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Join us for a Long Night of Astronomy
Special opening hours on 19 October
2 October 2024
On Saturday, 19 October, the ESO Supernova will participate in the nationwide Long Night of Astronomy and open its doors between 18:30 and 23:00. Together with the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster an exciting programme is planned with various free activities.
Throughout the evening, you can find astronomers and engineers in the exhibition, who are available to answer your questions about the Universe. If the weather is nice, the ESO Supernova roof terrace will be open and you can use telescopes to observe the beautiful night sky.
From 19:00, you can watch a live stream from other German planetariums and observatories in our seminar room. Experts from various locations will give short presentations of 15 minutes each, including live comments and explanations about observed celestial objects.
Stating at 19:30 in the planetarium, Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkert will take you on a journey to the beginning of space and time and summarises some important research results on the question of our cosmic origin. Andreas Burkert is professor of Computational Astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich and spokesperson of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster. This lecture is accompanied by some fulldome visuals. A ticket reservation is required for the lecture as there are only a limited number of seats available.
In addition, there will be planetarium shows: one live show about the current night sky and ESO's production Europe to the Stars. A ticket reservation is also required for these shows.
The Long Night of Astronomy is part of the Astronomy Day, which has been centrally coordinated by the Sternfreunde Association since 2003 to give the general public an insight into astronomy with a changing focus. Street astronomy became particularly popular in Germany after the Second World War. At that time, astronomers with self-made or salvaged telescopes could be found in many public places, bringing people closer to the sky, which was not as light-polluted as it is now.
This year, the Long Night of Astronomy will be held across Germany for the first time as a joint project by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Berlin Planetarium Foundation, the Astronomical Society and in cooperation with other planetariums, observatories and institutions on the nationwide Astronomy Day.
Links
- ESO Supernova Long Night of Astronomy programme
- ORIGINS Excellence Cluster
- Official Long Night of Astronomy website
Contacts
ESO Supernova Planetarium & Besucherzentrum
Garching b. München, Germany
Tel: 08932006900
Email: supernova@eso.org
