Announcements

The Local Organization Committee and the IMO Counsel invite you to participate in the 2008 edition of the International Meteor Conference (IMC), which will take place in Slovakia, in a beautiful setting, not far from the city of Banská Bystrica, from September 18 to 21.

Everyone who ever attended an IMC can testify that it is one of the highlights of the meteoric year! It is a unique opportunity to meet likeminded people from all over the world and to exchange experiences. In particular, you have the opportunity to present your own results or those of your observing group by giving a talk. In that case, you will see the paper of your presentation published in the proceedings that will be compiled after the event.

Participation in the 2008 IMC costs 150 EUR. This sum includes full board in the conference hotel, all sessions, the conference excursion, a 2008 IMC T-shirt, and the conference proceedings. Early registrants get a reduction of 10 EUR.

You can register by filling out the electronic registration form and paying the registration fee, or making a prepayment of at least 70 EUR. You can find more detailed information on the IMC 2008 website.

I hope to meet you in Šachtička!

The database of the IMO Video Meteor Network has been updated recently and now contains all observations until December 31, 2007. It is made of 328112 meteor records, collected in 2816 nights and 72582 hours of effective observing time. The PosDat data can be downloaded from the IMO website and from the IMO Video Network Homepage.

In March 1999, a video camera network was established by the German Arbeitskreis Meteore (AKM). By the end of 1999, it consisted of four cameras, and it has been growing ever since. In the next few years, not only observers from Germany joined the initiative, but also from other countries. Because of its international character, the network has been renamed to IMO Video Meteor Network in 2004.

We are very pleased to inform you that the next IMC will take place near Bansk Bystrica in Slovakia from 18th to 21st September 2008. The conference location, the Šachtička Hotel, is situated just 7 km from the town of Banská Bystrica.

The IMC 2008 will be the third International Meteor Conference in Slovakia. The conference center is located in a magnificent hotel in a green mountain area. The place is close to the geographical center of Europe, which we plan to visit.

The are many traveling possibilities to Banská Bystrica. The closest airport is in Bratislava. The Slovak capital can also easily be reached by train or bus. Road connections are good, too.

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is situated in the Public Observatory and Planetarium in Žiar nad Hronom. The LOC can be contacted via email on imc2008@imo.net.

We will provide you with more detailed information in the December issue of WGN and hope to see you in Slovakia next September.

From now on you can order all IMO publications through the webshop. With the webshop, it's a lot easier now to order IMO publications. A green and orange color code indicates whether there is still ample stock of a publication, or whether you have to hurry to get one of the last copies. After confirming your order, you will be directed to a page asking for your shipping information and choose your method of payment. You will get an email confirming your order and another one once the publication(s) are mailed to you.

We'd like to take the opportunity to point out that the Proceedings of the Radio Meteor School 2005 have been reprinted and are available again.

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