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The Fourth ASSA Symposium was held on 29 to 30 March 1999 at the South African Museum and Planetarium in Cape Town.

Symposium Organising Committee:
Dr Tom Lloyd Evans, Dr Ian Glass and Chris de Coning

Summary of the symposium and programme:
assa_symp-1999

Talks given at the Symposium:

Abstracts:  assa_symposium_abstracts-1999

• Case Rijksdijk; “Alexandrian Astronomy”:  alexandrian_astr_today-rijsdijk
• Danie Overbeek; “Detection of a Stellar Flare by Amateur Equipment”:  amateur_detecting_flare-overbeek
• Tony Fairall; “Living Inside the Cosmic Egg”: cosmic_egg-fairall
• Chris de Villiers; “Digital Encoding of Co-ordinates on a German
  Equatorial Telescope Mounting”:  german_equatorial-de_villiers-1  german_equatorial-de_villiers-2
• Tom Lloyd Evans; “Relating the Infrared to the Visual Sky”:  infrared_visual_sky-lloyd_evans
• Ethleen Lastovica, “Thomas Maclear, Astrologer Royal at the Cape”:  maclear-lastovica
• Cliff Turk; “Running a Private Observatory for the Public”:  private_obs_for_public-turk
• Jan Hers; “Variable Star Observing: Visual vs CCD”:  variable_obs_visual_vs_ccd_hers
• Poster Paper: Tom Lloyd Evans, “The Visual Light Curve of R Lep”:  r_lep_light_curve-lloyd_evans

Attendees at Symposium: