 Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in 1981 | |||
| Alternative names | Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg | ||
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| Named after | Karl Schwarzschild | ||
| Organization | Thuringian State Observatory | ||
| Observatory code | 033 | ||
| Location | Tautenburg, Thuringia | ||
| Coordinates | 50°58′48.4″N11°42′40.2″E / 50.980111°N 11.711167°E /50.980111; 11.711167 | ||
| Altitude | 341 m (1,119 ft) | ||
| Established | 1960 (1960) | ||
| Website | www | ||
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TheKarl Schwarzschild Observatory (Officially:Thuringia State Observatory Tautenburg) is a Germanastronomicalobservatory inTautenburg nearJena,Thuringia. It is owned and operated as under public law by theState of Thuringia.
It was founded in 1960 as an affiliated institute of the formerGerman Academy of Sciences at Berlin in GDR and named in honour of the astronomer and physicistKarl Schwarzschild (1873–1916). In 1992, the institute was re-established asThuringian State Observatory (Thüringer Landessternwarte, TLS).[1][2]
The observatory has the largesttelescope located inGermany, which is also the largestSchmidt camera in the world. Made byVEB Zeiss Jena (the branch of Carl Zeiss located in Jena in what was thenEast Germany), this instrument is known as Alfred Jensch Telescope: though its mirror is 2 metres in diameter, the telescope'saperture is 1.34 m.[3]
The observatory has observed severalexoplanets andbrown dwarfs, as around the starsHD 8673,30 Arietis,4 Ursae Majoris, and aroundHD 13189 on 5 April 2005.[4] The observatory also hosts an International station for theinterferometricradio telescopeLOFAR.[5]
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