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2011 GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN VALLADOLID

CEL FOSC ASSOCIATION AGAINST LIGHT POLLUTION (Registration No. 585 161 National Associations) is an independent, nonprofit and state level, founded in 2004. It represents more than 5,000 people and is the association of reference in Spain for the fight against light pollution. Its aims are:

• study the phenomenon of light pollution and its effects,

• promote awareness and dissemination of the problems involved in light pollution,

• promote awareness and dissemination of solutions to pollution Light,

• actions aimed at minimizing light pollution, and

• ensure that compliance with the legislation regulating the lighting at night to avoid light pollution.

Cel Fosc Association (Dark Sky) held Saturday, February 12, its Annual General Meeting in the facilities of the Science Museum of Valladolid. There we met, around 12 am, 16 people from throughout the English territory (Galicia, Basque Country, Navarra, Andalusia, Catalonia, Castilla y León). It should be noted that several of the assembly members spent part of the night journey to reach on time. My partner Amelia Gomez and I attended as representatives of the Astronomical Society Syrma of Valladolid, and my colleague, who did Fernando Cabrerizo as Coordinator of Castile and Leon Cel Fosc. After welcoming remarks by Inés Rodríguez Hidalgo, director of the Museum of Science, the meeting began at 12:30 hours as scheduled in the program. The morning session was extended until 2 in the afternoon, when we made a break for lunch in the restaurant of the museum. After coffee began the afternoon session, perhaps the most feared by the usual soporific effects of the previous intake. However, in my opinion, the evening went so lively and dynamic that led to yawn.

A moment of the Assembly. In the background the Board miempros Cel Fosc coordinating the meeting. Image Credit: Fernando Cabrerizo.

were diverse topics covered in the meeting, assessing the activities carried out last year and debate new proposals for this work in 2011. Not go into details of the findings and agreements determined by the assembly, but generally addressed all agenda items, which are exposed in the press release that the board offered to the media . I leave here a summary of the text of that note:

"Dark Sky Association, Pollution Light will hold its 2011 General Assembly on Saturday February 12 at the Science Museum of Valladolid. The meeting will discuss the current situation of light pollution in Spain as regulations in force or pending, based largely on the system, obsolete zoning of the territory with different rates of emission of light allowed into heaven.

Dark Sky opposes this trend, because the effectiveness of these regulations for the prevention of light pollution has been refuted by scientific studies latest in this field. These results, published in journals and international conferences are being inexplicably ignored by the majority of parliaments and regional governments, including the recent law enacted in Castilla and León in 2010 which came into force on January 10 (*) - as well as by major municipalities, with the exception of Andalusia, which currently holds the pioneering application of rules in Spain that does not allow the emission of light into the sky (where there is nothing to illuminate).

Meanwhile, in a crisis government budget, light pollution implies a huge waste of energy for lighting every night, with a per capita consumption in Spain than three times that of Germany. The abrupt replacement of lighting on a massive new white light lighting based on LED technology that promotes lighting industry sector (despite being still under development and industrial standardization) is far from being considered at the same level as other technologies existing, proven and contributes to worsen the problem by their serious implications for health, conservation of biodiversity and degradation of the night sky as an educational, scientific and tourism.

The assembly of the Dark Sky Association this year is a continuation in the celebration of these annual meetings at the headquarters of prestigious flagship for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and astronomy in Spain, as they have been in the past the Planetarium of Pamplona (Navarra), the European Space Astronomy Centre at Villafranca del Castillo (Madrid) and now the Science Museum of Valladolid.

(*) Law 15/2010, of December 10 of Light Pollution Prevention and Promotion of Saving and Energy Efficiency Lighting Installations Derivados de Castilla y León

assembly was closed around 18:15 pm. It was the moment for the typical family photo, that of the goodbyes and handshakes and wanting a good travel companions. On a personal level was a pleasure to meet in person to the vast majority of the attendees, people extremely active and involved in the issue of light pollution. And, of course, back to greet Ángel Gómez Roldán (Director of Astronomy magazine) and astrophysicists Fernando Jauregui (Pamplona Planetarium) and David Galadi-Enríquez (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, CSIC). Here.

assembly participants posing with Professor Einstein. Image Credit: Fernando Cabrerizo.

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FOSC CEL BINARIES OUTIDE INSIDE AND THE LOCAL BUBBLE Interstellar ( INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BINARIES)

Santiago de Compostela meets over the next two days at the most prominent professional doubles player in the world. The event has been named to Binaries Outide Inside and the Local Interstellar Bubble (International Workshop on Binaries) and can be considered as a continuation to another similar meeting held two years ago: 2009 Binary Workshop of Similarly organized by the Centre RM Aller. Besides the invited talks, this time other astronomers working in this area will also have the opportunity to present their current research. The Chairman of the Scientific Organizing Committee is none other than José Ángel Docobo Durántez, Director of the Observatory Ramón María Aller, President of the Commission 26 of the International Astronomical Union (double stars) ; and perhaps the most prestigious English professional doubles player. The conference is sponsored by the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

The list of participants is to discover a selection of the most famous double star astronomers worldwide, until I dare say unrepeatable. Even go as guests Brian Mason and William Hartkopf on behalf of the USNO, as you know two living icons for us amateurs, and both are doing for the Pro-Am collaboration.

I have consulted the program interventions and is extremely interesting. So much so that until the last moment, my intention was to attend this meeting, if not with official registration, at least as a visitor. Unfortunately, as I did with the meeting of Sabadell, my work obligations prevent me from doing it again. A real shame but it is what has not devoted to astronomy full time. Even with Brian Mason had mentioned my intention to attend and we talked about that would be a very good chance to know personally. Anyway, at least it is the notion that having great are a few miles and they are living two incredible days. Here.

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During the observation of double stars abandoned (Neglected) is common to find other weak components are not scheduled at times appear to be associated physically with the major components. While it is not the primary objective of these observations, it is certain that it is interesting to report them in articles reporting the comments. Often, being faint stars, there are few data in the literature and although it is difficult to ensure the physical relationship, we can not rule it out. Regular observations of the new components, with a scheduled follow-up help tip the balance giving weight (forgive the metaphor) to one or other of the two cases. That's why, in my point of view, it should label such new stars as new components of existing systems, as well as have them be controlled, we might say and properly documented in terms of measurements that will be done regularly.

Work double stars, is working in a multigenerational campaign. I mean that the measurements made by historical observers, along with ours and that made the next generations of observers, will form a data volume that can be exploited in the future to draw relevant conclusions. Each and every one of us, with our modest contribution will be helping to flesh out a database developed over several hundred years. When we're gone, others will use our observations, the same way we now use the pioneer. Perhaps that is specific magic that surrounds the double stars: several generations of observers providing partial results in search of an end result that probably will not see. I do not think there is as altruistic as this field in observational astronomy. My words are very well summarized in a sentence of Ejnar Hertzsprung (1961): "The debt to our ancestors by the comments made on our behalf, we can only afford to do the same for the benefit of our successors" . What more could you want.

According to this philosophy and back to the beginning, in my remarks of 2009 on Stein's double stars, most of them long neglected, found four new domestic partners (close to any of the listed components) for other many ITS systems. To these must be added another pair, independent and completely new, located in one of the fields recorded in my images. Well, these couples were included in my unpublished article and proposals for inclusion in WDS. You can find all details in PDF this work published, as already announced, the OED number 6.

In two of these pairs, the optical train installed on my observation did not allow sufficiently precise measurements on my images and so enlisted the help of my colleague and friend Florent Losse so that, as a personal favor, to conduct the measurements with a telescope of 400 mm (GIFT , GI ant F Lorent's T elescope). Another example of generosity and altruism: Florent, thanks for your valuable help!.

Florent Losse Observatory in St. Pardon de Conques, France, with its excellent telescope. Courtesy of Florent Losse.

a few days ago I received an email from Brian Mason in which I communicated that it had included all pairs proposed in WDS. These are the respective entries:

During the drafting of article I had no notion of the existence of MRI 7 ( see previous post) and named as one of the new MRI 7AC. Finally, it has been listed by Brian Mason as MRI 11AC.

then I leave the pictures of all systems with some comments.

New STI2610 component. Left: MRI image OACP 5AC in 2009. Right: Superposition of two plates. Possi blue-O (1952), 2MASS-K White (1999). The small movement of the pair seems to be common.

New STI2753 component. Above: Left , MRI 8BC to the resolution of our instruments. In the center a three-dimensional mathematical modeling performed with the Surface software based on our images. Right: Composition of two images showing the stable elongation of the pair BC: orange, Possi-O (1952), white, 2MASS-H (1997). Below: Florent Losse pictures taken in 2010. Left: composite image in the spatial domain (shift and add). Centre: autocorrelograms on who carried out the measurements. Right: image croscorrelación to reject the ambiguity of 180 ° in position angle. The interferometric images were made with the new version of NR is now capable of supporting these techniques.

Left: MRI image from 9 to our instrumental resolution taken in 2009. Centre: Florent Losse image taken in November 2010. Right: composition of two old-blue images, Possi-O (1952) and in fuchsia 2MASS-J (1997) -. The pair is not resolved on these boards but there is clear evidence of common proper motion components. Superimposed, the proper motion vector set by the values \u200b\u200bof UCAC3.

New STI2768 component. Left: MRI an image OACP 10BC 2009. Right: Overlay two plates. Possi blue-O (1952), 2MASS-H White (1997). The small movement of the pair seems to be common.

New STI2683 component. Left: MRI an image 11AC OACP 2009. Right: Overlay two plates. Possi blue-O (1952), 2MASS-H White (1997). The small movement of the pair seems to be common.

Anyway, do not deny that these gifts are a great incentive for a professional observer can take more be hard if the next seasons of observation. Always, of course, with the priority background measurement of double stars discovered abandoned generations ago. In the course of this goes on and on circumstantial I often wonder who will do the same with my eleven MRIs. Here.