No.	Date	Place	Country	Approx. Participation
1	12-13 Nov 1973	Stockholm	Sweden	20
2	12-13 Aug 1974	Liège	Belgium	10
3	16-18 Oct 1975	Halvorsbøle (Oslo)	Norway	41
4	16-18 Aug 1976	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany	21
5	26-29 Sep 1977	Granada	Spain	?
6 AM	18-21 Sep 1978	Aberdeen	Scotland	42
7 AM	25-28 Jun 1979	Tromsø	Norway	38
8 AM	8-11 Sep 1980	Dublin	Ireland	26
9 AM	27-30 Oct 1981	Albano Laziale (Rome)	Italy	few
10 AM	6-11 Sep 1982	Grasse	France	26 or more
11 AM	29 Aug - 2 Sep 1983	Lindau/Hartz	Germany	21 or more
12 AM	3-7 Sep 1984	Stockholm	Sweden	35
13 AM	19-23 Aug 1985	Oslo	Norway	54 (group photo)
14 AM	17-22 Aug 1986	Cambridge	England	48
15 AM	6-11 Sep 1987	Granada	Spain	50
16 AM	1988	Oulu	Finland	few
17 AM	24-29 Sep 1990	Abastumani	Georgia	19 or more
18 AM	17-21 Jun 1991	Tromsø	Norway	83
19 AM	10-14 Aug 1992	Kiruna	Sweden	124
20 AM	13-17 Sept 1993	Apatity	Russia	?
21 AM	12-16 Sep 1994	London	England	61 or more
22 AM	28 Aug - 1 Sept 1995	Nurmijärvi	Finland	69
23 AM	2-6 Sept 1996	Kiev	Ukraine	78
24 AM	18-22 Aug 1997	Andenes	Norway	54 (group photo)
25 AM	21-25 Sept 1998	Granada	Spain	72
26 AM	30 Aug - 3 Sept 1999	Lindau/Hartz	Germany	42 (group photo)
27 AM	21-25 Aug 2000	Stockholm	Sweden	51 (group photo)
28 AM	19-24 Aug 2001	Oulu	Finland	57 (group photo)
29 AM	3-6 Sept 2002	Kühlungsborn	Germany	37 (group photo)

Special thanks to Karl Måseide, Georg Witt, and Werner Eriksen. There was no Optical Meeting in 1989. The abbreviation like "6 AM" was invented in Aberdeen as a mind-teaser. The actual names of the meetings have varied through the years, between "Optical Meeting", "Annual Meeting on ..", "European Meeting ...", ".. on Upper Atmospheric Studies" or just "... on Atmospheric Studies". Please send any additions or corrections to uph@ffi.no.

Last update: 18 December 2002