Thursday, August 21 |
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17:00-21:00 |
Registration desk open |
20:00 app. |
Topical dinner: IAU International Year of Astronomy Dark Sky Awareness Cornerstone (meeting point at the Kuffner-Observatory) |
Friday, August 22 |
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07:30 |
Registration desk opens |
09:00 - 09:20 | Opening session
Welcome and Opening (5 min) Awards (Friedel Pas) (15 min) |
09:20 - 10:40 | Andreas Hänel,
Fachgruppe Dark Sky: (20 min) 10 years of European Symposiums for the Protection of the Night Sky Andrej Mohar, Dark Sky Slovenia (20 min) Itai Kloog, Univ. Haifa (40 min) |
10:40 - 11:00 | Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Public lecture session
C. Aubrecht, ARC, C. D. Elvidge, NOAA (30 min) Wilfried Doppler, Umweltanwaltschaft Wien (20 min) Bob Mizon and Martin Morgan-Taylor, British Astronomical
Association Campaign for Dark Skies: (20 min) Thierry Midavaine, Association Francaise d'Astronomie: (20 min) |
12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch Break |
14:30 - 15:50 | Public lecture session
Martin Morgan-Taylor / Friedel Pas (20 min) Chris Baddiley, Scientific Advisor to the British Astronomical
Association Campaign for Dark Skies (20 min) Andreas Hänel, Fachgruppe Dark Sky: (20 min) Thomas Haberstroh, Schréder GmbH Österreich (Sponsor, 20
min) |
15:50 - 16:10 | Break |
16:10 - 17:30 | Workshops:
Jan Hollan, IDA Czechia: Connie Walker, NOAO/IAU, Günther Wuchterl TLS/VKS: |
17:30 - 17:50 | Break |
17:50 - 19:00 | Workshops: Jan Hollan, IDA Czechia: Connie Walker, NOAO/IAU, Günther Wuchterl TLS/VKS:The IAU international year of astronomy dark-sky-awareness cornerstone: Part II: Sky Quality Meter and Luxmeter networks |
19:00 - open | Poster Session with drinks and snacks and film presentation: Cities at Night |
20:00 | Susanne Lettner, Vienna
Public Lighting, municipal department 33 (20 min) MASTERPLAN LICHT FÜR WIEN - bringt das strategische Lichtkonzept auch ein MEHR an Sternenlicht? |
20:30 | Visit of the "good quality illumination park" |
21:00 | Guided tour through the Kuffner Observatory |
Saturday, August 23 |
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08:30 |
Registration desk opens |
09:00 - 10:20 |
Lecture session
István Gyarmathy, Hortobágy National Park: (20 min)
Henk Spoelstra, Platform Lichthinder: (20 min) Željko Andreic, Doroteja Andreic, Ana Bonaca, Korado
Korlevic, Petra Korlevic and Mirna Kramar, Višnjan Education
Center: (20 min) Jan Hollan, IDA Czechia: (20 min)
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10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
10:40 - 12:00 | Lecture session
Albert White, IDA Ireland: (20 min)
Connie Walker NOAO: (20 min) Günther Wuchterl: (20 min) A global survey of night sky brightness in the International Year of Astronomy 2009 Georg Zotti, WAA & Österreichischer Astronomischer Verein: (20 min) Sky brightness measurements with a digital camera: the effect of a small nearby village (Grossmugl) on night sky brightness. |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
14:00 - 15:20 | Lecture session
Andreas Hänel, Fachgruppe Dark Sky: (20 min) André Müller, MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg,
Günther Wuchterl, TLS: (20 min) Thomas Posch, Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna: (20
min)
Gerald Pfiffinger, Birdlife Austria (20min) |
15:20 - 15:40 | Break |
15:40 - 17:00 |
Closing session
Friedel Pas (30 min) Panel Discussion: The next steps (35 min) Renewal of the Declaration in Defence of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight (La Palma Declaration) (10 min) Albert White, IDA Ireland: Invitation to the Darksky 2009 in Ireland (5 min) |
17:30 tbc |
Bus ride to conference dinner and Großmugl excursion |
19:00 tbc | Conference Dinner |
21:00-23:00 | Großmugl at the Milky Way observations |
22:30 | Moonrise in the Pleiades! |
00:30-01:00 | Last bus departs to Vienna |
Sunday, August 24 |
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21:00 | optional guided tour through the Vienna University Observatory |
in preparation |
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optional guided mountain dark-sky tour to the Austrian Alps |