The CEDIC (Central European Deepsky Imaging Conference) was held for the first time in 2009. It was the first astronomical imaging conference throughout Europe. Information and communication across local borders was the main focus of this event.

Because of the great success of the conference in 2009, we decided to host another CEDIC in 2011 (it was planned to organize a CEDIC every two years from the very early idea of this conference). Also we have some new ideas for 2011. For example we plan to do workshops in addition to the sessions this time.

Today we want to tell you one of the highlights for 2011: We are proud to announce that Jay GaBany - a very famous US astrophotographer - will join CEDIC '11 to perform a session and a workshop an we all look forward to meet him at the conference!

Conference opening of CEDIC '11 will take place on March 18th 2011 - 19:30 at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz / Austria. As in 2009 the opening event will be public and everyone is invited to join a unique, never seen multimedia presentation at the Deep Space of the Ars Electronica Center. The main theme of the presentation will be announce in the near future, but one thing is already certain today: It will be astronomy PURE!

We are already looking forward to have a lot of interesting conversations, discussions and simply a nice time!

Yours Cedic Spotlight Team & Christoph Kaltseis