Subject: WGAS meetings at Tucson AAS

From: hanisch at stsci.edu (Bob Hanisch)
Date: 6 Jan 1995 15:01:04 GMT

WGAS Meetings at the January 1995 AAS Meeting

                    Session 69:  Remote Observing 
               Tuesday 10 January 1995, 2:00 -- 3:30 pm 
                  Maricopa (Tucson Convention Center) 

         Sponsored by the Working Group on Astronomical Software 

69.01 Low Bandwidth Techniques for Remote Observing 
      Jeff Percival (Space Astronomy Laboratory, U. Wis.)

115.04 Compression and Progressive Transmission of Astronomical Images 
      Rick White (STScI)

69.02 Remote Observing for the Small Observatory 
      Arne Henden (USNO-Flagstaff)

69.03 Remote Observing with Robotic Telescopes on Mt. Hopkins 
      Greg Henry (Tennessee State University)

69.04 The MicroObservatory Net 
      Ken Brecher (Boston U.) and P. Sadler (CfA)			

69.05 Successful Operation of Remote Telescopes for Education and Research 
      Carl Pennypacker, S. Deustua, S. Perlmutter, G. Goldhaber, and 
      E. Arsem (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

69.06 IUE Remote Observing System 
      Andy Michalitsianos (NASA-GSFC LASP), R. E. Pitts, A. Groebner, and
      R. Arquilla (CSC - IUE Observatory)

           Session 115:  Working Group on Astronomical Software 
               Thursday 12 January 1995, 10:00 -- 11:30 am 
                   Maricopa (Tucson Convention Center) 

115.01 Lessons Learned from Providing Internet Support for the
       Shoemaker-Levy 9 Observing Campaign 
       Ann Raugh (U. Maryland)

115.02 On-Line Resources from the FITS Support Office (poster) 
       Barry Schlesinger (Hughes STX) and D. M. Sawyer (NASA-GSFC)

115.03 The FITS Table Database for XTE 
       Arnold Rots (USRA -- NASA-GSFC)

                          Business Meeting 

o  Electronic Publishing
   o  APLett on-line demo
o  On-Line Preprint Services (ADASS, APS workshops)
o  ADASS V - Tucson, AZ, 22-25 October 1995; contact J. Barnes (NOAO),
   softconf at noao.edu
o  FITS
   o  new chair of WGAS FITS committee
   o  NOST committee activities
   o  checksum proposal
   o  hierarchical grouping convention proposal
   o  world coordinates proposal
o  Other Issues
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