- 23rd meeting
- IMC 2004 Website
- Local organizers : Valentin Velkov.
- 73 participants from 17 countries: Belarus (3), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (30), Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (3), Japan (3), Macedonia (2), the Netherlands (6), Poland (1), Romania (8), Russia (1), Serbia (2), Slovakia (4), Slovenia (3), Switzerland (1) and U.K. (2).
- 20 presentations all of which were included in the Proceedings.
- IMC 2004 Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-87355-015-8): 115 pages (eds. Mihaela Triglav-Cekada, Javor Kac, Alastair McBeath).
- Contents: Spectroscopy – Perseids – June Bootid and Quadrantid modelling.
- Participation fee 100 Euro.
The good experience with the 1994 IMC in Bulgaria favored another IMC in this country (hosted in an universitary hotel). The excursion brought the participants to Varna Observatory and the Aladzi monastery (placed in a protected natural park). The Saturday evening Astroshow included contributions from eight countries. This was a most enjoyable IMC at the Black Sea with an all-night-long beach party (with much Bulgarian guitar music) where the IMC song was born (as a French initiative).
Acknowledgement : We thank Rainer Arlt and Casper ter Kuile for the photographs of this 2004 IMC.
The Proceedings of the International Meteor Conference, Varna 2004.
Arrival of the participants (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Jos Nijland, Arnold Tukkers and Yasuhiro Tonomura (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jos Nijland photographing the photographer (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jos Nijland happy with the picture (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The flags for the countries of all participants (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Valentin Velkov and Desislava Zhekova at the registration desk (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Radostin Nikolov, Adriana Nicolae, Valentin Grigore and Andrei Gheorghe (credit Rainer Arlt).
Preparations for the IMC (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Marc Gyssens (credit Rainer Arlt).
Zakhar Lapitsky and Sergey Dubrovski from Belarus (credit Rainer Arlt).
?? and Valentin Velkov (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The public during the lecture sessions (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Frans Lowiessen, Frans De Keijzer, Galina Ryabova and Marc Neijts (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. ??, Adriana Nicolae, Diana Maria Ogescu, ??,Diana-Larisa Tampu, ??,Christina Tinta-Vass and Alexandru Conu photographing (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Alexandru Conu during his presentation (credit Rainer Arlt).
Christina Tinta-Vass, Alexandru Conu, ?? and Valentin Grigore (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Marc Gyssens, ??, Anton Antonov and Valentin Grigore (credit Rainer Arlt).
First row ??, ??, Jérémie Vaubaillon. Second row Valentin Grigore (standing), ??, ??, ??, Ivan Brukhanov and ?? (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Cis Verbeeck, Radostin Nikolov and Ivanka Getsova (credit Rainer Arlt).
First row from l.to r. Galina Ryabova, Marc Neijts and Marc Gyssens (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. ??, ??, Javor Kac, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Sergey Dubrovski and Malcolm Currie (credit Casper ter Kuile).
??, ?? and Valentin Grigore (credit Casper ter Kuile).
??, Arnold Tukkers and Valentin Grigore (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The Beach boys: Cis Verbeeck and Marc Gyssens (credit Rainer Arlt).
Break on the beach, from l.to r. Andrei Dorian Gheorge, Adriana Nicolae and Christina Tinta-Vass (credit Casper ter Kuile).
IMO and IMC veteran, Casper ter Kuile as bay watcher (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The photographers at work (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The Aquarids at the beach (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Enjoying the Black Sea (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Enjoying the Black Sea (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Informal evening, Jos Nijland and Galina Ryabova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Informal evening: from l.to r. Chris Trayner, Rainer Arlt, Marc Gyssens, ??, Eva Bojurova and Maria Krumova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jos Nijland, ?? and Galina Ryabova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Frans De Keijzer, Frans Lowiessen, Marc Neijts and Rainer Arlt in the background (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Marc Neijts, Mirko Dijak, Chris Trayner, Rainer Arlt, Marc Gyssens, ??, Eva Bojurova and Maria Krumova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Frans Lowiessen, Marc Neijts, Mirko Dijak, Chris Trayner, Rainer Arlt, Marc Gyssens and ?? (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Rainer Arlt, Marc Gyssens, ??, Eva Bojurova and Maria Krumova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jos Nijland and Galina Ryabova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Marc Neijts, Chris Trayner, Mirko Dijak, Maria Krumova and Cis Verbeeck (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Frans De Keijzer and Frans Lowiessen (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Urska Pajer takes her breath (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Cis Verbeeck in thehigher atmosphere (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Lunch at the IMC, from l.to r. Yasuhiro Tonomura, ??, ??, Alexandru Conu, Christina Tinta-Vass and Arnold Tukkers (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Yasuhiro Tonomura looking for meteors ? (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Galina Ryabova,Marc Neijts, Frans De Keijzer and Frans Lowiessen (credit Rainer Arlt).
From l.to r. Yasuhiro Tonomura, Galina Ryabova, Marc Neijts and Frans Lowiessen (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Malcolm Currie, Eva Bojurova and Chris Trayner (credit Rainer Arlt).
Jos Nijland and Andrei Dorian Gheorge (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Ivan Bryukhanov,Cis Verbeeck and Marc Gyssens (credit Rainer Arlt).
Valentin Velkov, ?? and Eva Bujorova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Velislava Kiryakova, Eva Bojurova, Javor Kac and Zhelyo Zhelev (credit Rainer Arlt).
Jos Nijland and Arnold Tukkers (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Javor Kac, Jos Nijland and Arnold Tukkers (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Valentin Grigore, ??, Andrei Dorian Gheorge, Christina Tinta-Vass, Alexandru Conu, Diana-Larisa Tampu, Adriana Nicolae and Diana Maria Ogescu (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Valentin Grigore, Yasuhiro Tonomura and ?? (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Preparing for the group photo (credit Rainer Arlt).
Preparing for the group photo (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Preparing for the group photo (credit Casper ter Kuile).
First row from l.to r. Andreas Buchmann, Ivan Brukhanov, Chris Trayner, Diana Maria Ogescu, Desislava Zhivkova (seated), Mariya Krumova (seated), ?? (seated), Eva Bujorova and Rainer Arlt. Second row: Jos Nijland, Adriana Nicolae, Diana-Larisa Tampu, Hristo Stoev, Vesna Slavkovic, Daniela Cujuc and Ulrich Sperberg. Third row : Malcolm Currie, Cristina Tinta-Vass, Sergey Dubrowski, Zakhar Lapitski, Milena Popova, Galina Gospodinova, Boncho Bonev, Zhelyo Donchev and Roland Winkler. Last rows : Arnold Tukkers, Cis Verbeeck, Liliya Porozhanova, Doychin Donchev, Filip Grozdanov, Konrad Szaruga, Radostin Nikolov, Nikolay Kacharov (hidden), Petar Todorov, Radoslav Enchev, Katya Koleva, Zahari Donchev, Valentin Velkov and Zhelyo Zhelev (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The excursion destination (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The first part of the excursion (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jérémie Vaubaillon and Petar Todorov (credit Rainer Arlt).
During the excursion (credit Casper ter Kuile).
7000-yr-old gold treasure (credit Rainer Arlt).
In the planetarium, first row : Chris Trayner. Second row: Javor Kac, Jérémie Vaubaillon, Alexandru Conu, Christina Tinta-Vass, Diana-Larisa Tampu. Third row : Valentin Grigore, ??, Cis Verbeeck and Diana Maria Ogescu (credit Casper ter Kuile).
In front of the Aladza monastery (credit Rainer Arlt).
At the Aladza monastery (credit Casper ter Kuile).
At Aladzha monastery cliff dwellings, from l.to r. Marc Gyssens, Arnold Tukkers, Adriana Nicolae, Diana-Larisa Tampu, Alexandru Conu, Christina Tinta-Vass, Valentin Velkov, Jos Nijland and Konrad Szaruga (credit Rainer Arlt).
At Aladzha monastery cliff dwellings, from l.to r. Diana-Larisa Tampu, Adriana Nicolae, Christina Tinta-Vass, Alexandru Conu, Valentin Velkov, Eva Bojurova and Arnold Tukkers (credit Casper ter Kuile).
At Aladzha monastery cliff dwellings. Foreground: Arnold Tukkers and Casper ter Kuile (credit Rainer Arlt).
At Aladzha monastery cliff dwellings. Foreground: Daniel Ocenas (credit Casper ter Kuile).
At Aladzha monastery cliff dwellings (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Inside the Aladzha monastery, from l.to r. ??, Sergey Dubrowski, Marc Gyssens, Christina Tinta-Vass, Alexandru Conu, Javor Kac and Zakhar Lapitski (credit Rainer Arlt).
From l.to r. Diana Maria Ogescu, Valentin Grigore, Ulrich Sperberg, ?? and ?? (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Inside the Aladzha monastery, from l.to r. Ulrich Sperberg and Arnold Tukkers (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Lunch at the IMC from l.to r. Adriana Nicolae, Diana Maria Ogescu, Valentin Grigore, ??, Diana-Larisa Tampu and Sergey Dubrowski (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The astro poetry show with in front Galina Ryabova, Ivan Brukhanov, ??, ?? Arnold Tukkers and Valentin Grigore (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The astro poetry show with in front Galina Ryabova, Ivan Brukhanov, ??, ?? Arnold Tukkers and Valentin Grigore (credit Rainer Arlt).
The astro poetry show with in front ??, ?? Arnold Tukkers, Valentin Grigore, ?? and Eva Bojurova (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jérémie Vaubaillon (credit Rainer Arlt).
From l.to r. Marc Neijts, Frans de Keijzer, Galina Ryabova and ?? (credit Rainer Arlt).
The astro poetry show with in the middle Galina Ryabova and Ivan Brukhanov (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The astro poetry show with Valentin Grigore (credit Rainer Arlt).
The astro poetry show with Andrei Gheorghe (credit Rainer Arlt).
The astro poetry show with Adriana Nicolae and Andrei Gheorghe (credit Rainer Arlt).
The astro poetry show artists from l.to r. Valentin Grigore, Jérémie Vaubaillon, ??, Adriana Nicolae, Andrei Gheorghe, Christina Tinta-Vass, Alexandru Conu, Diana Maria Ogescu, Diana-Larisa Tampu and Jos Nijland (credit Casper ter Kuile).
United effort to get the campfire on the beach with Frans Lowiessen, Sergey Dubrowski and Valentin Velkov (credit Casper ter Kuile).
From l.to r. Diana Maria Ogescu, Adriana Nicolae, Diana-Larisa Tampu, Alexandru Conu, Christina Tinta-Vass, ??, Ivan Brukhanov and Jérémie Vaubaillon playing the guitar (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Enjoying the warm night on the beach, from l.to r. ??,??, Marc Gyssens, Eva Bujorova, ?? and Rainer Arlt (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Campfire on the beach with Valentin Velkov playing guitar (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Fun on the beach (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Campfire on the beach (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Till late in the night the fire kept the people at the beach (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Cis Verbeeck, presenting 2005 IMC (credit Rainer Arlt).