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Post by BillW on Apr 10, 2013 10:08:43 GMT
Hi all, This years IMC is being held in Poznan, Poland. It's a bit earlier that usual being the 22-25 August. I wonder if anyone is planning on attending? Note that the conference is open to non IMO members and whilst there is a lot of meteor stuff going on it is a VERY social occasion. Check out the website for details www.imo.net/imo/imccheers, Bill. |
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Post by stewartw on Apr 13, 2013 13:06:31 GMT
Hi Bill, I'd like to go but don't think I'll make it his year  Best regards William |
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Post by BillW on Apr 15, 2013 15:32:12 GMT
Hi,
I was impressed with the one in Armagh, very well organised and absolutely fascinating to see/hear about all the meteor observing that is going on!
Some of the locations have put me off in the past, they have been in gorgeous looking but out of the way places.
Couldn't make Sibiu myself but La Palma was fantastastic location.
This time it's very convenient as Ryan Air fly from Edinburgh direct to Poznan!
Looking forward to it immensely.
cheers,
Bill.
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Post by leolion on Apr 15, 2013 20:05:08 GMT
Hi Bill, Stewartw , You should enjoy Poland. Very active astronomically over there. I should be in Barcelona ( with a certain meteor/occultation mate from Leeds) for the IOTA/ESOP meeting at exactly the same time. I want to make an IMO meeting (and it looks like Vienna is a likely venue for next year). Perhaps we may see a Dutch/Belgium/German/France venue again before long?
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Post by BillW on Apr 16, 2013 9:23:24 GMT
Hi Len,
The Polish group seem to be well organised. I'm sure it'll be great.
I was speaking with one of the guys who will be organising the Vienna IMC (if that location is succesful) when we were on La Palma. Seems such a long time off but even that'll be here before we know it!
I've not been on the wx forum as I've had a real bug to sort on out on my home machine. Hopefully it will be sorted this week. Anyway now got three old refurbished PC's at home for my camera system. Everything should be up and running for this autumn. Can do three single cameras at full res or 6 at half size writing to different discs. After talking to Alex about this a while ago I did some tests and UFO capture seems perfectly happy running multiple starts on the same machine PROVIDED the fields don't overlap and you don't record the same meteor at the same time. That's when the problems with the time stamps seems to start. It's taken a few years to get here but it's coming together.
cheers,
Bill.
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Post by BillW on Jul 23, 2013 18:58:29 GMT
Hi,
Got an update about the IMC, looks like it'll be another great event.
Currently 105 attendees from 22 countries.
There's also going to be a radio observing workshop on the Friday night. I'll be going along to that.
cheers,
Bill.
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Post by BillW on Aug 27, 2013 12:58:30 GMT
Hi,
Just got back from the IMC. It was it's usual (rowdy) success with much late night singing, dancing and being in Poland, vodka.
Very busy schedule with a huge range of talks.
Now to try and recover before the next one. At ~2am on Sunday morning I was one of the first to go to bed, I'm getting too old for this ...!
Bill.
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Post by stewartw on Aug 27, 2013 15:18:17 GMT
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Post by BillW on Aug 27, 2013 16:12:56 GMT
Next years' will be held in Giron, France. It's a bit more out of the way and looks like a return to the more hostel/social get togethers of earlier years.
There is also the "professional" Meteroids conference ongoing in Poznan. I would have loved to go but money and time limitations put paid to that so I didn't register.
I had several hours to kill before my flight yesterday eveing so I walked into the city centre and had a look around.
I came across the University venue by accident on my way back so stuck my head in and had a chat with one of my spectroscopy friends for half an hour before leaving. It was an amazing looking building. A lot of the same faces but not so many in total though. I though there would have been more, students etc.
Bill.
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Post by stewartw on Aug 27, 2013 19:51:47 GMT
Hi Bill,
Thanks for the heads up about Giron - have dates been confirmed yet?
Best regards
William
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Post by BillW on Aug 28, 2013 11:05:04 GMT
No date but nominally the 3rd weekend in September.
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Post by stewartw on Aug 28, 2013 12:43:30 GMT
Thanks -will pencil this in
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