- 32nd meeting
- IMC 2013 Website
- Local organizers: Polish Comets and Meteors Workshop (CMW/PKiM).
- 127 participants from 25 countries: Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (9), Canada (4), Croatia (11), Czech Republic (4), France (5), Germany (12), Greece (1), Israel (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (7), Poland (13), Romania (7), Russia (6), Serbia (2), Slovakia (9), Slovenia (9), Spain (4), Sweden (1), Turkey (2), U.K.(8), Ukraine (1) and U.S.A. (5).
- 70 presentations (47 lectures, 23 posters).
- IMC 2013 Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-87355-025-7): 222 pages (eds. Marc Gyssens, Paul Roggemans, Przemysław Żołądek).
- IMC-Report in WGN: October 2013 (41:5) (PDF)
- IMC 2013 Program
- IMC 2013 Participants list
- IMC T-shirt: yes
- IMC 2013 logo: yes (see IMC 2013 Website)
- Participation fee 150 Euro.
Acknowledgement: We thank Axel Haas, Bernd Klemt, Dominique Richard, Adriana Roggemans and Irmgard Schmidt for the photographs of this 2013 IMC.
A selection was made from many hundreds of available photographs to give a good coverage of this IMC.
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland a beautiful city to visit. Here the city hall. (credit Dominique Richard).
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland a beautiful city to visit. (credit Dominique Richard).
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland just before the conference ‘Meteoroids 2013’. (credit Adriana Roggemans).
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland. The old center market. (credit Dominique Richard).
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland. Inside the baroque St Stanislaus church. (credit Dominique Richard).
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland. One of the university buildings. (credit Dominique Richard).
The 32nd IMC was hosted in Poznań, Poland. (credit Dominique Richard).
Often participants meet each other on the way to the IMC, here Zeljko Andreic, Ivana Barišić and Lovro Pavletic. (credit Bernd Klemt).
The 2013 IMC host, IOR Hotel in Poznań. (credit Axel Haas).
The 2013 IMC banner at the IOR Hotel with Mike Hankley. (credit Axel Haas).
The 2013 IMC registration desk with some of the LOC members. From left to right: Karol Fietkiewicz, Mariusz Wiśniewski, Weronica Piechota, Ania Krasnowska and Krzysztof Polakowski. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Hans-Georg Schmidt, Juan Carlos Aznar López, Susana Toval Requena, Placido Toval Requena and Galina Ryabova. (credit Irmgard Schmidt).
The 2013 IMC registration desk with IMO Treasurer Marc Gyssens, IMO IMC liaison officer Paul Roggemans and Damir Segon. (credit Bernd Klemt).
The Slovenian group arriving: from left to right: Klemen Čotar, Janez Kos (half hidden), Javor Kac, Matic Smrekar, Nina Smrekar, Mitja Govedič, Maruška Mole and Jure Atanackov. (credit Axel Haas).
Thursday afternoon the participants arrived. Behind the registration desk we see from left to right: Krzysztof Polakowski, Karol Fietkiewicz, Weronica Piechota, Ania Krasnowska, Marc Gyssens, Paul and Adriana Roggemans. In front of the desk: Yevgen Kozyryev (back), Przemysław Żołądek, Johan Kero, Casper ter Kuile, Alex Tudorica (hidden), David Asher (back) and Peter Brown (credit Bernd Klemt).
The audiance ready for the opening speeches. On the first row from left we recognize Lovro Pavletic, Damir Šegon and Pete Gural. On the second row Ferhat Özeren, Kerem Çubuk and Chris Peterson. On the third row: Tom Roelandts, Nastassia Smeets, Luc Bastiaens, Peter Steward, Bill Ward and Nagatoshi Nogami. (credit Axel Haas).
The audiance ready for the opening speeches. On the first row from left we recognize Przemysław Żołądek and Krzysztof Polakowski. On the second row Paul Roggemans, Adriana Roggemans, Bernard Kieffer, Jean-Louis Rault, André Knöfel and Berndt Klemt. On the third row Galina Ryabova, Christian Steyaert, Marc Neijts, Frans Lowiessen, Detlef Koschny, Joe Zender, Ulrich Sperberg (hidden) and Kerem Çubuk. On the fourth row Grigoris Maravelias, Cis Verbeeck and Urska Pajer. (credit Dominique Richard).
The welcome words and announcements of the IMC organizers by Przemysław Żołądek. (credit Bernd Klemt).
The official opening of the 32nd IMC by Jürgen Rendtel. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Some practical announcements by Paul Roggemans. (credit Dominique Richard).
Some practical announcements by Marc Gyssens. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Waiting for the welcome drink. From left to right Pavel Koten, Shinsuke Abe, Abderrahmane Ibhi (looking away), Denis Vida, Filip Novoselnik, Ivica Skokić, Kerem Çubuk (front), Alen Žižak, Pavel Spurný (back), Jiří Borovička, Lovro Pavletic (back), Damir Šegon, Ivana Barišić, Mihail Robescu, ??, Casper ter Kuile, Peter steward, Adriana Roggemans (back), Nagatoshi Nogami (back), Johan Kero, Bill Ward (back), Alex Tudorica (looking away), Maria Hajdukova, Pavel Zigo and Galina Ryabova. (credit Bernd Klemt).
The welcome drink before the dinner. (credit Dominique Richard).
The welcome drink with Jean-Louis Rault, Vincent Perlerin, Mike Hankey and Bernard Kieffer. (credit Dominique Richard).
Thursday evening dinner: Irmgard Schmidt, Miruna Popescu, Hans-Georg Schmidt and David Asher. (credit Axel Haas).
Axel Haas, Irmgard Schmidt, Hans-Georg Schmidt, André Knöfel and Ulrich Sperberg. (credit Bernd Klemt).
First night socializing: Johan Kero, Robert Wyrek and Detlef Koschny. (credit Bernd Klemt).
First night socializing: Dominique Richard, Abderrahmane Ibhi, Bernard Kieffer and Jean-Louis Rault. (credit Bernd Klemt).
First night socializing: Miruna Popescu and Irmgard Schmidt. (credit Axel Haas).
The lecture room. On the first row Chris Peterson, second row Dominique Richard, Bernard Kieffer, Alen Žižak, Ivica Skokić, Denis Vida, Filip Novoselnik, Pete Gural, Zeljko Andreic. Standing André Knöfel and Detlef Koschny. On the third row: Kerem Çubuk, Ferhat Özeren and Chris Steyaert. On the third row: Jos Nijland, Alex Tudorica, Casper ter Kuile, Arnold Tukkers, Joe Zender, Marc Neijts and Lorenzo Morillas Sánchez. Fourth row: Wojciech Stankowski. Standing: Axel Haas, Irmgard and Hans-Georg Schmidt, Jürgen Rendtel and Geert Barentsen. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Geert Barentsen explaining the famous IMC clock from the Armagh IMC to the first session chairman, Cis Verbeeck. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pete Gural with the keynote lecture ‘Development of the Spectral CAMS System’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pete Gural with the keynote lecture ‘Development of the Spectral CAMS System’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pete Gural with the keynote lecture ‘Development of the Spectral CAMS System’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pete Gural with the keynote lecture ‘Development of the Spectral CAMS System’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Chris Peterson: ‘A New Sofware Application for Allsky Camera Networks’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jeremie Vaubaillon: ‘Update on the IMCCE meteor activities’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Leonard Kornos: ‘EDMOND meteor database’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Leonard Kornos: ‘EDMOND meteor database’, video camera’s accross Europe. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Sirko Molau: ‘Meteor showers identified from a million video meteors’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Sirko Molau: ‘Meteor showers identified from a million video meteors’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Friday morning coffee break with from left to right Frans Lowiesen, Mike Hankey, Tom Roelandts, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Luc Bastiaens, Jürgen Rendtel, Alex Tudorica, Pavel Zigo, Tudor Georgescu, Detlef Koschny, Ana Georgescu, Joe Zender, Alexander Bagrov, Pavel Spurny, Pavel Koten, Dominique Richard, Geert Barentsen, Nagatoshi Nogami, Johan Kero, Casper ter Kuile, Aswin Sehkar, Grigoris Maravelias talking to Sirko Molau, Maria Hajdukova, Adriana Roggemans, Roman Piffl, Peter Steward, Jakub Koukal, Paul Sutherland and Enrico Stomeo. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Friday morning coffee break. From left to right: Cis Verbeeck, Shinsuke Abe, David Asher, Elisabeth Silber and Alex Tudorica. (credit Axel Haas).
Friday morning coffee break. From left to right: Francisco Ocaña talking to Maruška Mole, Lorenzo Morillas Sánchez talking to Pilar Garcia Vega, Chris Steyaert talking to Geert Barentsen, Zeljko Andreic talking to Javor Kac. (credit Axel Haas).
Friday morning coffee break. From left to right: Nagatoshi talking to Casper ter Kuile and Bill Ward talking to Paul Sutherland. (credit Axel Haas).
Jean-Louis Rault takes over from Cis Verbeeck as session chairman. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Peter Brown: ‘CAMO – The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory’. (credit Axel Haas).
Peter Brown: ‘CAMO – The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Peter Brown: ‘CAMO – The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory’. (credit Axel Haas).
Peter Brown: ‘CAMO – The Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Ana Georgescu: ‘The Romanian All Sky Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Ana Georgescu: ‘The Romanian All Sky Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Ana Georgescu: ‘The Romanian All Sky Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Tudor Georgescu: ‘The Romanian All Sky Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Richard Kacerek: ‘1 year of United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network’. (credit Dominique Richard).
Richard Kacerek: ‘1 year of United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Richard Kacerek: ‘1 year of United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Francisco Ocaña: ‘Performance of Watec 910 HX camera for meteor observation’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Francisco Ocaña: ‘Performance of Watec 910 HX camera for meteor observation’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Yevgen Kozyryev: ‘Video meteors observations in Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory – developed software and results’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Yevgen Kozyryev: ‘Video meteors observations in Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory – developed software and results’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Chris Peterson: ‘Update on the Colorado Allsky Camera Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Chris Peterson: ‘Update on the Colorado Allsky Camera Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Friday Lunch time: Sirko Molau, Marc Gyssens, Chris Peterson, Jean-Louis Rault. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Friday Lunch time: Marc Gyssens making some announcements. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Friday Lunch time: From left to right we see Chris Steyaert, Pavel Zigo, Jiří Borovička, Pavel Spurny (hidden), Pavel Koten (back), Frans Lowiessen, Shinsuke abe (back), Tom Roelandts, Nikola Bozic (standing), Casper ter Kuile talking to Galina Ryabova. (credit Axel Haas).
Friday Lunch time: From left to right we see Ferhat Özeren (hidden), Sirko Molau, Mike Hankey, Vincent Perlerin and Peter Brown. (credit Axel Haas).
Friday Lunch time: From left to right we see Nagatoshi Nogami, Pete Gural (back), Aswin Sekhar, Janez Kos and Jérémie Vaubaillon. (credit Axel Haas).
Peter Jenniskens: ‘Results from the CAMS meteoroid orbit survey’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Peter Jenniskens: ‘Results from the CAMS meteoroid orbit survey’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jérémie Vaubaillon (François Colas): ‘FRIPON – the French fireball Network’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pavel Koten: ‘MAIA – new video system for automatic meteor observations’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pavel Koten: ‘MAIA – new video system for automatic meteor observations’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Cis Verbeeck with the keynote lecture: ‘Introduction to radio meteor astronomy’. (credit Bernd Klemt).
The LOC providing assistence: Przemysław Żołądek, Jean-Louis Rault, Mariusz Wiśniewski and Jürgen Rendtel. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jean-Louis Rault: ‘Radio meteor news’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jean-Louis Rault: ‘Radio meteor news’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Chris Steyaert: ‘The global radio eta Aquariids 2013’ (credit Adriana Roggemans).
Chris Steyaert: ‘The global radio eta Aquariids 2013’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Coffee break Friday afternoon from left to right André Knöfel, Damir Segon talking with Pavel Spurny, Alexander Bagrov (in the background), Robert Wyrek, Elisabeth Silber and Mirjana Malaric talking to Zeljko Andreic (credit Bernd Klemt).
Coffee break Friday afternoon Cis Verbeeck talking to Frans Lowiessen (credit Bernd Klemt).
Coffee break Friday afternoon Jürgen Rendtel talking to Peter Jenniskens, Maciej Maciejewski talking to Maciej Myszkiewicz. (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Friday afternoon Jakub Koukal, Leonard Kornos, Maria Hajdukova and Pavel Zigo. (credit Axel Haas).
Giancarlo Tomezzoli: ‘Progress on Radioastronomy in Munich, Germany’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Yevgen Kozyryev: ‘Radio meteor observations in Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory – developed software and results’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Johan Kero: ‘The relation of meteor head echo mass-velocity selection effects, shower mass distribution indices, and the mass threshold of the MU radar’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Johan Kero: ‘The relation of meteor head echo mass-velocity selection effects, shower mass distribution indices, and the mass threshold of the MU radar’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Johan Kero: ‘The relation of meteor head echo mass-velocity selection effects, shower mass distribution indices, and the mass threshold of the MU radar’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Robert Weryk: ‘The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) : System Overview and Recent Work’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Robert Weryk: ‘The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) : System Overview and Recent Work’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Alexander Bagrov: ‘Correct brightness estimations of optical meteors’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Alexander Bagrov: ‘Correct brightness estimations of optical meteors’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Zeljko Andreic: ‘The interesting case of iota Cygnids (525 ICY)’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Maria Hajdukova: ‘Observed and real orbital dispersion within meteor streams’ (credit Dominique Richard).
From left to right we see Aswin Sekhar, Robert Weryk, Geert Barentsen, Nina Smrekar, Leonard Kornos, Maria Hajdukova, Javor Kac, Nina Murtazova, Andrey Murtazov, Jakub Koukal, Ana Žegarac, Richard Kacerek, Nagatoshi Nogami, Matej Korec, Mirjana Malaric, Matic Smrekar, Giancarlo Tomezzoli, Maruška Mole, Bill Ward, Arnold Tukkers, Jos Nijland and Mitja Govedič. (credit Axel Haas).
From left to right we see Giancarlo Tomezzoli, Maruška Mole, Bill Ward, Arnold Tukkers, Jos Nijland, Mitja Govedič, Klemen Čotar, Netzer Moriya, Shinsuke Abe, Ayyub Guliyev, Krzysztof Polakowski, Jiří Borovička, Grigoris Maravelias, Tom Roelandts and Ivica Skokić. (credit Axel Haas).
Presentation of the authors of the posters. From left to right: Abderrahmane Ibhi, Stijn Calders, Sirko Molau and Joe Zender (credit Bernd Klemt).
At left we see Zeljko Andreic and Peter Jenniskens during the presentation of the authors of the posters. From left to right: Stijn Calders, Sirko Molau, Joe Zender, Damir Šegon, Pete Gural, session chairman David Asher and Abderrahmane Ibhi. (credit Axel Haas).
Presentation of the authors of the posters. From left to right: Paul Roggemans, Detlef Koschny (waving), Jure Atakanov, Alex Tudorica, Francisco Ocaña and Jérémie Vaubaillon. (credit Dominique Richard).
Presentation of the authors of the posters. From left to right: Ireneusz Wlodarczyk, Pavel Zigo, Roman Piffl, Stanislav Kaniansky, Anna Kartashova and Alexander Bagrov. (credit Axel Haas).
During the poster session Detlef Koschny and Irmgard Schmidt with in the background Grigoris Maravelias, Francisco Ocaña and Matic Smrekar (credit Bernd Klemt).
During the poster session: IMC photographers at work, Nastassia Smeets and Javor Kac. (credit Axel Haas).
Two impressive posters about meteorite research in Morocco by Abderrahmane Ibhi (credit Bernd Klemt).
From left to right Luc Bastiaens, Zbigniew Tymiński, Nagatoshi Nogami (background), Bernhard Kieffer, Abderrahmane Ibhi, Urska Pajer and Dominique Richard (credit Dominique Richard).
During the poster session: several meteorite samples were exposed. From left to right: Filip Novoselnik, Denis Vida, Alen Žižak, Ivica Skokić, Alex Tudorica, Jürgen Rendtel, André Knöfel and Ivana Barišić. (credit Axel Haas).
Alex Tudorica and his poster about the Romanian CAMS network talking to Luc Bastiaens (credit Adriana Roggemans).
During the poster session: Ana and Tudor Georgescu at their poster ‘Romanian All Sky Network – basic deployment’. (credit Irmgard Schmidt).
During the poster session: Jérémie Vaubaillon (back), Damir Šegon, Paul Sutherland, Tudor Georgescu, Zeljko Andreic, Adriana Roggemans, Maciej Myszkiewicz, Kerem Çubuk and Ulrich Sperberg. (credit Irmgard Schmidt).
Dominique Richard with a touchable Chelyabinsk (credit Dominique Richard).
The Radio workshop organized by Antonio Martinez Picar. (credit Dominique Richard).
The Radio workshop participants with on the first row Przemysław Żołądek, Kerem Çubuk, on the second row Lorenzo G. Morillas Sanchez, Abderrahmane Ibhi, Bernard Kieffer and Frans Lowiessen. On the third row: Alexander Bagrov and Bill Ward. (credit Dominique Richard).
The Radio workshop with Stijn Calders presenting ‘A web application to support the manual counting of radio meteors’. (credit Dominique Richard).
The Radio workshop with Jean-Louis Rault presenting ‘Software defined radio: the AMSAT-UK dongle as example’. (credit Dominique Richard).
Friday evening socializing: Kerem Çubuk, Paul Roggemans, Ferhat Özeren, Miruna Popescu and David Asher. (credit Axel Haas).
Friday evening socializing: Karol Fietkiewicz, Mirek Krasnowski, Przemysław Żołądek, Zbigniew Tymiński, Marcin Stolarz, Arnold Tukkers and Casper ter Kuile (in front). (credit Axel Haas).
Friday evening socializing: from left to right Maruška Mole, Francisco Ocaña (hidden), Klemen Čotar, Javor Kac (standing), Mitja Govedič, Ana Žegarac (back), Janez Kos, Matic Smrekar (guitar), Nina Smrekar, Jure Atanackov (hidden) and Detlef Koschny (back). (credit Axel Haas).
Friday evening socializing: from left to right Klemen Čotar, Lovro Pavletic, Ivica Skokić, Maruška Mole, Francisco Ocaña, Filip Novoselnik, Javor Kac and Mitja Govedič (edge). (credit Axel Haas).
Friday evening socializing: Matic Smrekar (guitar), Lovro Pavletic and Detlef Koschny. (credit Adriana Roggemans).
Preparing for the Saturday morning session, Przemysław Żołądek and Jürgen Rendtel (credit Bernd Klemt).
Preparing for the Saturday morning session, Ulrich Sperberg, Marc Neyts (background) Irmgard and Hans-Georg Schmidt, Tudor Georgescu (background) (credit Bernd Klemt).
Preparing for the Saturday morning session, Jürgen Rendtel, Paul Roggemans, Detlef Koschny, David Asher and Galina Ryabova (credit Bernd Klemt).
Galina Ryabova: ‘The Geminid stream modelling: lessons of history’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Galina Ryabova: ‘The Geminid stream modelling: lessons of history’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Damir Šegon: ‘Meteor Shower Search in the CMN and Sonotaco Orbital Data Bases’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Damir Šegon: ‘Meteor Shower Search in the CMN and Sonotaco Orbital Data Bases’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Detlef Koschny acted as chairman for session 4 (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jiří Borovička: ‘The analysis of casual video records of fireballs’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Przemysław Żołądek: ‘The greatest fireballs over Poland’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Bill Ward: ‘Geminid Fireballs with Persistant trains’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Michael Hankey: ‘Fireball Report’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Vincent Perlerin: ‘Fireball Report’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Michael Hankey and Vincent Perlerin: ‘Fireball Report’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Michael Hankey: ‘AMS fireball program, community website, mobile app and all sky camera program’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Michael Hankey: ‘AMS fireball program, community website, mobile app and all sky camera program’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pavel Spurný: ‘Interesting fireballs observed in the European Fireball Network from the last IMC’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Pavel Spurný: ‘Interesting fireballs observed in the European Fireball Network from the last IMC’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Jean-Louis Rault, Bill Ward, Klemen Čotar, André Knöfel, Kerem Çubuk, Marc Neijts, Chris Steyaert, Stella Arlt, Joe Zender, Ana Georgescu, Tudor Georgescu and Adriana Roggemans (edge). (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Saturday morning: Rainer and Stella Arlt (credit Bernd Klemt).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Vincent Perlerin (back), Geert Barentsen, Peter Brown, Ana Žegarac and Mike Hankey (hidden). (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Peter Jenniskens, Chris Peterson, Ana Georgescu, Pavel Spurný and Zbigniew Tymiński. (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Saturday morning: Irmgard and Hans-Georg Schmidt with Galina Ryabova (credit Bernd Klemt).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Nagatoshi Nogami, Shinsuke Abe and Pavel Koten. (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Francisco Ocaña, Marc Neijts, Tom Roelandts (hidden), Urška Pajer and Adriana Roggemans. (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Peter Jenniskens (edge), Tudor Georgescu, Ana Georgescu, Anna Karthashova, Arkadiusz Bingoraj and Yevgen Kozyryev. (credit Axel Haas).
Coffee break Saturday morning: from left to right Grigoris Maravelias, Ulrich Sperberg, Nastassia Smeets, Joe Zender, Irmgard Schmidt, Tom Roelandts, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Frans Lowiessen, Johan Kero and Hutch Kinsman (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jürgen Rendtel with the keynote lecture: ‘From rates to fluxes’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jürgen Rendtel: ‘From rates to fluxes’ with detailed illustrations (credit Bernd Klemt).
Joe Zender: ‘The calibration of spectral video observations in the visual: an overview of the VIDAS calibration pipeline’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Joe Zender: ‘The calibration of spectral video observations in the visual: an overview of the VIDAS calibration pipeline’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Denis Vida: ‘Meteor Stream Search for… amateurs’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Detlef Koschny: ‘Orbit computation and visualisation using the Virtual Meteor Observatory’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
And Immy appeared in Poland as a local mascotte (credit Bernd Klemt).
Geert Barentsen ‘FluxViewer v1.0: real-time meteoroid fluxes from video data’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Geert Barentsen ‘FluxViewer v1.0: real-time meteoroid fluxes from video data’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Elisabeth Silber with keynote lecture: ‘Introduction to meteor infrasound’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Elisabeth Silber with keynote lecture: ‘Introduction to meteor infrasound’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Aswin Shekhar: ‘Effects of general relativity on meteoroid orbits’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Preparing for the 2013 IMC excursion (credit Bernd Klemt).
Ready for the excursion: Stanislav Kaniansky, Matej Korec, Roman Piffl, Richard Kacerek and Jakub Koukal. (credit Axel Haas).
Ready for the excursion: Nastassia Smeets, Tom Roelandts, Jos Nijland, Vincent Perlerin, Paul Sutherland, Stijn Calders, Peter steward and Yevgen Kozyryev. (credit Axel Haas).
With 3 busses on excursion. From left to right we can see Przemysław Żołądek, Kerem Çubuk, Enrico Stomeo, Giancarlo Tomezzoli, Jean-Louis Rault, Nikola Bozic, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Abderrahmane Ibhi, André Knöfel, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Christian Steyaert, Netzer Moriya, Hutch Kinsman (looking away) and Irmgard Schmidt. (credit Dominique Richard).
Arrived at the Geological institute (credit Bernd Klemt).
Arrived at the Geological institute, easily recognized from left to right: Jean-Louis Rault, Pilar Garcia Vega, Roman Piffl, André Knöfel, Galina Ryabova and Mariusz Wiśniewski (credit Bernd Klemt).
Preparing for a lecture about the Morasko craters. From left to right Ulrich Sperberg (3rd row), Netzer Moriya (5th row), Bernard Kieffer (1st row), Mike Hankey (6th row), Pilar Garcia Vega (3rd row), Matic Smrekar (4th row), Sirko Molau (5th row), Jean-Louis Rault (1st row), Jakub Koukal (6th row), Klemen Čotar (5th row), Marcin Stolarz (3rd row), Matej Korec (6th row), Ana Žegarac (standing 5th row), Javor Kac (4th row), Stijn Calders (5th row), Abedin Abedin (standing background), Frans Lowiessen (3rd row), Jure Atanackov (5th row), Nikola Bozic (2nd row), Maciej Myszkiewicz (standing), Abderrahmane Ibhi (1st row), Mitja Govedič (4th row), Mirek Krasnowski (standing), Alex Tudorica (standing) and Elisabeth Silber (3rd row). (credit Bernd Klemt).
View in the lecture room. In the bottom left corner we see Damir Segon talking to Enrico Stomeo. (credit Axel Haas).
Sometimes the IMC looks like a photographers’conference. (credit Axel Haas).
Wojciech Stankowski with the presentation of the Morasko crater (credit Dominique Richard).
Przemysław Żołądek offering a present to the speaker, Professor Wojciech Stankowski (credit Bernd Klemt).
Paul Roggemans prepares the audiance for the IMC group photo (credit Bernd Klemt).
The official group photo, see next picture for identification. (credit Dominique Richard).
At the Geological Institute, in front we see Luc Bastiaens and Nastassia Smeets talking to Tom Roelandts (credit Bernd Klemt).
Visiting the rich meteorite collection: From left to right Alexander Bagrov, Netzer Moriya, Jürgen Rendtel, Abderrahmane Ibhi (kneeled), Matej Korec, Peter Steward, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Jos Nijland, Axel Haas, Nina Smrekar, Maria Hajdukova, Casper ter Kuile, Dominique Richard and museum guide Joanna Jawotska (credit Bernd Klemt).
From left to right Maciej Maciejewski, Luc Bastiaens, Pavel Spurny, Mitja Govedič, Mikulas Macansky, Marina Bolis, Ivana Barišić (half hidden), Klemen Čotar, Ana Žegarac (photographing), Matej Korec, Lorenzo G. Morillas Sanchez, Frans Lowiessen, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Alexander Bagrov, Andrey Murtazov and André Knöfel. (credit Axel Haas).
From left to right Mikulas Macansky, Dominique Richard, Grigoris Maravelias, museum guide Joanna Jawotska, Zbigniew Tymiński, Mihail Robescu , Przemysław Żołądek (hidden), Maciej Myszkiewicz, Alex Tudorica, Chris steyaert, Marina Bolis (hidden), Bernard Kieffer, Luc Bastiaens, Shinsuke Abe, Alexander Bagrov, Arnold Tukkers, Mitja Govedič, Urška Pajer, Ivana Barišić (photographing) and Frans Lowiessen. (credit Axel Haas).
The meteorite specialist from Morrocco Abderrahmane Ibhi. (credit Axel Haas).
Ready to go? Let’s go! Anna Kartashova, Abderrahmane Ibhi and Mirek Krasnowski. (credit Dominique Richard).
From left to right Ayyub Guliyev, Damir Segon (back), Przemysław Żołądek, Stanislav Kaniansky, Zeljko Andreic, Mike Hanky, Tom Roelandts, Pavel Zigo, Antonio Martinez, Marc Gyssens, Nagatoshi Nogami, Lorenzo G. Morillas Sanchez and Aswin Sekhar (credit Axel Haas).
The meteorite strewfield of Morasko (credit Bernd Klemt).
The Slovenian team, from left to right Mitja Govedič, Urska Pajer, Javor Kac, Jure Atanackov, Nina Smrekar, Matic Smrekar, Maruška Mole, Janez Kos, Klemen Čotar and Ana Žegarac (Serbia). (credit Axel Haas).
The meteorite ‘Rudy’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
From left to right we see the faces of Mirjana Malaric, Nastassia smeets, Galina Ryabova, Peter Brown, Francisco Ocaña, Pete Gural, Casper ter Kuile, Gordan Škunca, Elisabeth Silber and Bernard Kieffer (credit Bernd Klemt).
The garden of the geological Institute was decorated with plenty of stones (credit Bernd Klemt).
From the geological Institute back to the busses to visit the Morasko craters (credit Bernd Klemt).
Some explanation at the start of the path to the Morasko craters. From left to right we can recognize the faces of Giancarlo Tomezzoli, Zeljko Andreic, Urska Pajer, Damir Segon, Tudor Georgescu, Peter Jenniskens, Grigoris Maravelias, Paul Sutherland, Ivana Barišić, Ana Georgescu, Jean-Louis Rault, Irmgard Schmidt, Dominique Richard, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Frans Lowiessen, Detlef Koschny and Wojciech Stankowski. (credit Bernd Klemt).
Some explanation at the start of the path to the Morasko craters. From left to right Mirjana Malaric (looking away), Joe Zender, Wojciech Stankowski, Matic Smrekar, Christian Steyaert, Abderrahmane Ibhi, Bernd Klemt and Przemysław Żołądek. (credit Irmgard Schmidt).
With 120 participants on a narrow path into the woods. In front Ana Žegarac, Irmgard Schmidt (partly hidden), Mihail Robescu and Jean-Louis Rault. (credit Dominique Richard).
One of the craters (credit Bernd Klemt).
How big was the meteorite? Geert Barentsen knows the answer watched by Cis Verbeeck, with Ivana Barišić in the background (credit Bernd Klemt).
One of the craters (credit Bernd Klemt).
Marc Gyssens, Geert Barentsen, Cis Verbeeck (back), Gulchexra Kokhirova and Ayyub Guliev. (credit Dominique Richard).
On the ‘meteorite parking’ waiting for the busses (credit Bernd Klemt).
End of the excursion, ready to get back in the busses. From left to right Krzysztof Polakowski, Maciej Myszkiewicz, Pete Gural, Bill Ward, Ayyub Guliev, Gulchexra Kokhirova, Ireneusz Wlodarczyk (looking away), Wojciech Stankowski, Mirek Krasnowski (back), Przemysław Żołądek, Jiří Borovička, Johan Kero and Peter Jenniskens. (credit Axel Haas).
After the excursion the IMO offered champaign at the occassion of its 25th anniversary. (credit Dominique Richard).
Back at the IMC host hungry participants ‘attack’ the buffet. From left to right we see Arnold Tukkers, Casper ter Kuile, Enrico Stomeo, Marina Bolis and Vincent Perlerin (credit Bernd Klemt).
After the dinner most people gathered for the IMO General Assembly. On the first row we see Jean-Louis Rault. On the second row from left to right: Paul Roggemans, Adriana Roggemans, Bernard Kieffer, Bernd Klemt. On the third row Jiří Borovička, Galina Ryabova, Giancarlo Tomezzoli, André Knöfel and Detlef Koschny. On the fourth row Bill Ward, Casper ter Kuile (looking away), Alex Tudorica, Kerem Çubuk and Ferhat Özeren. Fifth row Andrey Murtazov, Nina Murtazova, Anna Kartashova and Arnold Tukkers (credit Axel Haas).
The IMO General Assembly with Paul Roggemans giving a presentation about the 25th anniversary of the IMO (credit Bernd Klemt).
The IMO General Assembly with Paul Roggemans giving a presentation about the 25th anniversary of the IMO (credit Bernd Klemt).
After the IMO General Assembly and the proposals for future IMC’s Jérémie Vaubaillon brought the IMC song. (credit Dominique Richard).
Last night of the IMC. From left to right Bill Ward, Paul Sutherland, Peter Steward, Urska Pajer (back), Tom Roelandts and Luc Bastiaens. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, Axel Haas and Paul Roggemans. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, Jos Nijland, Adriana Roggemans (back), Arnold Tukkers, Casper ter Kuile, Alex Tudorica and Marc Gyssens. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, Richard Karecek, Luc Bastiaens, Nastassia Smeets, Peter Steward, Bill Ward, Jakub Koukal, Antonio Martinez, Roman Piffl, Grigoris Maravelias, Stanislav Kaniansky, Urska Pajer (back), Vincent Perlerin, Mike Hankley. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, party time with Mitja Govedič, Jérémie Vaubaillon at guitar, Janez Kos, Cis Verbeeck and Robert Wyrek. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, party time with Nina Smrekar, Alen Žižak, Filip Novoselnik, Detlev Koschny, Francisco Ocaña (looking away), Maruška Mole, Matic Smrekar (face hidden) and Lovro Pavletic. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, party time with Kerem Çubuk, Mike Hankey (at the guitar), Urska Pajer, Jure Atackanov, Nina Smrekar and Javor Kac (looking away) (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, party time singing songs of the Beatles with Vincent perlerin, Alex Tudorica, Paul Sutherland, Casper ter Kuile, Paul Roggemans, Adriana Roggemans, Javor Kac, Jure Atackanov, Nina Smrekar and Mitja Govedič. (credit Axel Haas).
Last night of the IMC, party time with Alex Tudorica, Paul Sutherland, Marc Gyssens as guest star, Javor Kac and Casper ter Kuile. (credit Axel Haas).
Abedin Abedin: ‘Meteoroid stream simulations at The University of Western Ontario’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Abedin Abedin: ‘Meteoroid stream simulations at The University of Western Ontario’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Abedin Abedin: ‘Meteoroid stream simulations at The University of Western Ontario’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Shinsuke Abe: ‘Hayabusa Spacecraft Re-entry’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Shinsuke Abe: ‘Hayabusa Spacecraft Re-entry’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Guliyev Ayyub: ‘Analysis of MOID-values for Hyperbolic Comets’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Guliyev Ayyub: ‘Analysis of MOID-values for Hyperbolic Comets’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Ireneusz Wlodarczyk: ‘Paths of risk of the potentially dangerous asteroid (99942) Apophis’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Nagatoshi Nogami: ‘Meteorites in Japan II’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Marcin Stolarz: ‘Chelyabinsk meteorites hunting, spring time expedition’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Marcin Stolarz: ‘Chelyabinsk meteorites hunting, spring time expedition’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Anna Kartashova: ‘Expedition to the field of the Chelyabinsk event’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Anna Kartashova: ‘Expedition to the field of the Chelyabinsk event’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Shinsuke Abe: ‘Chelyabinsk Meteorite’ (credit Bernd Klemt).
Jürgen Rendtel closing the 32nd IMC (credit Bernd Klemt).
The IMC organizers Mirek Krasnowski, Mariusz Wiśniewski and Przemysław Żołądek (credit Bernd Klemt).
The IMC organizers Marcin Stolarz, Zbigniew Tymiński, Karol Fietkiewicz and Mariusz Wiśniewski (credit Bernd Klemt).
The IMC organizers Mariusz Wiśniewski, Mirek Krasnowski, Maciej Maciejewski and Przemysław Żołądek (credit Bernd Klemt).
The IMC organizers being congratulated by the IMO IMC coach for their excellent organizing work: Przemysław Żołądek and Paul Roggemans (credit Bernd Klemt).
To express the gratitude of IMO for the efforts made by the LOC, the IMO liaison officer had a small present for the Polish team. From left to right Paul Roggemans, Jürgen Rendtel and Adriana Roggemans (credit Bernd Klemt).
The IMC organizers Mariusz Wiśniewski, Mirek Krasnowski and Maciej Maciejewski with a small personal attention from the IMO IMC coach: a bottle of Gouden Carlolus an histiric beer from Mechelen (credit Bernd Klemt).
After 25 years as IMO-President, Jürgen Rendtel decided not be re-electable for another term. The President of IAU Commission 22, Peter Jenniskens, expressed his gratitude and thanked Jürgen in name of the meteor community for so many years of volunteer work (credit Bernd Klemt).
And after 25 years as IMO-President, Jürgen Rendtel addressed the IMC audiance (credit Bernd Klemt).
And the very final official words came from the IMO Treasurer, Marc Gyssens (credit Bernd Klemt).
After the IMC a large number of participants stayed for another night and enjoyed the afternoon for some sightseeing. (credit Dominique Richard).
Everywhere IMC people could be met in the streets of Poznań. Here Jean-Louis Rault, Bernard Kieffer and Christian Steyaert. (credit Dominique Richard).
Everywhere IMC people could be met in the streets of Poznań. Nagatoshi Nogami, Shinsuke Abe and Christian Steyaert. (credit Dominique Richard).
The observatory near Poznań with Bernard Kieffer. (credit Dominique Richard).
Some people stayed for Meteoroids. Here Stijn Calders and Jean-Louis Rault with someone who stays even longer than Meteoroids. (credit Adriana Roggemans).
Many IMC faces were present at Meteoroids, here during the Meteoroids excursion: Zeljko Andreic, Chris Peterson, Paul Roggemans and Alexander Bagrov. (credit Adriana Roggemans).
Poznań proved to be a wonderful historic city to discover. Hans-Georg Schmidt, Galina Ryabova and Axel Haas. (credit Irmgard Schmidt).