nano-statellites for astrophysicists https://brite-constellation.at From August 20 - 23, 2024, the conference “The BRITE Side of Stars: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of BRITE-Constellation” will take place in Vienna, Austria. For more information see https://britestars.univie.ac.at/home/. Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2024-03-19-BRITESide-Conference/ https://brite-constellation.at/2024-03-19-BRITESide-Conference/ As of January 1, 2024, Gerald Handler is the Chair and Catherine Lovekin is the vice-chair of BRITE-Constellation. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0800 https://brite-constellation.at/2024-01-01-New_Chair/ https://brite-constellation.at/2024-01-01-New_Chair/ As of January 1, 2022, Catherine Lovekin is the Chair and Gerald Handler is the vice-chair of BRITE-Constellation. Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0800 https://brite-constellation.at/2022-01-17-New_Chair/ https://brite-constellation.at/2022-01-17-New_Chair/ Due to technical issues, the old photometry wiki is not up-to-date any longer. We have moved all relevant information to the new site of the BRITE Constellation Wiki: http://brite-wiki.astro.uni.wroc.pl/bwiki/doku.php?id=start Please use this as a reference for targets included in BRITE fields and for the information about publications with BRITE data.... Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2020-05-12-New_Bylaws_New_Wiki/ https://brite-constellation.at/2020-05-12-New_Bylaws_New_Wiki/ A warm welcome to our new non-voting BRITE Executive Science Team members Saskia Hekker (MPS, Germany), Paul Beck (Graz, Austria) and Sergio Simon-Diaz (IAC Tenerife, Spain)! We also welcome Catherine Lovekin and Nicole St-John in their new roles as voting members in the Canadian team. We express our gratitude to... Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0800 https://brite-constellation.at/2020-01-09-New_Voting_and_NonVoting_Members/ https://brite-constellation.at/2020-01-09-New_Voting_and_NonVoting_Members/ As of January 1, 2020, Konstanze Zwintz is the chair and Gerald Handler is the vice-chair of BRITE-Constellation. Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0800 https://brite-constellation.at/2020-01-09-New_Chair-ViceChair/ https://brite-constellation.at/2020-01-09-New_Chair-ViceChair/ The BRITE Executive Science Team has changed the data access policy: all data starting from field 48 will be made available to the public immediately without any proprietary period through the BRITE Public Data Archive. Accordingly, a new version of the BRITE Bylaws is available here (as of Nov 25,... Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0800 https://brite-constellation.at/2020-01-09-New_Bylaws/ https://brite-constellation.at/2020-01-09-New_Bylaws/ A warm welcome to our new non-voting BRITE Executive Science Team member, Dominic Bowman (KU Leuven)! Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2019-10-07-DominicBowman/ https://brite-constellation.at/2019-10-07-DominicBowman/ Check what BRITE-Constellation has achieved since the start of the mission in 2013! Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2019-03-20-BRITE_Statistics/ https://brite-constellation.at/2019-03-20-BRITE_Statistics/ As of August 28, 2018, a new version of the Bylaws Document is available as well as an updated version of the footnote required for publications. More information can be found here. Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2018-09-05-New_Bylaws/ https://brite-constellation.at/2018-09-05-New_Bylaws/ 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: Stars and their Variability, observed from Space:celebrating the 5thanniversary of BRITE-Constellation More information can be found here. Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2018-04-20-Conference_announcement/ https://brite-constellation.at/2018-04-20-Conference_announcement/ Since 1 January 2018 BRITE-Constellation has a new chair, Gregg Wade, and vice-chair, Konstanze Zwintz. We are immensely grateful to the great work the previous chair, Andrzej Pigulski, has done together with his vice-chair, Gregg Wade. Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0800 https://brite-constellation.at/2018-01-24-Change_chair_vice_chair/ https://brite-constellation.at/2018-01-24-Change_chair_vice_chair/ 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) Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2017-09-20-Early_history_BRITE/ https://brite-constellation.at/2017-09-20-Early_history_BRITE/ 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. Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2017-09-06-Offer_spectroscopic_observations/ https://brite-constellation.at/2017-09-06-Offer_spectroscopic_observations/ 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... Sat, 27 May 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2017-05-27-BRITE_Austria_Orion/ https://brite-constellation.at/2017-05-27-BRITE_Austria_Orion/ The Third BRITE-Constellation Science Conference will be held at Auberge du Lac Taureau in Quebec, Canada, from August 7 to 10, 2017. Registration is now open! More information can be found on the conference webpage here: https://brite2017.craq-astro.ca Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2017-03-28-Third_BRITE_SciCon/ https://brite-constellation.at/2017-03-28-Third_BRITE_SciCon/ We have selected new targets for ground-based amateur and professional observers for the period until about March 2017. Please find the corresponding table for download on the GBOT – Cooperations subpage. Any observer interested to collect data of these objects is most welcome to contact the corresponding BRITE scientist listed... Thu, 13 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2016-10-13-New_targets_ground_based/ https://brite-constellation.at/2016-10-13-New_targets_ground_based/ Dear Colleagues, From 07.11. to 17.11.2016, I will observe at the 60cm telescope in Tatranska Lomnica (Slovakia). The telescope is equipped with an Echelle spectrograph which gives spectra between 4400A and 7600A with a resolution of about 12 000. A complete documentation of that instrument and telescope can be found... Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2016-09-23-GBOT_offer/ https://brite-constellation.at/2016-09-23-GBOT_offer/ Marek Skarka (marek.skarka@csfk.mta.hu) offers to take spectroscopic observations for BRITE targets with the 1-m telescope equipped with the ACE spectrograph (R=20000) at Piszkesteto observatory in Hungary between 20. and 27. October, 2016. Marek offers to observe BRITE targets in the second part of each night if there is a good... Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2016-09-13-Offer_spectroscopic_observation/ https://brite-constellation.at/2016-09-13-Offer_spectroscopic_observation/ On Aug 23, 2016, we took the conference picture of all the participants of the Second BRITE-Constellation Science Conference in front of the “Jesuitenkirche” in Innsbruck, Austria. Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0700 https://brite-constellation.at/2016-09-02-Second_BRITE_Conference/ https://brite-constellation.at/2016-09-02-Second_BRITE_Conference/