCT) 11:30 – 12:30 Opening Address by Dr Rob Adam, Managing Director, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Session 2 (Chair: I. S. Glass) |
| 13:30 – 14:00 Spectroscopy in the Rainbow Nation: a case study of SS433 – Prof Katherine Blundell 14:00 – 14:30 Monitoring Be X-ray binaries – Dr Vanessa McBride 14:30 – 15:00 Monitoring Red-back ms Pulsars – Andre van Staden |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Tea |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Session 3 (Chair: T. P. Cooper) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 The AAVSO for your research in the large surveys era – Dr Stella Kafka 16:00 – 16:30 The radio galaxy zoo – Mattia Vaccari 16:30 – 17:00 Exoplanets – Jose da Silva 17:00 – 17:30 Finding SNe – Berto Monard |
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| 19:00 | Symposium Dinner – Buffet in the SAAO Auditorium |
Saturday, 10 March
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 4 (Chair: P de Villiers) |
| 09:00 – 09:30 The SAAO’s Asteroid Programme – Dr N Erasmus 09:30 – 10:00 Meteors, Bolides and Comets – Tim Cooper 10:00 – 10:30 Light pollution – Dr Chris Kyba |
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| 10:30 –11:00 | Tea |
| 11:00 –12:30 | Session 5 (Chair: C Rijsdijk) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 LADUMA survey/Education – Dr Sarah Blyth 11:30 – 12:00 Citizen Science in the Archives – Auke Slotegraaf 12:00 – 12:30 Engaging the Amateurs – Prof Katherine Blundell |
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| 12:30 –13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 –15:00 | Session 6 (Chair: Jose da Silva) |
| 13:30 – 13:45 Sketching at the eyepiece – Magda Streicher 13:45 – 14:10 Modern Media as an Outreach Tool – Allen Versfeld 14:10 – 14:35 Spectroscopy – Percy Jacobs 14:35 – 15:00 The Cosmic Web – Maciej Soltynski |
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| 15:00 –15:30 | Tea |
| 15:30 –17:00 | Session 7 |
| 15:30 – 17:00 Dr Stella Kafka will present a workshop on “Citizen Science and Citizen Astronomy”. The intention is to get the non-professional community more actively involved in this. | |
| Group photograph | |
| t.b.d. | Visit to the Iziko Planetarium |
Sunday 11 March
| 08:30 – 10:30 | Session 8 (Chair: E Nijeboer) |
| 08:30 – 09:00 Stacking and resolution – Clyde Foster 09:00 – 09:30 Astrophotography Adventure – Johann Moolman 09:30 – 10:00 Emission Streaming from the LMC into Cha and TrA – Doug Bullis 10:00 – 10:30 Dr Daniel Cunnama – Celebrating 200 years of the Cape Town Observatory |
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| 10:30 –11:00 | Tea |
| 11:00 –12:00 | Session 9 (Chair: Auke Slotegraaf) |
| 11:00 – 12:00 Dr Chris Kyba will present a workshop on light pollution, discussing tools related to understanding light pollution, measurement techniques, strategies for light pollution measurement campaigns, and strategies for minimizing the growth of light pollution. | |
| 12:00 –12:15 | Closing (Case Rijsdijk) |