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| Kuffner Observatory |
Klaudia Einhorn and Andy Chwatal welcome the participants at the registration desk |
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| Günther Wuchterl, president of the Verein Kuffner Sternwarte, welcomes the participants of MACE 2006 |
Christoph Goldmann, Superman of the LOC |
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| Hermann Mucke |
Rudolf Dvorak |
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| Monty Robson and Peter Birtwhistle |
Maria Eugenia Sansaturio |
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| Sergio Foglia |
Ireneusz Wlodarczyk |
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| Pawel Kankiewicz |
Florian Freistetter |
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| Participants enjoy the fine weather during a break |
Augusto Testa, Francesco Manca and Andrea Milani |
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| Christine and Gerard Faure, Raoul Behrend, Stefano Sposetti |
Klaudia Einhorn and Günther Wuchterl |
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| Vienna University Observatory at dusk |
Double Astrograph at the University Observatory |
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| Our guide, Thomas Posch, cites Johann Palisa |
Eric Elst and Edwin Goffin |
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| Inside the main dome |
Observing with the 27'' refractor |
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| Cristovao Jacques observes Saturn, while Gianni Galli queues up |
The Moon and Jupiter rise over the Vienna University Observatory |
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| Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell |
Andrea Milani |
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| Reiner Stoss, with Palomar Schmidt plate |
Jaime Nomen inspects a fragment of a broken Schmidt plate |
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| Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero remotely oberving comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, while Aldo Vitagliano checks his e-mails in the Internet Café. |
Raoul Behrend, interviewed by Michael Jensen from Jensens Radio |
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Language barrier
(No, this is not the warning sign in front of a particularly bad restaurant, but rather the sign of a restaurant at a public open air bath - in German, "Bad" means "bath"...) |
Reiner Stoss, Jaime Nomen, Edwin Goffin, Stefano Sposetti, Salvador Sanchez, Eric Elst, Herbert Raab, Armin Faltl, Tom Alderweireldt and Gerard Faure enjoy Viennese slow food |
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| Christian Koeberl |
André Knöfel |
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| Peter Veres |
Cristovao Jacques |
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| Aldo Vitagliano |
Raoul Behrend |
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| Günther Wuchterl, Klaudia Einhorn, Christop Goldmann, happy about the naming of minor planet (12568) Kuffner |
At the Heurigen "10er Marie" |
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| Italians taste some white and red wine... |
...while others take a beer or two. |
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| Jens Kandler, Bernd Brinkmann, Werner Hasubick, Michael Parl, André Knöfel |
Salvador Sanchez, Genny Sansaturio, Oscar Arratia, Juan Lacruz, Jaime Nomen, Reiner Stoss |
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| Günther Wuchterl, Roger Dymock, Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell, Richard Miles, Petr Pravec, Korado Korlevic |
Buffet at the Heurigen |
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| "Did they really dare to cut the lens of the Heliometer in two...?" |
Inside the main dome of the Kuffner Observatory |
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| The main instrument of the Kuffner Observatory, a photographic/visual double refractor |
Richard Miles, Aleksandar Cikota and Reiner Stoss on the catwalk |
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| Transit instrument |
Günther Wuchterl at the meridian circle of the Kuffner Observatory |
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| Monty Robson, Roger Dymock, Richard Miles, Robin Lauryssen-Mitchell and Christian Kjaernet |
Raoul Behrend, Edwin Goffin, Tom Alderweireldt and Stefano Sposetti |
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| Petr Pravec |
Giovanni Sostero |
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| Ljuban Jerosimic |
Aleksandar Cikota |
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| Richard Miles |
Armin Faltl |
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| The Natural History Museum, a palace for natural sciences and education |
Monty Robson and Peter Birtwhistle take a close look at some space rocks |
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| A 900 kg iron meteorite from Youndegin, Australia |
Reiner Stoss and Korado Korlevic bid farewell to Vienna |
