IAU Commission 8


Newsletter No. 5                                           July 15, 2009

Dear Colleagues,

As it was mentioned in the previous newsletter, we have been allocated
Sessions 2, 3 and 4 on Monday, 10th August 2009. Following the Business
meeting during Session 2 there will be two Science sessions, each lasting
1.5 hours. The location of the meeting is expected to be in the
Juruna Room - R2.8, Second Floor.

Session 2

1) Commission activities 2006-09        25 min     I.Kumkova
 -New commission members
 -Election results, new Commission Officers

2) Working Group report                 20 min     N.Zacharias
 -LQRF program
 -San Fernando, CTA, CMASF programs
 -SPM
 -UCAC3
 -status LSST, PST1
 -reference to history of astrometry
3) General discussion                   25 min
4) Announcement of "Introduction to Astrometry" and SPM info
                                        10 min     W. van Altena
5) AOB                                  10 min

Session 3

1  23+2 mins 400 Years of Astrometry: From Tycho Brahe to Hipparcos (Hoeg)
2  18+2 mins JASMINE (Gouda et al)
3  13+2 mins Nano-JASMINE (Hatsutori et al)
4  18+2 mins ICRF-2 (Fey)
5  12+2 mins Strengthening the ICRS optical link... (Popescu et al.)

Session 4

6  18+2 mins UCAC, NOMAD, URAT - star catalogs for astrometry (Zacharias)
7  18+2 mins Determination of L Dwarf Distances... (Smart et al)
8  18+2 mins The LQRF - An Optical Representation of the ICRS (Andrei et al)
9   8+2 mins Astrometry of ICRF Sources... (Camargo et al)
10 18+2 mins J-MAPS (Gaume)
11 13+2 mins The Wavelet Search for Stellar Clusters in NOMAD (Kumkova et al)

Posters :

Significant radio-optical reference frame offsets from CTIO data
    Zacharias, M.I. et al.
Astrometric surveys 2000 to 2020 
    Erik Hoeg
Posters should be displayed in the poster area that is on the First Floor.

Please visit
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/iau_comm8/iau27/science.html
for more details.

Irina Kumkova                                        Dafydd Wyn Evans
President of Commission 8                            Vice-President of Commission 8