Astronomy for Amateurs

Abstract:

System, man and Cybernetics society in coorganization with Astronomical society Osijek presents an interesting, wide-population oriented, lecture on topic of astronomy in non-professional, amateur, use. The lecture gives a glimpse on amateur astronomy and its role in scientific interpretation of astronomical events and objects identification and monitoring. Amateur astronomy evolve and growth, alongside of rapid technology development, more and more and becomes a interesting sidekick and partner to proffessional astronomers. On the other side amateurs got, by adopting new knowledge and new technology, useful tools and developed new procedures in space objects research. This lecture will also stress a bit more on the topic of data acquisition techniques and on building and developing a network of robotic telescop observatories that are backbone of today space gazing and measurement efforts required in space observation.

Biography:

Dalibor Mesarić graduated on Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb, University of Zagreb, and got degree in field of radio-communication. Since graduation he worked on numerous jobs related to the development of computer networks and applications, and on development and structuring of telecomunication systems. Since 2011 he is a professional associate on Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Osijek, University of Osijek. Mesarić develops and nurishes interest to the amateur astronomy since its youth. Besides optical telescope survey and photography he developed different kind of astronomical instruments, telscopes, spectroscopes, telescope embedded systems and radio telescopes. He is founder of Astronomical society Osijek and is its president in period of 1996 to 2016. Late years deals and gives great effort in popularization of astronomy among youth and currently is occupied with setting-up first amateur robotic observatory for promotion and popularization of astronomy in public.

Accessing info:

The lectures are free of charge and publicly available. Due to the still present and threatening pandemic sitation regarding CoViD all atendees have to be complied to 2G rule (to have valid COVID pass or negative PCR test not older than 48hrs). Furthermore, all visitors/atendees have to keep its distance to other visitors and obey to the rules of good practice and recommendation against CoViD suppression.

For those who are interested to lecture and not been able to attend it is organized an on-line live cast video of a lecture and presentation materials. A link for on-line access is given below.

Link: https://teams.live.com/meet/9458223594060