Guided Tours

The Institut für Astrophysik offers public guided tours with the opportunity to observe through the 50 cm reflecting telescope at fixed dates. During the tours the equipment of the institute for research and education will be presented. If the sky is clear fascinating celestrial objects (e.g. moon, planets, gas nebula, star clusters, galaxies) will be shown through the telescope. In addition, a half hour presentation of a topic on current astronomical research will be given.

Dates of public guided tours:

Saturday, 19 October 2024, 19:00 hours (Astronomy day/ Lange Nacht der Astronomie)
Observing targets: Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, Saturn
in parallel: Live-Stream of Stiftung Planetarium Berlin (Live observations of Comet C/2023 A3, short contributions in German on star formation, black holes, radio astronomy and exoplanets)
beforehand (14:00-19:00 hours): Public lectures and planetarium shows at the MPI for Solar System Research
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 14:00 and 16:00 hours (Day of open collections)
Von der Stadtmauer zum Nordcampus – Göttinger Astronomie im Wandel der Zeit
Guided tours of the historical astrophysics collection (in German)
max. 15 persons per tour, registration under www.forum-wissen.de/tdos-anmeldung
Monday, 11 November 2024, 18:00 hours
Observing targets: Moon, Saturn
Topic of the presentation: tba
Thursday, 05 December 2024, 18:00 hours
Observing targets: Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn
Topic of the presentation: tba

Guided tours will take place at any weather conditions. However, no observations through the telescope will be possible when the sky is covered. No reservations are required. Admittance is free - volontary donotations for our public outreach activities are welcome.

Meeting point for guided tours:
Fakultät für Physik, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 (formerly Tammannstr. 1), entrance Northeast.
Due to organizational reasons entrance is possible only punctually at the beginning of the tour.

For school classes we offer special tours of the institute on prior arrangement.