- 25th meeting
- IMC 2006 Website
- Local organizers: Local organizers: Joost Hartman, Urijan Poerink, Marc Neijts, Roy Keeris and Felix Bettonvil (KNVWS Meteor Section).
- 68 participants from 16 countries: Belgium (7), China (1), France (2), Germany (11), Ireland (1), Japan (2), the Netherlands (22), Poland (3), Romania (6), Russia (1), Serbia (1), Slovenia (1), U.K.(5), Ukraine (1), U.S.A. (2) and Venezuela (2).
- 35 presentations (29 lectures, 6 posters).
- IMC 2006 Proceedings (ISBN 978-2-87355-018-9): 190 pages (eds. Felix Bettonvil, Javor Kac).
- Contents: Meteor trajectories and velocities – historical survey – IMO Working List of Meteor Showers – parent comets – meteor-stream models – meteor Orbit Workshop – Perseids 2006 – sporadic meteors – radio School – camera networks – radio observations – 25 IMCs historic overview.
- Participation fee 120 Euro.
The 25th version of the IMC, hosted in small and quiet accommodations, was celebrated in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the organizing NVWS Meteor Section (for which the hosts offered a barbecue, their honorary President’s lecture, and some rounds of live rock music during the last evening). This IMC was again preceeded by a Radio Meteor School and this time also a Meteor Orbit Workshop. One remarkable highlight was the presentation of video observing results and their implications for the IMO’s Working List of Meteor Showers. The excursion allowed the IMC participants to visit the Westerbork Radio Telescopes and the LOFAR prototype station. A very moving moment was a slide-show with information and images from all editions of the IMCs. In the longest night in IMC history, the traditional Saturday evening Astroshow became the Sunday morning Astroshow (with participants from 12 countries).
Acknowledgement: We thank Rainer Arlt, Adriana Nicolae, Jos, Nijland, Urska Pajer, Urijan Poerink, Casper ter Kuile, Jérémie Vaubaillon and Jean-Marc Wislez for the photographs of this 2006 IMC, and Felix Bettonvil, Joost Hartman and Roy Keeris for their comments to these pages as IMC-organizers.
IMC-2006 organizers (from l.to r.): Marc Neijts, Urijan Poerink and Joost Hartman, Marc de Lignie enjoys the sunshine in the back (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Participants’ badges waiting for the people to arrive (credit Urijan Poerink).
Dolmen (‘Hunnebedden’ in Dutch) in the region of Roden (credit Urška Pajer).
Galina Ryabova and Frans De Keijzer (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jérémie Vaubaillon and Marc Neijts (credit Rainer Arlt).
Hans-Georg Schmidt and Paul Roggemans (credit Urijan Poerink).
The first evening when most participants had arrived (credit Jos Nijland).
Free chat, in front we recognize Jacob Kuiper, Cis Verbeeck and Marc de Lignie (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Free chat, in front we recognize Peter Jenniskens, Galina Ryabova and Geert Barentsen (credit Urijan Poerink).
Free chat, from l.to r. Nassia Smeets, Stijn Calders, Frans Lowiessen, Frans de Keijzer and Arnold Tukkers (credit Urijan Poerink).
Jos Nijland and Peter Jenniskens (credit Urijan Poerink).
Urška Pajer, Antonio Martinez and ‘Irina’ Ryabova, Galina’s virtual sister (credit Urška Pajer).
From l.to r. Cis Verbeeck, Frans Lowiessen, André Knöfel, Jonathan Mc Auliffe (guitar), Bernd Brinkmann (photographing) and Geert Barentsen (credit Urijan Poerink).
Breakfast from l.to r. Paul Roggemans, Hans-Georg Schmidt, Stela Frencheva with Galina Ryabova and Svetlana Suleymanova in the background (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jürgen Rendtel and Nagatoshi Nogami (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Breakfast at the IMC with the delegation from Poland at the table right: Mariusz Wisnieuwski, Przemyslaw Zoladek and Miroslaw Krasnowski (credit Urijan Poerink).
Hans-Georg Schmidt, Stijn Calders and Antonio Martinez (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Paul Roggemans and Casper ter Kuile (credit Urijan Poerink).
IMO selling publications with in front Cis Verbeeck and Geert Barentsen (credit Casper ter Kuile).
IMO selling publications with in front Hans-Georg Schmidt, Jérémie Vaubaillon and Lucie Maquet (credit Jos Nijland).
The internet-room, from l.to r. Felix Bettonvil, Diana Larisa Tampu, François Colas, Miroslaw Krasnowski, Adriana Nicolae and Mariusz Wisniewski (filming) (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The internet-room, from l.to r. Jos Nijland, Milan Darijevic, Sirko Molau and at right Antonio Martinez, Paul Roggemans and Casper ter Kuile (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The audience during the lectures (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Joost Hartman at the opening speeches of the IMC 2006 (credit Urijan Poerink).
The IMO-President Jürgen Rendtel opening the IMC (credit Urijan Poerink).
Felix Bettonvil with the organizers’ announcements (credit Urijan Poerink).
Detlef Koschny as first session chairman (credit Urijan Poerink).
Eduard Bettonvil with the opening lecture ‘Least-squares estimation of the velocity of a meteor’ at the 2006 IMC (credit Urijan Poerink).
Prakash Atreya presenting ‘Software for single/double meteors’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Antonio Martinez presenting ‘Historical Survey of the National Astronomical Observatory in Llano del Hato’ (credit Rainer Arlt).
Antonio Martinez presenting ‘Historical Survey of the National Astronomical Observatory in Llano del Hato’ (credit Urška Pajer).
Vladimir Slusarenko presenting ‘A New method for visual observation of meteors’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Sirko Molau presenting ‘How good is the IMO Working List of Meteor Showers?’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
The audience from l.to r. : Milan Darijevic, Geert Barentsen, Lucie Maquet, Bernd Gaehrken, Hans-Georg Schmidt and André Knöfel (credit Rainer Arlt).
The audience with in front Marc de Lignie and Chris Trayner (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The audience, speaker Sirko Molau and session chairman Rainer Arlt (credit Urijan Poerink).
Peter Jenniskens presenting ‘Meteor showers and their parent comets’ (credit Rainer Arlt).
Galina Ryabova presenting ‘Model Geminid stream: radiants and orbits’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
The audience and the beamer operator Frans Lowiessen (credit Urijan Poerink).
Geert Barentsen presenting ‘3D visualization of meteoroid streams’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Rainer Arlt presenting ‘The new working list of meteor showers’ (credit Rainer Arlt).
Jonathan Mc Auliffe presenting ‘Summary of the Meteor Orbit Workshop’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Poster session with in front Hans-Georg Schmidt (credit Rainer Arlt).
Poster session with in front Alexandru Conu, Diana Larisa Tampu and Adriana Nicolae (credit Urijan Poerink).
Andrei Dorian Gheorghe and Valentin Grigore ‘Other Comet-Meteor Meteorite connections in Romanian Poetry’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Joost Hartman and Jonathan Mc Auliffe as swinging barmen (credit Urška Pajer).
Friday evening at the bar, Arnold Tukkers (blue T-shirt), Elise Ijland, Chris Trayner, Frans de Keijzer and François Colas (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Joost Hartman and Jonathan McAuliffe and the karaoke bar (credit Jos Nijland).
Breakfast with from l.to r. Jürgen Rendtel, Chris Trayner, Bernd Brinkmann and André Knöfel (credit Rainer Arlt).
Jürgen Rendtel presenting ‘Sporadic meteors – sources and rates’ (credit Rainer Arlt).
Valentin Grigore presenting ‘Perseids 2006 results in Romania’ (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jean Marc Wislez presenting ‘Summary of the Radio school’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Cis Verbeeck and Jean-Marc Wislez (credit Urška Pajer).
Cis Verbeeck presenting ‘Summary of the Radio school’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Masa-yuki Yamamoto presenting ‘Recent ongoing works on the HRO-IF at KUT and the auto-echo-counting software on the HROFFT spectrogram’ (credit Urijan Poerink).
Laptop and beamer stories at IMCs (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Relaxing: in front Joachim Floher, Jacob Kuiper, Sirko Molau, Carina Theiler and in the background Diana Larisa Tampu and Adriana Nicolae (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Dragana Okolic and her son (credit Urijan Poerink).
Ready to get on the bus for the Saturday excursion (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Stela Frencheva and the son of Felix and Dragana (credit Rainer Arlt).
Peter Jenniskens and Geert Barentsen (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Arrival by busses at the Westerbork site (credit Jos Nijland).
Visiting the Westerbork radio telescopes (credit Urijan Poerink).
Westerbork served as a prisoncamp in WWII. From l.to r. Cis Verbeeck, Luc Bastiaens, Valentin Grigore and André Knöfel (credit Adriana Nicolae).
At the memorial of the victims of Westerbork (credit Casper ter Kuile).
At the memorial of the victims of Westerbork from l.to r. Alexandru Conu, Casper Ter Kuile, Urijan Poerink, Arnold Tukker, Elise Ijland, Paul Van Veen and Cristina Tinta-Vass (credit Adriana Nicolae).
The synthetic radio telescope array with in front Adriana Nicolae and Diana Larisa Tampu (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Listening at the explanation about the giant telescopes (credit Urijan Poerink).
Malcolm Currie at work (credit Jérémie Vaubaillon).
The the dead-end railway of the former prisonners camp (credit Adriana Nicolae).
Nagatoshi Nogami at the Westerbork site (credit Rainer Arlt).
Stane Slavec, Malcolm Currie, Lucie Maquet, Nassia Smeets and Huan Meng (credit Jérémie Vaubaillon).
Explanation at the receiver systems of the radio telescopes (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Explanation at the receiver systems of the radio telescopes (credit Urijan Poerink).
Explanation at the control room of the radio telescopes (credit Urijan Poerink).
Preparing for the official IMC group photo’ (credit Casper ter Kuile).
The official IMC 2006 group photo: seated from l.to r. Adriana Nicolae, Christina Tinta-Vass,
Tampu Diana Larisa, Eduard Bettonvil, Vanda Tarigan, Joost Hartman, Dragana Okolic, Dušan Bettonvil, Urška Pajer, Felix Bettonvil, Jean-Marc Wislez, Vladimir Slusarenko, Amanda Schut, Stela Frencheva, Rainer Arlt, Galina Ryabova, Frans de Keijzer, Nel Fokker, Simon van Leverink, Paul Roggemans, Valentin Grigore and Peter Jenniskens. Standing from l.to r. Jérémie Vaubaillon, François Colas, Detlef Koschny, Luc Bastiaens, Arnold Tukkers (hidden), Alexandru Conu, Elise Ijland, Geoff Grayer, Jos Nijland, Lucie Maquet, Hans-Georg Schmidt (hidden), Frans Lowiessen, Stane Slavec, Sirko Molau, Carina Theiler, Bernd Gährken, Geert Barendsen, Joachim Floher, Jacob Kuiper, Malcolm Currie, André Knöfel, Apostolos Christou, Cis Verbeeck, ?? (hidden), Roy Keeris, Nastassia Smeets, Przemyslaw Zoladek, ??, Marc de Lignie, Mariusz Wisniewski, Svetlana, Suleymanova, Emma Versteegh, Miroslaw Krasnowski, Huan Meng, Antonio Martinez Picar, Bernd Brinkmann, Jürgen Rendtel, Nagatoshi Nogami, Milan Dajirević, Masa-Yuki Yamamoto, Paul van Vliet, Andrei Dorian Gheorge, Stijn Calders and Chris Trayner (credit Urijan Poerink).
During the photographing session of the group photo (credit Jérémie Vaubaillon).
During the photographing session of the group photo (credit Casper ter Kuile).
During the photographing session of the group photo (credit Urijan Poerink).
Jérémie Vaubaillon and Rainer Arlt photographing (credit Casper ter Kuile).
LOFAR, the field with the experimental setup (credit Adriana Nicolae).
LOFAR, the field with the experimental setup (credit Casper ter Kuile).
LOFAR, the field with the experimental setup (credit Urijan Poerink).
A walk through stinging nettles and thistles (credit Casper ter Kuile).
All getting through nettles and thistles (credit Jos Nijland).
The antennas in the field covered by weeds (credit Urijan Poerink).
Frans de Keijzer and the guide (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Alltogether around one antenna setup (credit Urijan Poerink).
Lucky few in the computer container of LOFAR (credit Casper ter Kuile).
LOFAR, the explanation (credit Jos Nijland).
Explanation in the computer container of LOFAR (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Chris Trayner and Peter Jenniskens in the bus (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Joost Hartman and Jacob Kuiper in the bus (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Paul Roggemans, Carl Johannink, Casper ter Kuile, Jacob Kuiper, Rita Verhoef, Koen Miskotte and Peter Jenniskens all waiting for the barbecue (credit Jos Nijland).
Guest speaker Hugo Van Woerden at the 60th anniversary of the NVWS meteor section (Urijan Poerink).
Joost Hartman thanking Hugo Van Woerden (credit Urijan Poerink).
Happy faces at the barbecue, Frans Lowiessen, Frans de Keijzer, Paul Roggemans and Arnold Tukkers (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Jacob Kuiper admires the delicious plates prepared by Marc Neijts and his helpers (credit Urijan Poerink).
Jacob Kuiper takes advantage of the darkness aside of Rita Verhoef (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Ready for the barbecue, right from the center Koen Miskotte (credit Urijan Poerink).
From l.to r. Jos Nijland, Jacob Kuiper, Rita Verhoef and Carl Johannink (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Joost Hartman serving at the barbecue (credit Casper ter Kuile).
Roy Keeris and Emma Versteegh working at the barbecue (credit Urijan Poerink).
Like artworks, delicious plates invite the IMC participants to dinner (credit Urijan Poerink).
Plenty of food at the barbecue so people got as often and as much as anyone could eat, no effort was too much for the organizing crew (credit Casper ter Kuile).
