The 44th AKM meeting of the Working Group Meteore e.V. will take place from March 15 to 17, 2024 at the Sonneberg Observatory and will be held simultaneously as an interactive online event . Accommodation on site will be at the Outdoor Inn Sonneberg .
Invitation to the AKM Meeting 2024
Option 1: On-site participation
Conference Fee:
- Single Room: fully booked
- Double Room: fully booked
- Shared Room: fully booked
- Day Guests: 90 € (with catering, without breakfast)
- Day Guests: 25 € (without catering)
The conference fee includes two nights with bed linen, full catering from Friday evening to Sunday noon, coffee on Saturday, and the rental for conference rooms.
The entire Outdoor Inn is available exclusively to AKM during the mentioned time. There is table tennis, foosball, a bouldering wall, a play meadow, a panoramic terrace, and a campfire site. There are sinks in each room. The toilets are communal.
Payment of the conference fee:
Please transfer the conference fee in advance to the association's account. You can find the bank details on our homepage or directly after submitting the registration form.
Option 2: Online Participation
The event will also take place as a Zoom meeting. The access data will be sent to all registered participants by email.
Participation in the online event is free.
Program:
The program will include contributions from all subfields of the AKM (Meteors, Fireballs and Meteorites, Halos, Polar Lights, Noctilucent Clouds and other atmospheric phenomena).
General Assembly:
The General Assembly will take place on Saturday, 16.03.2024. (Time will be announced)
Registration
Registered Participants
| Name | Location | On site | Online |
| Rainer Arlt | Ludwigsfelde | x | |
| Yves Bastian | x | ||
| Manfred Bauch | x | ||
| Felix Bettonvil | x | ||
| Bert Bresien | x | ||
| Günther Busch | Gotha | x | |
| Ismail Çarkacı | x | ||
| Frank Dietel | Chemnitz | x | |
| Clara Dittié | Königswinter | x | |
| Georg Dittié | Königswinter | x | |
| Frank Enzlein | Ahrensfelde | (x) | |
| Christian Fenn | Hammelburg | x | |
| Luise Fenn | Hammelburg | x | |
| Kevin Förster | Chemnitz | (x) | |
| Thomas Frach | x | ||
| Peter Geffert | x | ||
| Mario Gromke | x | ||
| Lars Günther | x | ||
| Wolfgang Hamburg | Bernitt | x | |
| Werner Hasubick | Buchloe | x | |
| Alexander Haußmann | Hörlitz | x | |
| Ingo Herkstroeter | x | ||
| Carl Herzog | Idstein | x | |
| Wolfgang Hinz | Schwarzenberg | (x) | |
| Jost Jahn | x | ||
| Christian Jeschek | x | ||
| Mario | Berlin | (x) | |
| Karl Kaiser | x | ||
| Björn Kattentidt | Neutraubling | x | |
| Erich Keller | x | ||
| Markus Kempf | x | ||
| Alexander Keul | x | ||
| Thomas Klein | Mitterteich | (x) | |
| Bernd Klemt | x | ||
| André Knöfel | Lindenberg | x | |
| Michael Kobusch | x | ||
| Angelika Kolb-Telieps | x | ||
| Jörgen Konrad | x | ||
| Peter Kroll | Sonneberg | (x) | |
| Raimund Kronig | x | ||
| Ansgar Kuhl | x | ||
| Johann Lagler | x | ||
| Roger Leifert | x | ||
| Katrin Lindner | Hoyerswerda | x | |
| Peter Lindner | Hoyerswerda | x | |
| Hartwig Lüthen | x | ||
| Mahta Mansouri | x | ||
| Bernd Mathis | x | ||
| Stefan Meister | x | ||
| Uwe Meister | x | ||
| Christian Merz | x | ||
| Petra Mayer | x | ||
| Andreas Möller | Berlin | x | |
| Sirko Molau | Seysdorf | x | |
| Thomas Müller | x | ||
| Blandina Nemeth | x | ||
| Reinhard Neul | x | ||
| Stefan Neumann | x | ||
| Reinhard Nitze | x | ||
| Thomas Osthoff | Düsseldorf | x | |
| Thomas Petermann | x | ||
| Andreas Pfoser | x | ||
| Christa Plassak | x | ||
| Jonas Plum | x | ||
| Frank Rauschenbach | x | ||
| Ina Rendtel | Potsdam | (x) | |
| Jürgen Rendtel | Potsdam | x | |
| Manuela Rendtel | Potsdam | x | |
| Elmar Schmidt | Bad Schönborn | x | |
| Andreas Schönfeld-Pahlke | x | ||
| Hans Schremmer | x | ||
| Miyuki Shishido | x | ||
| Erwin Späni | x | ||
| Ulrich Sperberg | Salzwedel | x | |
| Jörg Strunk | Herford | x | |
| Petra Strunk | Herford | x | |
| Verena Tießen | x | ||
| Axel Trettin | x | ||
| Sylvia Voss | x | ||
| Frank Wächter | Radebeul | x | |
| Sabine Wächter | Radebeul | x | |
| Burkhard Wiche | x | ||
| Kurt Wunsch | x |
Preliminary Program
| Time | Title | Speaker | |
| Friday | |||
| 20:00 | Opening of the AKM meeting | Sirko Molau | |
| 20:10 | 2024 BX1: a fireball announced in advance | Andreas Möller, Sirko Molau | |
| Saturday | |||
| 09:00 | Circumhorizontal arcs 2023 | Elmar Schmidt | |
| 09:15 | Halos 2023: results of the systematic halo observation | Wolfgang Hinz | |
| 09:45 | Halos on fireballs | Alexander Haußmann | |
| 10:40 | Experiments with a new all sky camera | Georg Dittié | |
| 11:10 | Meteors 2023 in the eye of the observer | Jürgen Rendtel | |
| 14:00 | Presentation of the observatory | Peter Kroll | |
| 14:45 | Tour of the astronomy museum and the plate archive | ||
| 16:00 | Model and observations of the visual limiting magnitude in the day and night sky | Elmar Schmidt | |
| 16:15 | New findings on the flux density measurement of meteors | Sirko Molau | |
| 16:45 | Subrelativistic meteors | Peter Kroll | |
| 17:10 | Encounters in the field | Jürgen Rendtel | |
| 17:30 | General meeting | ||
| 20:00 | Capra saltans, the meteors of 9 Feb. 1913 and an attempt at an explanation | Ulrich Sperberg | |
| 20:30 | Best of picture show | All | |
| Sunday | |||
| 10:00 | Analysis of meteor images | Mario | |
| 10:20 | Parallel observation of the aurora on 12.09.2023 | Sabine & Frank Wächter, Ina Rendtel | |
| 10:40 | The aurora year 2023 | Andreas Möller | |
| 11:10 | Solar eclipse, halos and the security of the state | André Knöfel | |
| 11:25 | First results of the University of Münster on the Ribbeck meteorite | Ina Rendtel | |
| 11:45 | Meteorites in the rock cellar: a visit to the VKTA | Sabine and Frank Wächter |