Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region

Wayne Orchiston is an Associate Professor in the Center for Astronomy at James Cook University (Australia), where he supervises a large pool of off-campus Ph.D. students and carries out research on the history of Australian, English, French, Indian, New Zealand, and USA astronomy. He also edits the 'Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage.' Until his recent retirement, Tsuko Nakamura carried out research on solar system astronomy and the history of Japanese astronomy whilst working at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo. He is currently Professor of Astronomy at Teikyo-Heisei University in Tokyo, Japan. Richard Strom recently retired as Chief Scientist at ASTRON, where he carried out radio astronomical research, while also investigating the history of Dutch radio astronomy and aspects of Chinese astronomical history. He is now an Adjunct Professor in the Center for Astronomy at James Cook University (Australia). In 2010 he will spend half a year as a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• Contents.- Foreword.- Participants.- Conference Program.- Part I: Applied Historical Astronomy.- Paper (Stephenson Eclipses).- Paper(Tanikama et al.).- Paper (Nha II-Seong Eclipse).- Paper (Strom).- Part II: Archaeoastronomy.- Paper (Vahia).- Paper (Gullberg and Malville).- Part III: Astronomers, Books, Manuscripts, and Star Charts.- Paper (Hafex et al.).- Paper (Soma and Tanikawa).- Paper (Ohashi).- Paper (Yosida and Nakamura).- Paper (Nah II-Seong Planisphere).- Paper (Stephenson Korean MS).- Part IV: Nineteenth Century Transits of Venus and Solar Eclipses.- Paper (Cottam ToV).- Paper (Pearson et al.).- Paper (Solar Eclipses).- Part V: The History of Australian Radio Astronomy.- Paper (Wendt et al. Potts Hills).- Paper (Wendt et al. Murraybank).- Paper (Stewart et al. Wild).- Paper (Wendt Wild and H-line).- Paper (Wendt et al. Christiansen).- Stewart (Retrospective).