Foreword

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List of Participants

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Magda STAVINSCHI, William VAN ALTENA, Education in Astrometry

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William THUILLOT, Jean-Eudes ARLOT, Magda STAVINSCHI, Mirel BIRLAN, Valery LAINEY, Ground-Based Astrometry at the Time of the GAIA Space Mission

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Mehmet Emin ÖZEL, Yasemin KAÇAR, Volkan BAKIŞ, Murat OLUTAŞ, Umit KIZILOĞLU, Tolga GÜVER, Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Studies in Turkey

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Petre POPESCU, Radu POPESCU, Gheorghe BOCŞA, Petre PARASCHIV, Gheorghe HUIAN, Alin NEDELCU, Liviu ŞERBĂNESCU, Octavian BĂDESCU, Narrow-Field Astrometry with the Prin-Merz Astrograph .

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Volkan BAKIŞ, Edwin BUDDING, Osman DEMİRÇAN, Hicran BAKIŞ, Astrometric Solutions of Eclipsing Binaries: R CMa and XY Leo .

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Gennady PINIGIN, Yuri PROTSYUK, Alexander SHULGA, Cooperation for Common Use of SEE Astronomical Database as a Regional Virtual Observatory in Different Scientific Projects

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Zeki ASLAN, Rustem GUMEROV, Irek KHAMITOV, Gennady PINIGIN, Alexander SHULGA, Cooperation for Ground-Based Provision of the Programme “GAIA Follow-Up” within the International Framework of KSU (Russia), TUG (Turkey) and NAO (Ukraine)

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Mirel BIRLAN, Near-IR Spectroscopy of Karin Family of Asteroids .

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Alin NEDELCU, Radu POPESCU, Octavian BĂDESCU, Image Processing of High-Speed Celestial Objects

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Valerian SEMENTSOV, Irina VOLOSHINA, Study of the Magnitude Equation in Nova Stars Observations

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Anatoly KAZANTSEV, Migration Velocities of Asteroids from MBA to NEAs and Centaurs

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Dan ŞELARU, Vasile MIOC, Cătălin CUCU-DUMITRESCU, Marian GHENESCU, Chaotic Dynamics of Asteroidal Satellites

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Vasile MIOC, Mira-Cristiana ANISIU, Magda STAVINSCHI, Persistence of Planetary Rings under the Influence of the Anisotropically Re-Emitted Solar Radiation

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Dmitrij LUPISHKO, Investigations of the Solar System Small Bodies at Karazin Kharkiv National University

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Valery KLESHCHONOK, Lilya KAZANTSEVA, Victor KISLYUK, Nicolay BUROMSKY, Observations of Star Occultations in Kiev by the “Spalakh” TV System

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Mihai CARAMIHAI, Liviu ŞERBĂNESCU, Digital Plate Pre-Processing Using Fuzzy Techniques

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Katya TSVETKOVA, Milcho TSVETKOV, Magda STAVINSCHI, Alain FRESNEAU, Patricia LAMPENS, Astrometric Plate Catalogues in the WFPDB .

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Vladimir RYLKOV, Anna DEMENTYEVA, Natalia NARIZHNAYA, Nadezhda MAIGUROVA, Gennady PINIGIN, Yuri PROTSYUK, Gheorghe BOCŞA, Petre POPESCU, Compiled Catalogue of Reference Stars around 43 Extragalactic Radio Sources

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Octavian BĂDESCU, Petre POPESCU, Radu POPESCU, Relative Positioning Geoid-Ellipsoid Using Vertical Deviation

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Nataliya BAZYEY, Astrometry in Odessa University .

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Stelian COJOCARU, Flavius OTINCELESCU, Adrian DRĂGUŞAN, Ship’s Coordinates via Solar Circummeridian Observations

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Violeta IVANOVA, Tanyu BONEV, Gordana APOSTOLOVSKA, Galin BORISOV, Vladimir KRUMOV, Astrometry with the 50/70 Schmidt Telescope of the Bulgarian National Observatory – Rozhen

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Vasile MIOC, Magda STAVINSCHI, Planetary Rings Stability: Qualitative Approach

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Alexandru POP, Rodica ROMAN, RT And: Multiperiodic Orbital Period Variability, Resonance and the Hypothesis of the Light-Time Effect .

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Petre POPESCU, Gheorghe BOCŞA, Alin NEDELCU, Romanian Instruments and Databases: An Attempt to Capitalize the Astronomical Heritage

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Helen ROVITHIS-LIVANIOU, Peter ROVITHIS, Leonidas GEORGOPOULOS, David MKRTICHIAN, The Eclipsing Binary TZ Dra .

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Vitaly FILONENKO, Fiodor VELICHKO, Sergey VELICHKO, Roman KRYMSALJUK, CCD Observations of Comets at the Astronomical Institute of Kharkov National University .

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Petre POPESCU, Radu POPESCU, Gheorghe BOCŞA, Petre PARASCHIV, Alin NEDELCU, Liviu ŞERBĂNESCU, Octavian BĂDESCU, Local Reference System of 12 Extragalactic Radiosources Used for Radio-Optical Connection

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Liviu ŞERBĂNESCU, Mihai CARAMIHAI, Carmen TOMA, Şerban GĂLOIU, Alina ŞERBAN, Software Techniques for Analyzing Celestial Objects on Photographic Plates

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Vladimir RYLKOV, Natalia NARIZHNAYA, The Catalogue of Reference Stars around 72 Galactic Radio-Stars

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