Equipment and presentations
For oral presentations a digital projector will be provided. The participants are kindly requested to upload their presentation(s) during the registration or coffee breaks. The conference laptop will be used for all presentations. Preferred presentation format is .pdf or Open Office 3.3.0.
Speakers should remember that time given for their
oral presentations includes also 5 min. for discussion.
Programme
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Arrival of the participants, hotel accommodation
9:00 – 17:00 – possibility of visiting International Power Industry Fair ENERGETAB 2012 – the biggest in central Europe fair of energetic and lighting (www.energetab.eu)
Friday, September 14, 2012
(media day)
8:00 – 9:00 registration
9:00 – 10:40 opening session
9:00 – 9:15 Opening addresses9:15 – 9:30 Julia Romanowska: Dark sky protection area CN-001 in Sopotnia Wielka 9:30 – 9:45 Sylwester Kołomański: Izera Dark-Sky Park
9:45 – 10:00 Piotr Michałek: Light Pollution
10:00 – 10:15 Grzegorz Sanetra: Local strategy of development and dark sky 10:15 – 10:40 Witold Magryś: Financing dark sky by EU
10:40 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:35 1st session
11:00 – 11:25 Abdulrahim Hakami: Light Pollution in Saudi Arabia
11:25 – 11:50 Paul Marchant: Estimating the effect of new street lightning on the occurrence of different types of crime
11:50 – 12:10 Andrej Mohar: Lighting Reconstruction in Lastovo Island
12:45 – 13:45 Light pollution broad spectrum – a lecture and press conference for
media and local authorities
lecture will be given by Friedel Pas – IDA European Liaison Officer
12:35 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 – 15:30 2nd session
14:00 – 14:25 Andrea Giacomelli: Participatory night sky monitoring in Italy: progress since the Osnabrück symposium and outlook for 2013
14:25 – 14:50 Marty Haaima: Results from the Dutch Night Sky Brightness Monitoring Network
14:50 – 15:10 Andreas Haenel: 6.5 years of sky brightness measurements – experiences and conclusions
15:10 – 15:30 Kai Pong Tong: Results of international SQM survey campaign 2011 and the implication to possible ecological impact
15:30 – 15:50 coffee break
15:50 – 18:10 3rd session
15:50 – 16:20 Pavol Ďuriš: Eastern Carpathian (Poloniny and Bieszczady) Dark-Sky Parks 16:20 – 16:40 Jan Kondziolka: Beskydy Dark-Sky Park
16:40 – 17:10 Andreas Haenel: Star Parks in Germany – towards a sustainable protection of the night 17:10 – 17:40 Günther Wuchterl: Alpine Starlight, Starlight Oasis, Reserves and World Heritage 17:40 – 18:10 Jakub Suchecki: Boyen6 system in Sopotnia Wielka
Bielsko-Biala.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
9:00 – 9:55 4th session
9:00 – 9:15 Nobuaki Ochi: Dark-sky education and the public’s trend in Japan 9:15 – 9:35 Grzegorz Żakowicz: School Workshops on Astronomy
9:35 – 9:55 Tomasz Mrozek: Kordylewski clouds: the observational objects for the most ambitious
9:55 – 10:15 coffee break
10:15 – 11:50 5th session
10:15 – 10:45 Tomasz Ściężor: Long terms changes in the level of the artificial sky glow as the form of the light pollution
10:45 – 11:10 Jan Hollan: Measuring both strong and faint light and understanding the quantities
11:10 – 11:30 Christopher Kyba: Aerial measurement of the upward angular distribution of emitted artificial light over Berlin, Germany at 10,000 ft
11:30 – 11:50 Günther Wuchterl: Origin and energy content of city light domes from Lightmeter measurements
11:50 – 13:30 lunch
13:30 – 13:45 Christopher Kyba: Official adoption of a standard format for measurements of sky glow 13:45 – 15:00 Measuring darkness - discussion/workshop on metrology conducted by Günther Wuchterl
15:00 – 15:20 coffee break
15:20 – 18:00 7th session
15:20 – 15:40 Jan Hollan: Let’s stand up and say: light at night is a pollutant 15:40 – 16:05 Bob Parks: The future of night sky protection
16:05 – 17:00 Towards darker future – general discussion on plans and future actions 17:00 – 17:20 Fernando Jauregui: Presentation of the venue of the next symposium
17:20 – 18:00 Friedel Pass: Summary of the symposium (IDA Europe Update and award ceremony)
18:00 – 20:00 free time
20:00 – 22:00 social event
cable gondola railway trip to the Szyndzielnia hill in Bielsko-Bialacancelled
Official ending of the conference – banquet in restaurant in Bielsko-Biala (15 minutes walk from the symposium venue).
Optional trip to CN-003 area – Izera Dark-Sky Park (www.izera-darksky.eu). The park is about 380 km from Bielsko-Biała. Participants interested in the trip should contact organizers of the symposium via e-mail as soon as possible.
