Workshop for New Members

16 September 2015
Talker: Atila Poro
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Thired IOTA/ME Astronomy Summer School

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Aldebaran Lunar Occultation

On Sundaymorning of August 8, 2015 at 2:22 Central time (21:52 UT). Aldebran occultation that is located in the Taurus constellation is observable. Moreover, the phase of moon will be 30 percent, the star visual magnitude will be approximately 0.9, and the occultation will occur from the eastern edge of the moon.
The moon map is particularly useful for reappearance, as it assists in identifying where the star will reappear against recognizable lunar features. The displayed map of the moon is plotted with full allowance for Libration.

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The Rehional Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse in Shiraz, Iran

On 9th July 2015, a highly anticipated four-hour-lenght workshop was held under the title of "scientific observation, astronomy occultations and amatour astronomic applied projects" supervised Mr Atila Poro (head of IOTA's middle east section). In addition to Shiraz Astronomy Society members, other guests took this course in which three 75-min parts were instructed by the honoured speecher, Mr Poro. This workshop aimed the distribution of astronomic general knowledge and more organized co-operations between Shiraz Astronomy Society and IOTA's organization and at the end the certficate of both organizations were presented to the participants.
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A gift from IOTA/ES

During 5th international workshop on occultation and eclipse in Isfahan, February 2015, Dr. Eberhard Riedel honored us with his presence for improving it.
Influence by wide activities of occultation department, he donated two valuable and useful photometry tools from European IOTA.
Masters and members of IOTA/ME occultation department, thanks to him and IOTA/ES. Also we planned a regular program for effective use of given tools.


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The 5th International Workshop on Occultation and Eclipse (2015)

The 5th international workshop on occultation and eclipse was held in Isfahan on Feb 25-17, 2015. this annual event was held by IOTA/ME and Iranian Space Agency (ISA), International Astronomical Union (IAU), Adib Astronomy Center, OAM Institute, HA Company and CAAM were supporting it. three foreign lecturers attended there, Dr. Eberhard Reidel from Germany, Prof. Piero Benvenuti from Italy and Dr. Fahri Alicavus from Turkey. 43 semi-professional astronomers accepted for attending after checking their resume and their scientific level.
three articles accepted for this workshop as lectures: one of them was about variable stars by Ms. Fereshteh Tavakkoli, and the others were about asteroids by Mohammad Reza Shahjahan and Mohammad Reza Shafizadeh and astrobiology by Mrs. Salehe Ebadirad.



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