Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
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|organization = Thuringian State Observatory
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|location = Tautenburg, Thuringia
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|website = {{URL|www.tls-tautenburg.de}}
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The Karl Schwarzschild Observatory (Officially: Thuringia State Observatory Tautenburg) is a German astronomical observatory in Tautenburg near Jena, Thuringia. It is owned and operated as under public law by the State of Thuringia.
It was founded in 1960 as an affiliated institute of the former German Academy of Sciences at Berlin in GDR and named in honour of the astronomer and physicist Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916). In 1992, the institute was re-established as Thuringian State Observatory (Thüringer Landessternwarte, TLS).{{cite web|url=http://www.tls-tautenburg.de/TLS/index.php?id=15&L=1#c3|title=General|access-date=1 October 2014|archive-date=22 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122055254/http://www.tls-tautenburg.de/TLS/index.php?id=15&L=1#c3|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg |url=https://www.astronomie-in-deutschland.de/thueringer-landessternwarte-tautenburg |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=www.astronomie-in-deutschland.de}}
Observatory
File:Alfred-Jensch-Teleskop-1.jpg
The observatory has the largest telescope located in Germany, which is also the largest Schmidt camera in the world. Made by VEB Zeiss Jena (the branch of Carl Zeiss located in Jena in what was then East Germany), this instrument is known as Alfred Jensch Telescope: though its mirror is 2 metres in diameter, the telescope's aperture is 1.34 m.{{cite web|url=http://www.tls-tautenburg.de/TLS/index.php?id=51&L=1|title=2m-Alfred-Jensch-Telescope|access-date=1 October 2014}}
The observatory has observed several exoplanets and brown dwarfs, as around the stars HD 8673, 30 Arietis, 4 Ursae Majoris, and around HD 13189 on 5 April 2005.{{cite web|url=http://austral.as.utexas.edu/planets/hd13189/hd13189.html|title=A giant planet around the massive giant star HD 13189|access-date=1 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150720062004/http://austral.as.utexas.edu/planets/hd13189/hd13189.html|archive-date=20 July 2015}} The observatory also hosts an International station for the interferometric radio telescope LOFAR.{{cite web| url=http://www.lofar.org/about-lofar/general-information/european-stations/german-lofar-stations/german-lofar-stations| title=German LOFAR stations| publisher=ASTRON| access-date=2015-05-17| archive-date=2017-12-30| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230115014/http://www.lofar.org/about-lofar/general-information/european-stations/german-lofar-stations/german-lofar-stations| url-status=dead}}
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See also
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Alfred Jensch|de}}
- Bernhard Schmidt
- List of astronomical observatories
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|URL=http://www.tls-tautenburg.de/TLS/index.php?id=2&L=1 }}
- [http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25550 Interview with director on ESA's plans for finding Earth-like planets]{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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