Programme and materials
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Arrival of the participants, hotel accommodation
9:00 – 17:00 – possibility of visiting International Power Industry Fair ENERGETAB 2012 – the biggest in central Europe fair of energetic and lighting (www.energetab.eu)
Friday, September 14, 2012
(media day)
8:00 – 9:00 registration
9:00 – 10:40 opening session
9:00 – 9:15 Opening addresses
9:15 – 9:30 Julia Romanowska & Piotr Nawalkowski: Dark sky protection area
CN-001 in Sopotnia Wielka (PDF 10,8MB).
9:30 – 9:45 Sylwester Kołomański: Izera Dark-Sky Park (PDF 13,5MB)
9:45 – 10:00 Piotr Michałek: Light Pollution (PDF 230KB)
10:00 – 10:15 Grzegorz Sanetra: Local strategy of development and dark sky
(PDF 3,35MB)
10:15 – 10:40 Jakub Suchecki: Boyen6 system in Sopotnia Wielka (PDF 2,77MB)
10:40 – 11:00 coffee break
11:00 – 12:35 1st session
11:25 – 11:50 Paul Marchant: Estimating the effect of new street lightning on the occurrence of different types of crime (PDF 467KB)
11:50 – 12:10 Andrej Mohar: Lighting Reconstruction in Lastovo Island (PDF 5,76MB)
12:10 – 12:35 Janne Rinne: Light pollution in Finland – a web survey on public perceptions (PDF 387KB)
12:45 – 13:45 Light pollution broad spectrum – a lecture and press conference for media and local authorities
lecture will be given by Friedel Pas – IDA European Liaison Officer
12:35 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 – 15:30 2nd session
14:00 – 14:25 Andrea Giacomelli: Participatory night sky monitoring in Italy: progress since the Osnabrück symposium and outlook for 2013 (PDF 1,74MB)
14:25 – 14:50 Marty Haaima: Results from the Dutch Night Sky Brightness Monitoring Network (PDF 14,2MB)
14:50 – 15:10 Andreas Haenel: 6.5 years of sky brightness measurements – experiences and conclusions (PDF 9,86MB)
15:10 – 15:30 Kai Pong Tong: Results of international SQM survey campaign 2011 and the implication to possible ecological impact (PDF 6,04MB)
15:30 – 15:50 coffee break
15:50 – 18:10 3rd session
15:50 – 16:20 Pavol Ďuriš: Eastern Carpathian (Poloniny and Bieszczady) Dark-Sky Parks (PDF 3,94MB)
16:20 – 16:40 Jan Kondziolka: Beskydy Dark-Sky Park (PDF 1,76MB)
16:40 – 17:10 Andreas Haenel: Star Parks in Germany – towards a sustainable protection of the night (PDF 25,7MB)
17:10 – 17:40 Günther Wuchterl: Alpine Starlight, Starlight Oasis, Reserves and World Heritage (PDF 29,8MB)
18:20 – 22:00 social event
Bus trip to the dark-sky protection area CN-001 in Sopotnia Wielka and supper in ‘Stara Karczma’ in Jeleśnia; return to Bielsko-Biala.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
9:00 – 9:55 4th session
9:00 – 9:15 Nobuaki Ochi: Dark-sky education and the public’s trend in Japan
9:15 – 9:35 Grzegorz Żakowicz: School Workshops on Astronomy
9:35 – 9:55 Tomasz Mrozek: Kordylewski clouds: the observational objects for the most ambitious (PDF 1,46MB)
9:55 – 10:15 coffee break
10:15 – 11:50 5th session
10:15 – 10:45 Tomasz Ściężor: Long terms changes in the level of the artificial sky glow as the form of the light pollution (PDF 3,44MB)
10:45 – 11:10 Jan Hollan: Measuring both strong and faint light and understanding the quantities
11:10 – 11:30 Christopher Kyba: Aerial measurement of the upward angular distribution of emitted artificial light over Berlin, Germany at 10,000 ft
11:30 – 11:50 Günther Wuchterl: Origin and energy content of city light domes from Lightmeter measurements (PDF 12,8MB)
11:50 – 13:30 lunch
13:30 – 15:00 6th session
13:30 – 13:45 Christopher Kyba: Official adoption of a standard format for measurements of sky glow (PDF 287KB)
13:45 – 15:00 Measuring darkness - discussion/workshop on metrology conducted by Günther Wuchterl
15:00 – 15:20 coffee break
15:20 – 18:00 7th session
15:20 – 15:40 Jan Hollan: Let’s stand up and say: light at night is a pollutant
15:40 – 16:05 Bob Parks: The future of night sky protection (PDF 25,4MB)
16:05 – 17:00 Towards darker future – general discussion on plans and future actions
17:00 – 17:20 Fernando Jauregui: Presentation of the venue of the next symposium (PDF 3,91MB)
17:20 – 18:00 Friedel Pass: Summary of the symposium (IDA Europe Update and award ceremony) (PDF 23,2MB)
18:00 – 20:00 free time
20:00 – 22:00 social event
Official ending of the conference – banquet in restaurant in Bielsko-Biala (15 minutes walk from the symposium venue).