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The annual SF2A (société Française d'Astronomie et Astrophysique) meeting has just ended :
http://www.sf2a.eu

This is the 2nd edition where the amateurs are invited to present their work during a Pro/Am collaboration workshop

The meeting take place in south of France in Nice :



More than 380 attendees were present



This year, in spectroscopy, Pascal le Dû and I were invited to present 2 subjects in spectrocopy :

- The PN confirmation with spectroscopy and the new website about PN confirmation by Pascal Le Dû:
http://planetarynebulae.net
(available soon in English)



- a "state of play" of amateur spectroscopy and pro/am collaboration by Olivier Garde



Alexandre Santerne from the LAM (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) presented us the TESS and ARIEL Exotic Transits Amateurs Contributions. And Alexandre also encouraged us to observe, in spectroscopy, the evolution of the chromosphere of F, G and K type stars, the details are explained here:
http://www.spectro-aras.com/forum/viewt ... f=6&t=2283

and here :
http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/chromospheric_activity/



All presentation will be available soon on the SF2A website.