XXIV General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union

Joint Discussion 6 on "Applied Historical Astronomy"

Manchester, UK, August 11, 2000

Proposing Commission: C 41 (History of Astronomy)
Participating Commissions: 4 (Ephemerides), 19 (Rotation of the Earth), 20 (Positions and Motions of Minor Planets, Comets and Satellites)
Supporting Divisions: Division I (Fundamental Astronomy), Division II (The Sun and Heliosphere), Division III (Planetary System Sciences)

Scientific Organizing Committee: Richard Stephenson (UK, Chair), S. Ansari (India), S. Dick (USA), O. Gingerich (USA), M. Hoskin (UK), Nha Il-Seong (South Korea), W. Orchiston (New Zealand), M. Standish (USA), W. T. Sullivan III (USA), D. Yeomans (USA)

Editors of Proceedings: F.R. Stephenson & S.J. Dick

Contact address: F.R. Stephenson, Dept of Physics, University of Durham, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, UK Tel.: +44 191 374 2153+; Fax: +44 191 374 3749; E-mail: f.r.stephenson@durham.ac.uk

Program

a.m. Chair: Steven J. Dick
9.00 F. Richard Stephenson (UK): Overview
9.20 David Brown (UK): "Babylonian observations"
9.40 F. Richard Stephenson (UK): "East Asian observations"
10.00 Louay J. Fatoohi (UK): "Arab observations"
10.20 Discussion
10.30 Coffee
10.40 Wayne Orchiston (New Zealand): "Southern Hemisphere Observations"
11.00 S. M. Razaullah Ansari (India): "Practical astronomy in Indo-Persian sources"
11.20 E. Myles Standish (USA): "Early observations and modern ephemerides"
11.40 Y. B. Kolesnik (Russia): "Secular variation of planetary orbital elements"
12.00 J. M. Brooke et al. (UK): The importance of spatial information in sunspot records
12.20 Discussion
12.30 Lunch

p.m. Chair: F. Richard Stephenson
14.00 Leslie V. Morrison (UK): "Ancient eclipses and Earth's rotation"
14.20 Dennis D. McCarthy (USA): "Earth orientation since AD 1600"
14.40 Donald K. Yeomans (USA): "Creating cometary models using ancient Chinese data"
15.00 Mark E. Bailey (Ireland): "Historical variability of the interplanetary complex"
15.20 D. V. Hoyt (USA): "Early Telescopic Sunspot Records"
15.40 Discussion
16.00 David W. Hughes (UK): "Comet fluxes: an indicator of historic astronomical activity"
16.20 David M. Willis et al. (UK): "Scientific interpretation of historical auroral records"
16.40 David A. Green (UK): "The remnants of historical supernovae"
17.00 Discussion
17.15 W. T. Sullivan (USA): Overview
17.30 Close

Abstracts of talks

Poster papers

The Transit of Venus of 1874: the Italian mission to Muddapur in the south-east of India: L. Pigatto et al. (Italy)
Observations from Sarmizegetusa Sanctuary: M. Barbosu (Romania)
Dyonisius Exiguus - the Father of the Christian Era Was Born in Romanian Territory: Magda Stavinschi (Romania)
History of cometary exploration at Kyiv University: K. I. Churyumov (Ukraine)
Akademische Sternkarten, Berlin 1830-59: D.H.P. Jones (UK)
History of Astronomy in Ukraine: A. Korsun (Ukraine)
Data revision of Babylonian and Arabian lunar and solar eclipse observations used in Newcomb's researches: V. Protitch-Benishek et al. (Yugoslavia)

Abstracts of posters

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