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1 NEON Observing School 2007 Text Asiago, Italy Gabriel Szász1 1 Astrophysics Division, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, MU, Kotlářská 2, CZ Brno, The Czech Republic

2 Outline I. Introduction II. Site III. Organizers IV. Lectures V. Projects VI. Red Sequence search... VII. Social Events VIII. Conclusions 1/10

3 Introduction I. NEON Observing Schools Organized by: Network of European Observatories in the North Consortium Asiago Observatory Calar Alto Observatory ESO Headquarters Haute-Provence Observatory La Palma Observatories European Astronomical Society OPTICON Financial Support: European Community (Marie Curie Action) 2/10

4 Introduction I. Previous NEON Schools Old Series st Observing School (Calar Alto) nd Observing School (Haute-Provence) rd Observing School (Asiago) st Archival School (ESO) New Series th Observing School (Calar Alto) th Observing School (Haute-Provence) nd Archival School (ESO) th Observing School (Asiago) Incoming NEON Schools th Observing School (La Palma) rd Archival School (ESO) 2/10

5 Site II. 3/10

6 Organizers III. Michel Dennefeld Institute for Astrophysics in Paris European Astronomical Society OPTICON NEON Steering Committee Alessandro Pizzella Department of Astronomy, University of Padova INAF Astronomical Observatory of the University of Padova Astrophysical Observatory of Asiago 4/10

7 Lectures Low dispersion spectroscopy (M. Dennefeld) Photometry (S. Ortolani) Basics of telescope optics (C. Barbieri) High-resolution spectroscopy (R. Gratton) Polarimetry (E. Giro) Introduction to SDSS (J. Brinchman) IV. Multi-wavelength science with archives (H. Kuntschner) Image analysis (R. Hook) ESO instrumentation and future projects (S. D'Odorico) Cometary physics (U. Keller) Careers in astronomy (H. Kuntschner) 5/10

8 Projects 20 participants 5 projects V. projects were not related to theses topics The surroundings of a fossil group tutor: Christophe Adami Red Sequence Search for Galaxy Clusters tutor: Jörg Dietrich High resolution echelle spectroscopy and stellar chemical analysis tutor: Luca Sbordone Polarimetry of galaxies tutor: Enrico Giro Novae in M 31 tutor: Francesco Di Mille 6/10

9 Red Sequence Search... VI. Cluster Red Sequence (Gladders & Yee 2000) 7/10

10 Red Sequence Search... VI. Target: Abell 115 Cluster q...very bad result. 8/10

11 Social Events Trip to Asiago Trip to Bassano del Grappa VII. 9/10

12 Conclusions VIII. NEON Observing School is unique opportunity for young graduate students to get familiar with stateof-the-art astrophysical instruments. The purpose of school is to encourage interoperability of the European observatories in the northern hemisphere. The school is fully covered by European Community (Maria Curie Action) References: The 6th NEON Observing School: Information on incoming NEON Schools: /10

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