Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics

Public Outreach

The Institute for Astrophysics offers public guided tours with the opportunity to observe through the 50 cm reflecting telescope at fixed dates.

Live images from the 50 cm Cassegrain teleskop

Further information and dates ...

Polarlicht über Göttingen (10./11.05.2024)
Time-lapse video of aurora over Göttingen during the night May 10/11, 2024, composed of image sequences taken with the all-sky camera of the Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics of the University of Göttingen on the roof of the faculty of Physics (Image orientation: North right, East up; Processing and Video: Karsten Schimpf, IAG)

sofi2022_montage
Image sequence of the partial solar eclipse on October 25, 2022 (Images: K. Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik und Geophysik, Universität Göttingen)

Partielle Sonnenfinsternis, 25.10.2022
Time lapse video of the partial solar eclipse on October 25, 2022 (Video: K. Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen)


Archival images and videos


Verlauf der partiellen Sonnenfinsternis am 10.06.2021 über Göttingen
Image sequence of the partial solar eclipse on June 10, 2021 (Images: K. Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen)

Sun 2021-06-10T11:41:09 MESZ
Time lapse video of the partial solar eclipse on June 10, 2021 (Video: K. Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen)

Mond, Jupiter und Saturn über Göttingen am 18.12.2020
Close encounter of Jupiter and Saturn on the evening sky over Göttingen of December 18, 2020 (Image: Klaus Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik)

Jupiter und Saturn am 18.12.2020 aufgenommen mit den Instrumenten der Astrophysik
Telescope view of the close encounter of Jupiter and Saturn on the evening sky over Göttingen of December 18, 2020 (Image: Klaus Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik)

Jupiter und Saturn am 19.12.2020 aufgenommen mit dem 50-cm-Cassegrain-Teleskop der Astrophysik
Telescope view of the close encounter of Jupiter and Saturn on the evening sky over Göttingen of December 19, 2020 (Image: Klaus Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik)


Komet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) mit Gebäude der Physik, 14.07.2020, 0:15-0:35 MESZ
Comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) on 14.07.2020, 00:15-00:35 CEST, composite of 90 individual exposures, taken on the grounds of the Faculty of Physics in Göttingen (Image and processing: Sascha Lambert, Institut für Astrophysik)

Komet C/2020 F3 (Neowise), 13.07.2020, 22:42 MESZ
Comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) on 13.07.2020, 22:42 CEST over Göttingen (Image: Klaus Reinsch, Institut für Astrophysik)

Meanwhile distances between Earth/Sun and the comet are increasing and optical means are mandatory to observe the comet (07.08.2020).

Total lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019

Total lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019

Total lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019
Total lunar eclipse over Göttingen on the morning sky of 21 January 2019 (Images (from top): Niclas Mrotzek, Johannes Hinrichs & Tim-Oliver Husser, Institut für Astrophysik)

Recent images:
Total lunar eclipse over Göttingen on September 28, 2015 (J. Hinrichs, IAG)
partial solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 (images)
partial solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 (video)
Aurora over Göttingen on March 17/18, 2015