219th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
8-12 January 2012, Austin, TX, USA
web: http://aas.org/meetings/aas219
220th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
10-14 June 2012, Anchorage, AK, USA
web: http://aas.org/meetings/aas220
17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun
24-29 June 2012, Barcelona, Spain
contact: Mercedes Lopez-Morales, mlopez[at]ieec.uab.es
web: http://www.coolstars17.net
11th Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium: The Most Mysterious Binaries: Significance for Astrophysics
2-6 July 2012, Hvar, Croatia
contact: Domagoj Ruzdjak, rdomagoj[at]geof.hr
web: http://www.geof.unizg.hr/oh/meetings/
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 240, Binary Stars as Critical Tools
and Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics are now available !
Proceedings of this symposium, held in August 2006 as part of the Prague IAU General Assembly
Prague symposium, have been published by Cambridge University Press. The printed volume
includes 59 talks, 2 posters, and 115 poster abstracts, while the publisher's website includes
103 posters. The Table of Contents for these proceedings is available in pdf form
here. For more information please see the publisher's website at
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jid_IAU.
IAU Symposium 248 (sponsored by Commission 8 and
supported by Commission 26) held on October 15-23 2007 in Shanghai, China was a
very important event for astrometry in 2008. A short summary of this meeting was
written by Alexandre Andrei and can be found
here.
Complete presentations of II International Meeting of Double Star Observers
(Pro-Am), held 23-24 October 2010 in Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain) are available
here.
Fifteenth Complementary Catalog of Spectroscopic Binaries
(Pedoussaut, A. et al. 1988, A&AS 75, 441; also Malkov, O.Y. 1989, Bull. Inform. CDS 36) on-line data query
A Finding List for Observers of Interacting Binary Systems (5th ed.)
(Wood, F.B. et al. 1980, Pub. Dept of Astron., Univ of Florida, vol 1) on-line data query
Catalog of Orbital Elements, Masses, and Luminosities of Close Double Stars
(Svechnikov, M.A. & Bessonova, L.A. 1984, Bull. Inform CDS 26, 99) on-line data query
A Catalogue of Parameters for Eclipsing Binaries
(Brancewicz, H.K. & Dworak, T.Z. 1980, Acta Astron. 30, no. 4, pp 501-524) on-line data query
A Catalogue of Classical (Evolved) Algol-Type Binary Candidate Stars
(Budding, E. 1984, Bull. Inform. CDS 27, 91) on-line data query
Catalogue of Algol Type Binary Stars
(Budding, E. et al. 2004, A&A 417, 263-268) on-line data query
Garraf Astronomical Observatory Located near Barcelona, Spain and headed by Tofol Tobal,
this organization has published over 10,000 visual double star observations in its "OAG General Catalog" and
remains a significant contributor to the WDS through its supplements to that catalog.
IAU Commission 26: Binary and Multiple Stars