Participants
| Name | Surname | Affiliation | Task | Position |
| Igor | Kudzej | Vihorlat Observatory | O | |
| Martin | Ambrus | KHaP MH Žiar nad Hronom | 3. SR | R |
| Tomáš | Dobrovodský | KHaP MH Žiar nad Hronom | 3. SR | R |
| Juraj | Danko | Gymnázium v Snine | 4. O-C EB | R |
| Marianna | Hronovská | 4. O-C EB | R | |
| Dávid | Bodnár | PF UPJŠ | 6. Model EB | R |
| Miroslav | Fedurco | PF UPJŠ | 6. Model EB | R |
| Patryk | Iwanek | OA UJ | 6. Model EB | R |
| Paulina | Sowicka | OA UJ & MOA Niepołomice | 6. Model EB | R |
| Klaudia | Zięba | 7. Superhumps | R | |
| Sebastian | Piorecki | Bolestraszyce, Polsko | 8. Cepheids | R |
| Filip | Sowa | Brwinow, Polsko | 8. Cepheids | R |
| Bartlomiej | Debski | OA UJ | 6. Model EB | S |
| Stefan | Parimucha | PF UPJŠ | 6. Model EB | ST |
| Marcin | Cikala | Lubomir Observatory | 7. Superhumps | S |
| Sęk | Grzegorz | MOA Niepołomice | 8. Cepheids | ST |
| Pavol A. | Dubovský | Vihorlat Observatory | 3. SR; 4.O-C EB | ST |
| Matúš | Kamenec | Vihorlat Observatory | T | |
| legend: | S = | Supervisor | ||
| T = | Operator, technical assistant | |||
| R = | Researcher | |||
| O = | Organizer |
Presentation
Report
The astrocammp was organized by the Vihorlat Observatory in cooperation with the Podduklianske Educational Centre in Svidník at the observatory in Kolonica. Co-organizers were the Slovak Association of Astronomers, the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the UPJŠ in Košice, the Non-Investment Fund Teleskop. The event took place from 21 to 30 July 2014. A diverse group of people from Slovakia and Poland met here, whose common interest is variable stars. The 19 participants included professional astronomers, astronomy students, but also amateur astronomers and members of astronomy clubs from primary and secondary schools.
The content of the Variable astrocamp is to solve research tasks that participants choose from the offered list. Of the nine prepared assignments, 5 were finally solved: Semiregular variable stars, O-C diagram of eclipsing binary stars, Model of binary stars, Superhumps and Cepheids. In addition, a group from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of UPJŠ Košice worked on putting a new 0.5-meter telescope into operation. The research teams benefited from data they practically observed using telescopes at the observatory. However, they also had to resort to the use of archival data, because the weather was not very conducive to practical observations. Only 3 nights were usable. The output of each team was a final presentation. All of them were presented at a mini-seminar on the last evening of the astrocamp. The level of presentations was really high.
RNDr. Igor Kudzej, CSc.
Director of the Vihorlat Observatory in Humenné
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