Activity
Venue
  Sunday, 26 September
Arrival at Heja, Finke's Sicht or other accomodation near Heja.
  16:00 Game ride at Heja on the farm and sun downer on a hill overlooking Windhoek
  19:00 Dinner at Heja
 
  Monday, 27 September
Inauguration Workshop at Heja
  10:00 Inauguration Workshop (Program)
  19:00 Dinner at Heja
 
  Tuesday, 28 September
Inauguration Day at Goellschau
08:00 Bus leaves Heja for Goellschau
10:30 Inauguration with speeches and guided tours for guests (Program)
13:00 Lunch on site
15:00 Transfer back to Heja (could be a bit later if requested)
19:00 Braai dinner at Heja
 
  Wednesday, 29 September
HESS Collaboration Meeting in Windhoek
10:00 Start of meeting at the Gemeindezentrum Foundation in Windhoek
  Thursday, 30 September
HESS Collaboration Meeting in Windhoek
09:00 Continuation of meeting at the Gemeindezentrum Foundation in Windhoek
  Friday, 1 October
HESS Collaboration Meeting in Windhoek
09:00 Continuation of meeting at the Gemeindezentrum Foundation in Windhoek
18:00 Public H.E.S.S Lecture at the Gemeindezentrum Foundation in Windhoek (Program)
  Saturday, 2 October
HESS "Open Day" at Goellschau (Program)
09:00 - 16:00 We welcome visitors and show them our experiment
 

Namibia, 27 September - 2 October 2004


 
 
Schedule
Pre- and post-periastron skymaps of the binary pulsar PSR B1259-63 (center of image) seen by H.E.S.S. Prepared by Stefan Schlenker for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration. Note the disappearance of the pulsar at "B". See below.
 
 
 
   
Schematic diagram of the passage of the pulsar in a very eccentric orbit around the Be star, crossing the stellar disk at points A and B from where gamma-rays are seen.
 
Artist's impression of a Be-binary system showing the crossing of the pulsar at points A and B through the stellar disk.
 
   
   
     
     
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Estie Nel

 

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