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The event will take place on Tuesday 10th June 2025.

Programme (in progress)

Times are in CEST.

Morning Session
10:00-10:05 : Welcome -- Stephen Serjeant & James Pearson (5 min)
10:05-10:25 : Overview of ACME -- Antoine Kouchner (ACME Coordinator) (20 min)
10:25-10:40 : Astro-COLIBRI platform for real-time alerts - introduction -- Fabian Schüssler (15 min)
10:40-11:25 : Astro-COLIBRI interfaces (demo) -- Ilja Jaroschewski (45 min)
11:25-11:45 : Break (20 min)
11:45-12:15 : Astro-COLIBRI API (hands-on tutorial) -- Bernardo Cornejo (30 min)
12:15-12:45 : RAPAS pro-am network for scientific alerts -- Thierry Midavaine (30 min)
12:45-13:45 : Lunch Break (60 min)

Afternoon Session
13:45-14:30 : WIVONA project (talk + demo of interfacing with SAMP & Astro-COLIBRI) -- Jean-Paul Goddard (45 min)
14:30-14:45 : Virtual Observatory (VO) + python integration -- Renaud Savalle (15 min)
14:45-15:00 : Break (15 min)
15:00-15:20 : BHTOM: Why and How -- Lukasz Wyrzykowski (20 min)
15:20-16:05 : BHTOM GUI/API (hands-on tutorial) -- Lukasz Wyrzykowski (45 min)
16:05- : Submitted talks and closing remarks (in progress)

Projects

Astro-COLIBRI is an innovative platform that provides real-time insights into the most extreme astronomical phenomena, helping users quickly identify and observe events across various timescales. Our state-of-the-art architecture and user-friendly interface ensure a seamless experience for astronomers worldwide. Whether you are an experienced astronomer or simply curious about the mysteries of our universe, Astro-COLIBRI provides a powerful yet accessible tool for exploring and contributing to the world of multi-messenger astronomy.

The RAPAS network is a Pro-Am (professional-amateur) collaboration aiming to strengthen and coordinate the response to scientific alerts for the detection of transient events: unreferenced solar system objects, and unknown stellar or extragalactic sources with strong photometric variations. These alerts from the ground allow for the rapid validation of the detections and their monitoring longer term.

The WIVONA project (We Implement Virtual Observatory Needs of Amateurs) aims at providing the amateur community with simple tools that allow the interfacing of complex protocols such as SAMP (for use with the Aladin interactive sky atlas and the TOPCAT interactive editor) with widely-adopted and familiar software such as PRISM, which deals with astronomy, telescope and observatory control, as well as image processing and analysis, and the simple camera capture tool SharpCap.

BHTOM* (Black Hole Target Observation Manager) is a state-of-the-art web server designed to coordinate a network of telescopes, manage astronomical observations, and process the data obtained from these observations. Join us with your telescope, observe interesting science targets, and we will help you process your data! Each datapoint you collect will be labelled with your name!

*Please note that BHTOM does have some additional user requirements to take part: a CCD/CMOS camera (either mono with filter wheel or built-in RGB filters), and the ability to write images as FITS files and perform bias/dark/flat corrections to those images.