We are currently planning an international conference in Vienna, one year after the IAU General Assembly, from August 19 to 23, 2019, with the title:
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January 2018: Change of Chair / Vice-Chair
Since 1 January 2018 BRITE-Constellation has a new chair, Gregg Wade, and vice-chair, Konstanze Zwintz.
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The early history of BRITE (by Slavek Rucinski)
Read about the early history of the BRITE project as viewed by Science
Team member Slavek Rucinski: The early history of the BRITE project (pdf)
Sep 6, 2017: Offer for spectroscopic observations by Ernst Paunzen
Starting with Friday Sep 8, 2017, Ernst Paunzen will observe at Stara Lesna (Tatranska Lomnica) with the 60cm telescope for two weeks. He offers the opportunity for observations for the BRITE consortium. If someone needs spectroscopy, he/she should contact Ernst Paunzen directly.
May 27, 2017 – Watch BRITE-Austria pass a small field in Orion
The fantastic animation below shows a sequence of 20 images of a 10′ x 9′ field with center coordinates RA = 5:36:43 and DE = +13:15.5 taken on April 9, 2016, with the Andor iXon X3 EMCCD camera attached to the PST2 70-cm telescope in Winer Observatory, Arizona, and operated...
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