Stern­warte Heidelberg

• What is there to see in the planetarium?
• Can I make a reser­va­tion for the Heidelberg Moun­tain Obser­va­tory on the König­stuhl (LSW)?
• Direc­tions
• History of the Heidelberg König­stuhl Moun­tain Observatory
• Insti­tu­tion Uni­ver­sity of Heidelberg
• Are there dis­co­veries that have been made by the Heidelberg König­stuhl State Observatory?
• Important per­sons
• What tech­no­logy is used at the Heidelberg König­stuhl State Obser­va­tory on the Königstuhl?
• Why was the Heidelberg König­stuhl State Obser­va­tory built at the site?
• Are there any other orga­niza­ti­ons as well?
• Infor­ma­tion about cur­rent space projects
• Fur­ther information
• Con­clu­sion
• Trans­la­ted with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Blood moon: If the sun, the moon and the earth are in one line, then there is a blood moon to see. Ther­eby the moon must be in front of the earth. After­wards the sun comes. For exam­ple, on 16.05.2022 there was the spe­cial pos­si­bi­lity to see a blood moon. This began at 03:32 o’clock and ended at 06:52 o’clock. While the par­tial eclipse could be seen until 08:52.

Solar eclipse: There are three dif­fe­rent types of solar eclipse. These are the par­tial, total and the annu­lar solar eclipse. The par­tial solar eclipse takes place only if at the new moon, the moon a little bit more, than a quar­ter of the sun is covered. The con­stel­la­tion is earth, moon and after­wards the sun. If the moon, the sun com­ple­tely covers, then the sci­en­tists speak of a total solar eclipse. The third type is the annu­lar solar eclipse. It is called this because the moon is clo­sest to the sun at this time and the sun is not com­ple­tely covered.

First Trojan Achilles

Earth orbi­ter Alinda

248 minor planets

823 aste­ro­ids

These images can be viewed in the GAVO data­base. This con­ta­ins seve­ral collections.

Grand Duke Fre­de­rick I of Baden

He lived from 09. Sep­tem­ber. 1926 – Sep­tem­ber 28. 1907. During his life the Grand Duke finan­ced, among other things, the Pla­ne­ta­rium and the KIT was named after him. He died on the island of Mainau.

Maxi­mi­lian Franz Joseph Cor­ne­lius Wolf

He was born on June 21. 1863 in Heidelberg and died on 03. Octo­ber. 1932 also in Heidelberg. Wolf built a pri­vate obser­va­tory in his par­ents’ house. During this time also the idea grew to build a moun­tain obser­va­tory for larger obser­va­tions. When the obser­va­tory was finally opened on June 20. 1898 was opened, he became direc­tor with Wil­helm Valen­ti­ner. Wolf was the head of the astro­phy­si­cal depart­ment. When Valen­ti­ner finally reti­red, his depart­ment, the astro­me­tric, was com­bi­ned. Before that, they com­pe­ted with each other.

Maxi­mi­lian Wolf worked in seve­ral areas. Among them was cata­lo­ging astro­no­mical nebu­lae. Using spec­tro­scopy tech­no­logy, the sci­en­tist was able to make visi­ble gas nebu­lae that were not nor­mally visi­ble. In 1909-1910 he dis­co­vered Halley’s comet. To this we should add that the astro­no­mer redis­co­vered the comet. The real dis­co­ve­rer was Edmond Halley. He redis­co­vered the comet in 1705.

Wil­liam Valentiner

Valen­ti­ner was born on Febru­ary 22. 1845 in the city Eckern­fröde and died in the year 1. April. 1931. In 1875 the astro­no­mer got the post of direc­tor for the obser­va­tory in Mann­heim. Then he also became the direc­tor in Karls­ruhe, when the obser­va­tory was moved. When the pla­ne­ta­rium on the König­stuhl in Heidelberg was built, he became the head of the astro­me­tric department.

Andreas Quir­ren­bach

He is a pro­fes­sor in the East Insti­tute and his focus is astro­phy­sics. In addi­tion, he has been run­ning since April 1. 2006 the manage­ment of the obser­va­tory. Astro­phy­sics also includes basic rese­arch. He was sel­ec­ted among all other candidates.

There were also pri­vate sup­port­ers, such as Cathe­rine Wolfe Bruce.

Kann refrac­tor

This is a refrac­ting telescope. In astro­nomy it was one of the first telescopes.

Bruce telescope

This is an astro­graph. The Bruce Telescope was funded by donor Cathe­rine Wolfe Bruce for the natio­nal obser­va­tory. It allo­wed Wolf and his staff to pho­to­graph objects.

Waltz Telescope

To make the opti­cal machine work, it focu­ses elec­tro­ma­gne­tic waves to observe distant par­tic­les. There are also other so-called auxi­liary mir­rors. At the end there is the eyepiece.

Cas­se­grain telescope

This telescope con­sists only of a skin mirror. The mirror reflects in a secon­dary mirror.

Schmidt telescope

This telescope is only for photography.

Zeiss telescope

This is a refrac­ting telescope. In astro­nomy it was one of the first telescopes.

James Webb Telescope

The James Webb machine is the most expen­sive obser­va­tory that has been put into space so far. It was named after the direc­tor of Nasa. The larger goal is to explore the begin­nings of the uni­verse. It is sup­po­sed to be the suc­ces­sor of the Hubble.

The mis­sion was laun­ched on Decem­ber 19, 2013. The goal of the Gaia mis­sion is to create an accu­rate map of the known universe.

Lunar-Gatway

Since the ISS will reach the end of its life in a few years, various space agen­cies have deci­ded to build a new space sta­tion. This will not be ready until 2030. The plan is that the sta­tion will not be inha­bi­ted for the whole year, but only for 3 months. It will be sta­tio­ned in what is called cis-lunar space. This is the space bet­ween the Earth and the Moon. This means that the flight will be much longer than to the ISS.

Extre­mely Large Telescope, Giant Mage­lan Telescope, Thirsty Meter Telescope.

The ELT is expec­ted to be com­ple­ted in 2024. The plan is for the GML to be ope­ra­tio­nal in 2022. The TMT, at 30 meters, should be the lar­gest of its kind in the nor­t­hern hemi­sphere. Curr­ently, it is pro­ba­bly not sche­du­led to begin con­s­truc­tion for ano­ther 2 years.

Square Kilo­metre Array

Desti­na­ti­ons: Cradle of Life, High Field Tests of Gene­ral Rela­ti­vity, Origin and Evo­lu­tion of Cosmic Magne­tic Fields, Galaxy For­ma­tion and Cos­mo­logy, Rei­sio­ning Epoch: This is the time before the first objects, like a star, existed.

Part 1: In this sec­tion the expan­sion in the low and middle fre­quency should have rea­ched about 20%.

Part 2: In this sec­tion, the com­plete capa­city of the arrays for the low and medium fre­quency should be reached.

Part 3: In this sec­tion the build-up of the arrays for the so called high fre­quen­cies starts.

LSST: Large Syn­op­tic Survey Telescope.

Objec­ti­ves: Survey gra­vi­ta­tio­nal len­sing to find dark matter/energy, map small objects, observe stel­lar explo­si­ons such as novae.

Euclid 

Euclid: This is to explore the dark universe.

Comet Inter­cep­tor mission

At the moment, the probe is still brea­king down. If, accor­ding to the sche­dule, it is com­ple­ted in 2029, then it will be laun­ched into space with a launch vehicle in the same year. In space, the probe will be placed in a wai­ting posi­tion. When astro­no­mers dis­co­ver a sui­ta­ble inter­stel­lar object, the probe will head for the object and study it.

Mars Sample Return

The goal is to bring samples from Mars and back to Earth. Up to now, they have only ever been exami­ned directly in the rese­arch labo­ra­to­ries of the robots, such as Cur­si­o­sity. The­r­e­fore, only small amounts of samples could be exami­ned. The goal is to examine the samples in labo­ra­to­ries on Earth.

LISA

This can be used to study gra­vi­ta­tio­nal waves, for exam­ple. Gra­vi­ta­tio­nal waves were pre­dic­ted by the famous Pro­fes­sor Ein­stein in 1916. With the help of the Advan­ced LIGO gene­ra­tors, gra­vi­ta­tio­nal waves were detec­ted on Sep­tem­ber 14, 2015. For exam­ple, when two black holes col­l­ide with each other, the curves. With the proof it was proved that the gra­vi­ta­tio­nal waves really exist.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion you can cont­act the dif­fe­rent insti­tu­tes in the respec­tive main building.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion you can cont­act the dif­fe­rent insti­tu­tes in the respec­tive main building.