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The Remeis Calendar

2026-07-06T13:31:41Z

Zangrandi:

This page is used by the Calendar people to keep track of possible pictures to use and for the old calendars.
[[Category:Internal]]

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== Organizational stuff ==
*order using viaprinto.de
*they have templates available (pptx, pdf, more advanced stuff, https://www.viaprinto.de/hilfe/layout-downloads/kalendarien/wandkalender.html)
*open a separat google doc (or whatever) to keep track of orders and money
*ask Ingo for money
*send emails to all@remeis, alumni@remeis, all@foerderverein, all@ecap
*leave 10-14 days for orders to arrive
*if calendars are left over, we can start a second call for orders
*offer shipment? -> need one day for packing, printing the labels, and bringing everything to the post office
*packaging available at e.g. https://karton-billiger.de/Kalenderverpackung-A3-420x310x10mm
*maybe use some for SM
*promo: join Förderverein and get one free (it happened slightly more often than neutrino less double beta decay)
*money of buyers goes to:
Förderverein der Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte e.V.
Kreditinstitut: Sparkasse Bamberg
IBAN: DE46 7705 0000 0302 4004 29
Swift: BYLADEMM
BIC: BYLADEM1SKB

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== Calendar 2020 ==
*number of copies: 100
*price: 772.22€
*used online tool and ordered at FLYERALARM
*sold for: 11.03€ (Fördervereinsmembers) or 20€ (non-members)
*some where used for Tombola, and others for promo for Förderverein
*no shipment offered
* pdf version: [[Media:Remeis calendar 2020.pdf]]

{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
|Main building
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Titlepage 2020.png|300px]]
|-
|January
|M31
|Heiko Hirsch
|[[File:m31.900.color.jpg|300px]]
|-
|February
|Startrails in 50cm dome
|Katrin Reisdorf, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:February 2020.png|300px]]
|-
|March
|NGC2237
|Heiko Hirsch
|[[File:hirsch.ngc2237.600.halpha.color_small.jpg|300px]]
|-
|April
|Milchweg
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:April 2020.png|300px]]
|-
|May
|M13
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber
|[[File:M13 weber.jpeg|300px]]
|-
|June
|East dome during sunrise
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:June 2020 .png|300px]]
|-
|July
|NGC7635
|Philipp Weber
|[[File:Ngc7635 narrow weber.jpg|300px]]
|-
|August
|Color-effect west dome
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:August 2020.png|300px]]
|-
|September
|NGC6888
|Markus Schindewolf
|[[File:crescent.jpg|300px]]
|-
|Oktober
|main building in the morning
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:October 2020.png|300px]]
|-
|November
|M33
|Heiko Hirsch
|[[File:m33_2008-12-14.hirsch.jpg|300px]]
|-
|December
|Remeis in the snow (seen from church-tower)
|Thorsten Melnicky
|Not added here, unclear copyright
|}

== Calendar 2021 ==
*number of copies: 150
*price: 573.71€
*sold for: 11€ (no-shipping) or 15€ (including shipping)
*3 were used as promo on Instagram
*3 were used for Förderverein Promo
*shipping [https://www.amazon.de/karton-billiger-Kalenderverpackung-A3-oder-10Stück/dp/B01CL0H20W/ref=pd_ybh_a_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0C3CNMGRYGPG5Z2PXN4V using]
*shipped 22 packages in Germany (5.99€) , one international (15.89€)
*ordered extra packages for Joerns shipping
*pdf version (reduced in size so it looks horrible): [[Media:Remeis calendar 2021.pdf]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
|Startrails meridian building
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Titlepage 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|January
|ISS transits the moon
|Eva von Gemünden and Philipp Weber
|[[File:January 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|February
|Iris nebula
|Caroline Collischon, Eva v. Gemünden, Steven Hämmerich, Philipp Weber
|[[File:February 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|March
|garden spring impressions
|Sara Saeedi, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:March 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|April
|IC1396A
|Eva von Gemünden and Philipp Weber
|[[File:April 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|May
|M33
|Matti Dorsch, Theresa Heindl, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:May 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|June
|NEOWISE (C/2020 F3)
|Eva von Gemünden and Philipp Weber
|[[File:neowise_weber_stripes.png|300px]]
|-
|July
|startrails main building
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:July 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|August
|Mars
|Eva von Gemünden, Steven Hämmerich, Theresa Heindl, Philipp Weber
|[[File:August 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|September
| Wizard Nebular / NGC7380
|Caroline Collischon, Eva von Gemünden, Steven Hämmerich, Theresa Heindl, Philipp Weber
|[[File:September 2021.png|300px]]
|-
|Oktober
|Steven Hämmerich
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:October 2021 1.png|150px]] [[File:October 2021 2.png|150px]]
|-
|November
|M51
|Eva von Gemünden and Philipp Weber
|[[File:M51_weber_2.png|300px]]
|-
|December
|NEOWISE seen from the East dome
|Eva von Gemünden and Philipp Weber
|[[File:neowise_dome_weber.png|300px]]
|}

== Calendar 2022 ==
*number of copies: 200
*printing cost: 693.20€
*sold for 11€, and additional 7.39€ for shipping (per package)
*one for institute and 6 for social media
*pdf version [[Media:Remeis calendar 2022.pdf]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
| East dome
| Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Fin titelpage 2022.png | 300px]]
|-
|January
| The Earth’s Moon
| Tamara Loeffen, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Loeffen Haemmerich moon2.png|300px]]
|-
|February
|The East Dome in the mist
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Feburary 2022.png | 300px]]
|-
|March
|Bode’s Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) astrometrically aligned
|Eva von Gemünden, Steven Hämmerich, Theresa Heindl, Philipp Weber
|[[File:March 2020.png| 300px]]
|-
|April
|The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber
|[[File:April 2022.png|300px]]
|-
|May
|Stairwell in the main building
|Tamara Loeffen
|[[File:May 2022.png|300px]]
|-
|June
|Photographic plate showing the Large Magellanic Cloud (Boyden Observatory, 1966)
|Rüdiger Knigge
|[[File:June 2022.jpg|300px]]
|-
|July
|The East Dome at night
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:July 2022.png|300px]]
|-
|August
|Jupiter’s rotation
|Eva von Gemünden, Steven Hämmerich, Theresa Heindl, Philipp Weber
|[[File:August 2022.png|300px]]
|-
|September
|The core of the Heart Nebula (IC1805)
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber
|[[File:September 2022.png|300px]]
|-
|Oktober
|The Pleiades (M45)
|Steven Hämmerich, Philipp Weber
|[[File:M45_weber_2021.png|300px]]
|-
|November
|Globes in the library
|Tamara Loeffen
|[[File:November 2022.png|300px]]
|-
|December
|The Horsehead Nebula (IC434)
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber
|[[File:December 2022.png|300px]]
|}

== Calendar 2023 ==
*number of copies: 250
*printing cost: 853,68 €
*sold for 11€, and additional 6.99€ for shipping (per package) and 1.51€ for packaging
*2 for institute and 6 for social media
*pdf version [[Media:Remeis cal 2023.pdf]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
|Domes and milkway
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Titlepage 2023.png|300px]]
|-
|January
|The Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory in winter
|Theresa Heindl
|[[File:January 2023.JPG|300px]]
|-
|February
|NGC 4631
|Philipp Weber, Ekaterina Sokolova-Lapa, Jakob Stierhof, Aafia Zainab, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:NGC4631 weber 2022.jpg | 300px]]
|-
|March
|Solar eclipse
|Philipp Weber, Theresa Heindl, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:March 2023.png|300px]]
|-
|April
|The Observatory garden (flower)
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:April 2023.png|300px]]
|-
|May
|The Moon
|Philipp Weber, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Moon 2022 08 07 weber haemmerich.png|300px]]
|-
|June
|NGC 7000
|Philipp Weber
|[[File:June 2023.png|300px]]
|-
|July
|Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
|Phillip Weber
|[[File:July 2023.png|300px]]
|-
|August
|The East Dome
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Titlepage 2022.png| 300px]]
|-
|September
|Caldwell 33
|Philipp Weber, Martin Reh, Caroline Collischon, Marie Prucker Jakob Stierhof Ekaterina Sokolova-Lapa, Aafia Zainab, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Caldwell33 weber 2022.jpg|300px]]
|-
|Oktober
|NGC 891
|Philipp Weber, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:NGC891 weber 2021.jpg | 300px]]
|-
|November
|Bamberg at night
|Steven Hämmerich, Theresa Heindl, Philipp Weber
|[[File:November 2023.png|300px]]
|-
|December
|M 42
|Philipp Weber, Aafia Zainab, Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:December 2023.png|300px]]
|}

== Calendar 2024 ==
*number of copies: 300?
{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
|Flower and Tower
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|January
|C2022/E3 (ZTF)
|Philipp Weber und irgendein Typ im Wohnwagen
|
|-
|February
|Remeis on tour
| Philipp Weber
|
|-
|March
|Leo Tripplet
|Philipp Weber, Theresa Heindl, Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|April
|Markarians chain
|Philipp Weber, Steven Hämmerich, Marie Prucker, Martin Reh
|
|-
|May
|Türgriff
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|June
|M16
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|July
|Nacht Wolken
|Phillip Weber
|
|-
|August
|Cygnus region
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|September
|Milky way
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|Oktober
|The Sun
|
|
|-
|November
|NGC 869
|Philipp Weber, Eva von Gemünden, Theresa Heindl, Steven Hämmerich,
|
|-
|December
|LOFAR
|Steven Hämmerich, Philipp Weber
|
|}

== Calendar 2025 ==
*number of copies: 300?
*Aurora again
*NGC6888
*Comet spring 2024
*M51
*NGC7635 region
*M31?
*M63
*IC5146
*domes
*cygnus?
*mega moon
*Eva and Philipp milky way
*remeis on tour roehn
*beehive
{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
|Aurora
|
|
|-
|January
|C2022/E3 (ZTF)
|Philipp Weber und irgendein Typ im Wohnwagen
|
|-
|February
|Remeis on tour
| Philipp Weber
|
|-
|March
|Leo Tripplet
|Philipp Weber, Theresa Heindl, Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|April
|Markarians chain
|Philipp Weber, Steven Hämmerich, Marie Prucker, Martin Reh
|
|-
|May
|Türgriff
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|June
|M16
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|July
|Nacht Wolken
|Phillip Weber
|
|-
|August
|Cygnus region
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|September
|Milky way
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|Oktober
|The Sun
|
|
|-
|November
|NGC 869
|Philipp Weber, Eva von Gemünden, Theresa Heindl, Steven Hämmerich,
|
|-
|December
|LOFAR
|Steven Hämmerich, Philipp Weber
|
|}

== Calendar 2026 ==
*ordered on 10.10.25 from viaprinto
*number of copies: 250
*cost: 631,21€ (with 10% coupon code)
*order specifications: Wandkalender A3 quer, Papierqualität 170g Bilderdruck glanz
*pdf version: [[Media:Remeis cal 2026.pdf]]

{| class="wikitable"
! Month
! Picture
! Photographer
! Photo
|-
|Titlepage
|Dome panorama
|Marie Prucker
|[[File:Cover_cut.png|300px]]
|-
|January
|Crab Nebula (M1)
|Federico Zangrandi, Katharina Jurk
|[[File:M1_cut.png|300px]]
|-
|February
|Rosette Nebula
|Martin Reh, Marie Prucker
|[[File:Rosette_Nebula.png|300px]]
|-
|March
|The Moon
|Jakob Stierhof
|[[File:Moon_cut_compressed.jpg|300px]]
|-
|April
|Meridian Building in Spring
|Sara Saeedi
|[[File:Flowers.png|300px]]
|-
|May
|Rainbow above Bamberg
|Steven Hämmerich
|[[File:Rainbow_cut.png|300px]]
|-
|June
|NGC7380
|Federico Zangrandi, Karan Pal, Martin Reh, Marie Prucker, Astronomy Lab Students
|[[File:Wizard.png|300px]]
|-
|July
|NGC7331 and Stephan’s Quintet
|Federico Zangrandi, Martin Reh, Marie Prucker
|[[File:Stephans5.png|300px]]
|-
|August
|Rhön Mountains
|Katharina Jurk
|[[File:Rhoen.jpg|300px]]
|-
|September
|M33
|Federico Zangrandi, Karan Pal, Martin Reh, Marie Prucker, Philipp Weber, Astronomy Lab Students
|[[File:M33.png|300px]]
|-
|Oktober
|Spider's Web at the Observatory Gate
|Manami Sasaki
|[[File:Spiderweb_cut.png|300px]]
|-
|November
|Andromeda (M31)
|Martin Reh, Philipp Weber
|[[File:Andromeda_cut.png|300px]]
|-
|December
|Neowise (C/2020 F3)
|Martin Reh
|[[File:Neowise_cut.png|300px]]
|}

== Calendar 2027 ==
List of possible pictures:
*Orion (M42)
*Christmas Tree Nebula (NGC2264)
*Fireworks Galaxy (NGC6946)
*Aurora over Bamberg
*Rainbow over the dome
*Flaming Star Nebula (IC405)
*Observatory covered in snow
*Spaghetti Nebula?
*IC2574?
*some Galaxy Cluster?
*NGC1333
*Pacman Nebula?
*NGC2174 (monkey head) from garden
*Picture of the sun moving across the sky
*Eclipse?

== Future pictures ==
List of possible future pictures to be used for calendars.
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Astrophotography (ready to use):
{| class="wikitable"
! Photo
! by
! planned use / comments / opinions
|-
|NGC281
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber
|
|-
|NGC7635 in HSO
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber
|
|-
|M51 (new edit)
|Eva von Gemünden, Philipp Weber, or Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|Moon (full)
|Tamara Loeffen, Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|Moon (half)
|Jakob Stierhof
|
|-
|soul nebula
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|Pelican Nebula
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|bubble nebular (Hubble)
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|M104
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|M97
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|M57
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|M64
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|Markarian's Chain
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
|M42
|Philipp Weber, etc
|different versions are available
|-
|double cluster
|Philipp Weber
|
|-
| Pillars of creation ([[M16 (Observations)]])
| Philipp Weber
|
|}
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Building and garden (ready to use):
{| class="wikitable"
! Photo
! by
! planned use / comments / opinions
|-
|Startrails dome (hochformat)
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|Sun rises
|Philipp Weber, Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|domes during sunset/sunrise
|Philipp Weber, Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|domes at night
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|insight of dome during observations
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|Meridian cellar
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|Dogs at the observatory
|Manami Sasaki
|
|-
|Building/garden
|Sara Saeedi
|
|-
|detail pictures (e.g. handles of gate)
|?
|
|-
|Bamberg through window
|Steven Hämmerich
|
|-
|Doors
|Sara?
|
|-
|Building
|Tamara Loeffen pics like [https://ironleaves-design.com/index.php/design/project-moonlanding/ this]
|
|}
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Planned Astrophotography projects (not yet ready):
{| class="wikitable"
! Object
! planned use / comments / opinions
|-
|Christmas tree cluster/ Cone nebula (NGC 2264)
|would be nice for December in future calendar
|}

Remeis observation guide

2026-04-28T16:13:50Z

Zangrandi:

[[Category:Current Members]]
This page should contain information and tips & tricks about what to do to obtain beautiful images from planets, nebula, galaxies, etc pp.

We are equipped with two important cameras: the astronomical CCD camera [http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/large_format_cameras.htm SBIG STL-11000M] and the consumer DSLR camera [http://www.canon.de/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_1000D/ Canon EOS 1000D].

= Moravian C4-16000 =
The new camera for imaging in the EHT is the Moravian C4-16000. The camera has a CMOS detector with size of 4096x4096 pixels. Each pixel has a size of 9x9 micrometer that means a sensor of 37 × 37 mm. The camera has an effective pixel depth of 16bit which is obtained by combined the high and low gain mode. The gain values of the two mode are fixed, and two set of calibration frames has to be used in order to calibrate the images.

The C4-16000 can be used with or without reducer. The reducer is an optical system which reduce the focal length of the telescope by a factor of 0.66. Using the reducer improves the sampling rate of the camera, and it increases the FoV from approximately 0.60 deg to 0.91 deg.

= SBIG STL-11000M =
As all astronomical CCD cameras, the ST11K does only obtain black/white images, i.e. to obtain color images one needs to make images with different filter wheels and combine them later using software like [[:Category:Isis / Slang|ISIS]] or [http://www.msb-astroart.com/ AstroArt].

See the [[observation log]] for an overview of what has been achieved so far.

The ST11K has a 11 Mpixel 36 x 24.7 mm CCD sensor.

== Field of View ==
The Field of View (FoV) when attached to the '''40cm MEADE telescope''' (f/10) is 0.52° x 0.35° i.e.,''' 31.0′ x 21.1′'''. Or, if the camera is oriented in a way that North is up, i.e. the camera is attached to the telescope so that its one side is parallel to the mounting, we can express the FoV in minutes of RA and DEC (where RA is given in hours rather than degrees): RA 0h 2.1′ x DEC 0° 21.1′. This information is helpful when comparing the FoV to the image in Stellarium displayed in equatorial mount mode.

When attached to the '''51cm telescope''' (f/6.8) the FoV is '''35.9′ x 23.94′'''.

For comparison, the former '''60cm telescope''' (f/18) has '''11.5′ x 7.8′''' (RA 0h 0.76′ x DEC 0° 7.8′).

== Regenerating the Desiccant ==
The ST11K has a small container of desiccant inside to reduce the (air) humidity. This avoids the growing of ice on the CCD. The desiccant is, however, saturated after some time and has to be regenerated: 
1. Open the camera by removing the screws on the front. Be careful not to touch any filter on the filter wheel, which is mounted at the back of the front plate. 
2. Remove the desiccant container mounted at the right of the CCD chamber (see picture). 
4. Close the resulting hole in the chamber with tape to avoid dust to flow in. 
5. "Bake" it in an oven (e.g. in the kitchen of the meridianbuilding) for 4 hours at 175°C. 
6. Attach the container (after it cooled down, of course) back to the CCD chamber and close the camera.

= Canon EOS 1000D =
Being a very recent addition to the Remeis imaging crew (Fall 2010) not so many pictures were yet taken with the Canon. It's big advantage over the ST11K is that color images are obtained directly, making the post-processing much easier and more beginner friendly. Its huge disadvantage is the higher noise-level and that all images are already strongly processed by the internal computers, so that astrometry or photometry is impossible. In January 2011 it was modified by Canon to be more sensitive in the Infrared, a so-called Astro-Mod.

The Canon has a 10.1 Mpixel 22.2 x 14.8 mm CMOS sensor.

== Field of View ==
When attached to the '''40cm MEADE telescope''' (f/10) the FoV is 0.32° x 0.21° i.e.,''' 19.1′ x 12.7′'''. 
Attached to the '''60cm telescope''' (f/18) the FoV is '''7.07′ x 4.71′'''.

How to BBQ

2025-07-03T08:25:59Z

Zangrandi:

== How to use the BBQ ==

Setting up the BBQ with a proper charcoal fire has often proven a bit tricky. In order not to embarrass yourself in front of the hungry masses, here are the steps to follow and what to look out for.

* Make sure the equipment is there. Everything (starter chimney, leather gloves, matches, leftover charcoal briquettes and wood-wax-based fire starter ("Grillanzuender") ) should be in the meridian basement opposite of the door.
* Buy more charcoal or starter if the storage is low. Using paper to start does not work. Briquettes are better than regular charcoal due to increased ventilation and they will burn longer.
* The chimney needs additional air to be able to enter from below. Prepare a BBQ grate, either the main one or the small round one with a bit of air underneath.
* On the BBQ grate from above, place starter cubes (3 should work). Fill the chimney with coal to the top (not over it), set the starter on fire and place the chimney on top.
* Once the coal on the top starts burning, the chimney can be emptied onto the BBQ.
* For more than about 6 people, fill and fire up the chimney again to make sure there is enough coal burning

There are a few things to look out for:
* You may notice too late that there is no starter left. So have we. Paper will smoke and block its own oxygen before burning properly, so just go and buy some
* If the chimney does not pull enough air, make sure it is placed on a grate, as stated above
* In dry times, keep a bit of water ready next to the grill - we have managed to spill burning coal on the grass in the past. Watering cans should be in the workshop

!!! IF YOU USE THE STARTER CHIMNEY, DO NOT USE IT ON THE GROUND. ONLY ON THE GRILL. THE GROUND SOME TIMES IS FLAMMABLE !!!!

The are two grills: one made of bricks in the garden and the second one is a portable grill, which is stored under the imaging dome (50cm, blue-black telescope). The portable barbecue has 2 grids inside; the upper one is supposed to support the food. The lower grid is supposed to hold the burning coal. If you put the coal below the lower grid, no air can feed the fire, and the coal is wasted. The ashes will then be automatically collected in a container below.

[[Category:Current Members]]

PhD Hat Dominic

2024-01-31T14:36:47Z

Zangrandi:

[[Category:Internal]]
'''Info'''

'''Hat:'''

30x30cm platform (top), 15cm tube (base) Umfang: ??cm -> Steven

'''General:'''
*social media
*insta walk
*Bernreuther Dominic Social Media (BDSM) → Steven (''' to print''')
*tours and desperate wish to find a new guide planetarium half globe with clay planets → Aafia
*CCD -> print the most bulshit stuff written on the student report (?!)
*FRANCI (logo) → Steven (''' to print''')
*Christmass party (wok) → Ekaterina
*2bros and scam
*V2 rocket → Steven (''' to print''')
*car ford ka → knunchkugle (spherical car)
* Australia, Norway, fire etc. -> Australia Kangaroo upside down ('''DONE''')
*Australia -> map with "I can walk so far" ('''To print''')
* meeting Manami in the bakery → Ekaterina

'''science:'''

*training → lightbulbe -> Federico ('''DONE ''')
*Machine learning → pins colored representing layers of neural network connected with strings → Jonathan,Ole
*Bscan (actual Bee ) → Amy ('''DONE''')
*Bscam (Bubble Scanning Algorith [Module] Music) → Federico drive (not necessary)
*B - scam (scam emails) → Caro (/home/collischon/Documents/scammails.txt) -> ('''DONE''')
*bubble plastic with pictures of SNR → Jonathan ('''DONE''')
*soap bubbles as a tassle → Ole
*barcode scanner → Philipp
*blazar image (in the kitchen) → Steven (''' to print''')
* meme on the number of simulation -> Martin ('''DONE''')
* pool picture

'''Personal:'''
*Remeis coint (crypto currency) → Philipp
*?girlfriend has mushrooms he don't?
*mushroom picture, many mushrooms find the SNR (?)
*singing metal (tiny microphone) -> Federico ('''DONE''')
*or playing metal (mini instruments) →
*container houses -> globe with houses on top ('''DONE''')
*tiny houses around the word
*mountain bike
*motor bike (suzuki (susi)) mini models, probably 1st gen (1999—2002) SV650
*whiskey
*limoncello → paper bottle with bright yellow -> Katharina J. ('''DONE''')
*riesen (big riesen packed in another big riesen) (bunch of riesen that are found insted of the bubble) → Martin ('''DONE''')
*(horrible)chicken at the Rewe

[[Category:Internal]]

PhD Hat Dominic

2024-01-31T10:50:10Z

Zangrandi:

[[Category:Internal]]
'''Info'''

'''Hat:'''

30x30cm platform (top), 15cm tube (base) Umfang: ??cm -> Steven

'''General:'''
*social media
*insta walk
*Bernreuther Dominic Social Media (BDSM) → Steven (''' to print''')
*tours and desperate wish to find a new guide planetarium half globe with clay planets → Aafia
*CCD -> print the most bulshit stuff written on the student report (?!)
*FRANCI (logo) → Steven (''' to print''')
*Christmass party (wok) → Ekaterina
*2bros and scam
*V2 rocket → Steven (''' to print''')
*car ford ka → knunchkugle (spherical car)
* Australia, Norway, fire etc. -> Australia Kangaroo upside down ('''DONE''')
*Australia -> map with "I can walk so far" ('''To print''')
* meeting Manami in the bakery → Ekaterina

'''science:'''

*training → lightbulbe -> Federico ('''DONE ''')
*Machine learning → pins colored representing layers of neural network connected with strings → Jonathan,Ole
*Bscan (actual Bee ) → Amy ('''DONE''')
*Bscam (Bubble Scanning Algorith [Module] Music) → Federico drive (not necessary)
*B - scam (scam emails) → Caro (/home/collischon/Documents/scammails.txt) -> ('''DONE''')
*bubble plastic with pictures of SNR → Jonathan ('''DONE''')
*soap bubbles as a tassle → Ole
*barcode scanner → Philipp
*blazar image (in the kitchen) → Steven (''' to print''')
* meme on the number of simulation -> Martin ('''DONE''')

'''Personal:'''
*Remeis coint (crypto currency) → Philipp
*?girlfriend has mushrooms he don't?
*mushroom picture, many mushrooms find the SNR (?)
*singing metal (tiny microphone) -> Federico ('''DONE''')
*or playing metal (mini instruments) →
*container houses -> globe with houses on top ('''DONE''')
*tiny houses around the word
*mountain bike
*motor bike (suzuki (susi)) mini models, probably 1st gen (1999—2002) SV650
*whiskey
*limoncello → paper bottle with bright yellow -> Katharina J. ('''DONE''')
*riesen (big riesen packed in another big riesen) (bunch of riesen that are found insted of the bubble) → Martin ('''DONE''')
*(horrible)chicken at the Rewe

[[Category:Internal]]

PhD Hat Dominic

2024-01-31T10:20:29Z

Zangrandi:

[[Category:Internal]]
'''Info'''

'''Hat:'''

30x30cm platform (top), 15cm tube (base) Umfang: ??cm -> Steven

'''General:'''
*social media
*insta walk
*Bernreuther Dominic Social Media (BDSM) → Steven
*tours and desperate wish to find a new guide planetarium half globe with clay planets → Aafia
*CCD -> print the most bulshit stuff written on the student report (?!)
*FRANCI (logo) → Steven
*Christmass party (wok)
*2bros and scam
*V2 rocket → Steven
*car ford ka → knunchkugle (spherical car)
* Australia, Norway, fire etc. -> Australia Kangaroo upside down ('''DONE''')
* meeting Manami in the bakery

'''science:'''

*training → lightbulbe -> Federico ('''DONE ''')
*Machine learning → pins colored representing layers of neural network connected with strings → Jonathan,Ole
*Bscan (actual Bee ) → Amy ('''DONE''')
*Bscam (Bubble Scanning Algorith [Module] Music) → Federico drive (not necessary)
*B - scam (scam emails) → Caro (/home/collischon/Documents/scammails.txt) -> ('''DONE''')
*bubble plastic with pictures of SNR → Jonathan ('''DONE''')
*soap bubbles as a tassle → Ole
*barcode scanner → Philipp
*blazar image (in the kitchen) → Steven
* meme on the number of simulation -> Martin ('''DONE''')

'''Personal:'''
*Remeis coint (crypto currency) → Philipp
*?girlfriend has mushrooms he don't?
*mushroom picture, many mushrooms find the SNR (?)
*singing metal (tiny microphone) -> Federico ('''DONE''')
*or playing metal (mini instruments) →
*container houses -> globe with houses on top ('''DONE''')
*tiny houses around the word
*mountain bike
*motor bike (suzuki (susi)) mini models, probably 1st gen (1999—2002) SV650
*whiskey
*limoncello → paper bottle with bright yellow -> Katharina J.
*riesen (big riesen packed in another big riesen) (bunch of riesen that are found insted of the bubble) → Martin ('''DONE''')
*(horrible)chicken at the Rewe

[[Category:Internal]]

PhD Hat Dominic

2024-01-31T10:19:16Z

Zangrandi:

[[Category:Internal]]
'''Info'''

'''Hat:'''

30x30cm platform (top), 15cm tube (base) Umfang: ??cm -> Steven

'''General:'''
*social media
*insta walk
*Bernreuther Dominic Social Media (BDSM) → Steven
*tours and desperate wish to find a new guide planetarium half globe with clay planets → Aafia
*CCD
*FRANCI (logo) → Steven
*Christmass party (wok)
*2bros and scam
*V2 rocket → Steven
*car ford ka → knunchkugle (spherical car)
* Australia, Norway, fire etc. -> Australia Kangaroo upside down ('''DONE''')
* meeting Manami in the bakery

'''science:'''

*training → lightbulbe -> Federico ('''DONE ''')
*Machine learning → pins colored representing layers of neural network connected with strings → Jonathan,Ole
*Bscan (actual Bee ) → Amy ('''DONE''')
*Bscam (Bubble Scanning Algorith [Module] Music) → Federico drive (not necessary)
*B - scam (scam emails) → Caro (/home/collischon/Documents/scammails.txt) -> ('''DONE''')
*bubble plastic with pictures of SNR → Jonathan ('''DONE''')
*soap bubbles as a tassle → Ole
*barcode scanner → Philipp
*blazar image (in the kitchen) → Steven
* meme on the number of simulation -> Martin ('''DONE''')

'''Personal:'''
*Remeis coint (crypto currency) → Philipp
*?girlfriend has mushrooms he don't?
*mushroom picture, many mushrooms find the SNR (?)
*singing metal (tiny microphone) -> Federico ('''DONE''')
*or playing metal (mini instruments) →
*container houses -> globe with houses on top ('''DONE''')
*tiny houses around the word
*mountain bike
*motor bike (suzuki (susi)) mini models, probably 1st gen (1999—2002) SV650
*whiskey
*limoncello → paper bottle with bright yellow -> Katharina J.
*riesen (big riesen packed in another big riesen) (bunch of riesen that are found insted of the bubble) → Martin ('''DONE''')
*(horrible)chicken at the Rewe

[[Category:Internal]]

PhD Hat Dominic

2024-01-31T10:17:10Z

Zangrandi:

[[Category:Internal]]
'''Info'''

'''Hat:'''

30x30cm platform (top), 15cm tube (base) Umfang: ??cm -> Steven

'''General:'''
*social media
*insta walk
*Bernreuther Dominic Social Media (BDSM) → Steven
*tours and desperate wish to find a new guide planetarium half globe with clay planets → Aafia
*CCD
*FRANCI (logo) → Steven
*Christmass party (wok)
*2bros and scam
*V2 rocket → Steven
*car ford ka → knunchkugle (spherical car)
* Australia, Norway, fire etc. -> Australia Kangaroo upside down ('''DONE''')
* meeting Manami in the bakery

'''science:'''

*training → lightbulbe -> Federico ('''DONE ''')
*Machine learning → pins colored representing layers of neural network connected with strings → Jonathan,Ole
*Bscan (actual Bee ) → Amy ('''DONE''')
*Bscam (Bubble Scanning Algorith [Module] Music) → Federico drive (not necessary)
*B - scam (scam emails) → Caro (/home/collischon/Documents/scammails.txt) -> ('''DONE''')
*bubble plastic with pictures of SNR → Jonathan ('''DONE''')
*soap bubbles as a tassle → Ole
*barcode scanner → Philipp
*blazar image (in the kitchen) → Steven

'''Personal:'''
*Remeis coint (crypto currency) → Philipp
*?girlfriend has mushrooms he don't?
*mushroom picture, many mushrooms find the SNR (?)
*singing metal (tiny microphone) -> Federico ('''DONE''')
*or playing metal (mini instruments) →
*container houses -> globe with houses on top ('''DONE''')
*tiny houses around the word
*mountain bike
*motor bike (suzuki (susi)) mini models, probably 1st gen (1999—2002) SV650
*whiskey
*limoncello → paper bottle with bright yellow -> Katharina J.
*riesen (big riesen packed in another big riesen) (bunch of riesen that are found insted of the bubble) → Martin ('''DONE''')
*(horrible)chicken at the Rewe

[[Category:Internal]]

Guided Tours and Public Outreach

2023-12-07T09:57:37Z

Zangrandi: /* Monthly public tours */

On this pages you can find all information needed to guide a tour through our observatory for public people.

At least, that's the aim of this page, so please add information if you think its missing!

= Platform =

'''The following is important:''' 
Tours are officially '''organized''' by the [http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de Foerderverein of the observatory], but '''operated''' by the observatory staff to be insured through the university!

The main platform for the general public is [http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de/fuehrungen http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de/fuehrungen].

Here, tours can be ordered in two different ways:
* single persons and smaller groups can directly book public and regular guided tours via our webform at https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/guided-tours/
* larger groups may directly ask for a tour at a separate date either by email to [mailto:fuehrungen@foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de fuehrungen@foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de] or by phone. The email address is a forwarding to a certain person of the mailing list (see below).

The source code of the webform for booking a public tour can be found in the GIT repository at 
[https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/gitlab/webmaster/guided-tours https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/gitlab/webmaster/guided-tours]. 
All pushes to the master branch are automatically deployed at the official URL above!

== Mailing List / Current "staff" ==

All people interested in giving guided tours are member of the mailing list 
[mailto:astro-fuehrungen@lists.fau.de astro-fuehrungen@lists.fau.de] 
Please '''do not share''' this address with anybody outside of the observatory!
If you're not on the list but interested in giving tours, just ask Max to add you :-)

New tours without a guide yet are usually announced via this list. See [[Mailing lists]] for the list administrator.

In charge of organization:
* Katrin

Currently, the following people give tours on a regular basis:
* Steven
* Christian
* Aafia
* Amy
* Julia
* Philipp T.
* Alexey
* Katharina

= Tip policy =

The group is informed beforehand about the rule of tip.
For the guides the following applies for the money you get during the tour:
During the week (Monday till Friday) the factor for the donation, which goes directly to the Foerderverein, is 1/3 (33%), the rest (2/3) is your personal tip.
For weekend tours (Saturday, Sunday) the factor for the donation is 1/4 (25%).

Make sure to hand in the donations immediately after your tour. Put the money on Ingos desk with a note stating which tour you gave, how much you received and how many people were there.

= Offering Tours =

At some point you're perhaps asked to give a tour or if it is possible to have one on a specific date. The latter might occur if Edith is out of her office and her telephone is redirected. In those cases you should know ''and'' check following things:
* '''Who is asking''' for a tour? If you're on the phone ask for a name and write down the phone number where the person can be called!
* The '''number of people should be between 15 and 25'''. Of course, the boundary conditions depend on the person guiding the tour. In a case of doubt, ask the guide or, if none is found yet, you simply can't promise that there will be a tour! In that case you may offer to look for a guide giving the tour anyway (and call the person back), but again don't make any promises! A list of people offering tours can be found below.
* What is the '''average age of the persons attending''' the tour? That's an important point since the content of a tour differs between children and adults, of course. Furthermore some guides have favorite age groups!
* Carefully check the '''date and time of the tour'''!
** It's most likely to find a guide if the weekday of a tour is '''between Monday and Thursday'''. Friday might work if it is before noon, otherwise people might be on the way into the weekend. In all other cases you may offer to look for a guide giving the tour anyway (see the point about the group size above).
** Make sure that there is '''no tour scheduled already'''! For that look into our online calendar (the link can be found below) and on the whiteboard in the copying machine office.
** Related to the last point ensure that there is '''no lab course''' running at the date! The lab course is also marked in our online calendar.
** Usually, a tour will take '''about 1.5 to 2 hours'''.
* Clarify the '''costs for a tour''' beforehand!! Unfortunately, we are '''not allowed to ask for money''' for giving a tour! The only way for getting money is to tell the people that they are welcomed to '''donate money to the [http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de/| Foerderverein der Sternwarte]'''. In nearly every case the people or the one asking for a tour will pay something. A rule of thumb is that '''every person donates 3 EUR''' (for children 2 EUR are alright as well). __For your ears only__: 1 EUR per attended person of the donated money will be transferred to the Förderverein (the current treasurer is Ingo, leave the money on his desk with a short note stating the number of people and what kind of a tour this was), the rest is for the guide! There will be a contact phone-number available, best would be to call the contacts-person before the tour to tell them these infos...
* '''Observing with our telescopes''' is possible, of course, but only in case of '''night and cloudless weather'''! No kidding, some people are not aware of these facts... ("The day is too bright to see stars.", "I'm sorry, we can't look trough the clouds.", "The weather forecast is too uncertain, we can't promise.") Please check if someone else has already signed in for one of the telescopes on the day/night of the guided tour! '''IMPORTANT:''' Be aware that you are not allowed to operate the telescopes on you own, there ALWAYS has to be at least a second person around. To assure that, you either have to have a second person from the observatory present (at least in the main building) or you have to set up AND disassemble everything while the people from the tour are there. Otherwise no observations are allowed to take place!
* If all the above points are clarified '''mark the tour''' in our [https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/calendar/ online calendar] and the whiteboard in the copying machine office. You have to be at a machine at the observatory to have access to the online calendar (to be more precisely: you're machine has to have an internal IP-address). The entry into the online calendar, besides the date and time, should include "for whom is the tour and the group size, contact person and phone number, name of the guide giving the tour". The whiteboard template is as follows: "date, for whom is the tour, time, guide"

= Giving a tour =

Each tour has several stations, where you can show things or talk to the people. Useful information and experiences about that is listed below. It might be helpful as well to read the article about [[intern:popular_science:start|popular science]] in case you want or have to (if somebody asks) explain scientific aspects.

== Preparation ==

'''Before the tour'''
* Shut the doors of all offices in the main building (at least on the ground level) for several reasons: people are not allowed to walk in there and some of us are still working there during tours!
* Remove the northern hemisphere from the model of the inner solar system located in the entrance hall (you may put it into the Knigge room)
* Switch the lights on you need:
** entrance hall
** meteorite showcase (switch is on the right next to it)
** hallway to the meridian building; here are multiple switches
*** main light: right next to the door of the hallway or the backdoor of the main building (labeled "Meridian")
*** info panels: on the opposite wall to the door next to the blue cupboard
*** showcases and Blinkkomparator: in the cutout box up the few stairs on the right wall close to the library, labeled "Linke Steckdosen"
* In case of observations
** make sure that you are '''never''' alone in the domes! There always have to be at least two people present.
** carry the needed oculars into the domes (for observations with the naked eye, the 40cm telescope is strongly recommended)
** do __not__ open the domes (first, it might start raining while nobody is there, and it's more fun for you to let the people do it)
** do __not__ remove the dust covers of the telescopes (wait until the dome has been opened)
** read the [[remeis:start|guide how to operate the telescopes and mountings]]
** after observing: shut down the telescope mounting, put the dust covers back on and close the domes
* In case of showing nice pictures
** make sure enough chairs are available
** switch on the beamer in the library, log into the machine and start your presentation, picture-viewer, ...

'''After the tour'''
* Switch the lights off
* Logout of the used machines and switch the beamer off
* Put on the dust covers of the telescopes in the hallway
* Protect the photo plates on the Blinkkomparator from getting dusty
* '''Move the entry from the whiteboard''' in the copying machine office '''to the list attached to the pin-board''' next to it

== Material and Presentations ==
*Collected information valuable for guided tours: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours'' and ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/guidedtour.pdf''

*A merger of (picture/video) presentations given at guided tours: ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/guidedtour.odp''

*and according videos in ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/videos/''

*Research and activities at Remeis from the radio to the gamma-rays (Tobi Beuchert): ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Andrea_tour_material/observations_allwavelength_remeisresearch_beuchert.pdf''

*A presentation showing the astrophotography done at the observatory: ''/data/media/slideshow_astrophotographie/optische_Quellen.pdf''

*A video tour with Joern: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Joerns_example_tour''

*A video tour with Uli (only hallway): ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Ulis_example_tour_hall_2019''

*A complete tour by Sebastian Müller: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Sebastians_example_tour''

*Presentations for tours by Andrea Gokus: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Andrea_tour_material'' Contains presentations about the solar system (solar_system.pdf), neutrinos (neutrino_talk.pdf), overview of different objet types (impressions_universe.pdf)

*Andreas tour notes: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Andrea_tour_material/Sternwarten_Fuehrungsnotizen.pdf''

*Amys tour notes: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Guided_Tour_Information_Amy.pdf''

*Tobis tour notes: ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/guidedtour.pdf''

*Information on clocks: ''/data/media/history/2009-01_KlassikUhren_Poehlmann_Max_Ort.pdf''

*Information on history of the observatory and the collection: ''/data/media/history/AstronomischeSammlung.pdf''

*History of the observatory (Litten): ''/data/media/history/Litten-1.pdf'' ''/data/media/history/Litten-2.pdf''

*Last will of Dr. Karl Remeis: ''/data/media/history/Testament_Karl_Remeis.pdf''

*Die Remeis-Sternwarte zu Bamberg 1889-1939, E. Zinner: [https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1939VeBam...4....1Z&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf ADS]

== Picture presentation ==

There are different modes for the beamer (e.g. presentation, videos, graphics etc.) which result in a different appearance of the images. Make sure to select a presentation mode in which the pictures appear in an appropriate brightness on the screen. (I think "graphics" was a good one).

== Telescopes in the domes ==
It's nice to show the main mirror to the people so that they can see themselves. To do so, just turn down the telescope in declination. This is only possible for the 40cm as the 50cm-Mount has a mechanical stop.

Sometimes people want to know what we do with the tiny, little telescopes attached on the side of the big ones. Those are guiding-scopes. You can attach a camera to them and let it take pictures of one star. If the star moves (what it shouldn't do) a correction signal is sent to the mount to compensate the movement of the star. Stars can "move" in an image for example due to impreciseness of the mount.

The (dusty) plate in front of the 40cm mirror is called "Schmid-Platte". It is used to improve the imaging of the telescope and to correct several errors of the mirrors like coma and field-curvature. As it is very sensitive to scratching, it won't be cleaned and left dusty. But the dust has hardly any effect on the images as it lays far outside of the focusplane. The optical design is similar to a Ritchey-Chrétien type regarding the capability, but has a spherical main mirror, an aspherical secondary mirror and a lens-corrector (=Schmidt-plate). The price of the telescope and the mount is roughly about 25.000€ altogether.

The 50cm doesn't have a Schmid-Platte but a corrector (lenses) placed in the OAZ. It has an elliptical main mirror and a spherical secondary mirror (Corrected Dall Kirkham). The price of the telescope and the mount is roughly about 65.000€. The secondary mirror is, compared to the size of the main mirror, significantly larger than the 40cm-sec. mirror. This results in a better luminosity an a larger, flat-field which is important for taking images. We can achieve tracking accuracies of about 10min without guiding.

== Monthly public tours ==
NOTE: even if there is already someone listed for a tour, please enter you availability

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Language
! Time
! Type
! Available Guides
! Backup

|-
| 2023/12/05
| English
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Federico
| Philipp, Katharina

|-
| 2023/12/12
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children
|
|

|-
| 2023/12/19
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Philipp
|

|-
| 2024/01/09
| English
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Federico
|

|-
| 2024/01/19
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children (option 1)
|
|

|-
| 2024/01/23
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children (option 2)
|
|

|-
| 2024/01/30
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
|
|

|-
| 2024/02/06
| English
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Federico
|

|-
| 2024/02/13
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children
|
|

|-
| 2024/02/27
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
|
|

|}

== Tours looking for a guide ==
ATTENTION: tours are not sorted by the date of the tour, but the time when they were requested

NOTE: please enter you availability even if there is already another name listed.

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Language
! Time
! Organizer
! Additional information
! # People
! Observing
! Available Guides

|-
| 2023/12/11
| German
| staring 6:30pm
| Böttner
|
| ~ 15 adults
| yes
|

|}

== Observing ==

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[[Category:Internal]]
'''Info'''

'''Hat:'''

30x30cm platform (top), 15cm tube (base) Umfang: ??cm -> Steven

'''General:'''
social media
insta walk
Bernreuther Dominic Social Media (BDSM) → Steven
tours and desperate wish to find a new guide planetarium half globe with clay planets → Aafia
CCD
FRANCI (logo) → Steven
Christmass party (wok)
2bros and scam
V2 rocket → Steven
car ford ka → knunchkugle (spherical car)
'''science:'''

training → lightbulbe
Machine learning → pins colored representing layers of neural network connected with strings →→ Jonathan,Ole
Bscan (actual Bee ) → Amy
Bscam (Bubble Scanning Algorith [Module] Music) → Federico drive
bubble plastic with pictures of SNR → Jonathan
soap bubbles as a tassle → Ole
magnifier lens
barcode scanner → Philipp
blazar image (in the kitchen) → Steven

'''Personal:'''
Remeis coint (crypto currency) → Philipp
?girlfriend has mushrooms he don't?
mushroom picture, many mushrooms find the SNR (?)
singing metal (tiny microphone)
or playing metal (mini instruments) →
container houses
tiny houses around the word
mountain bike
motor bike (suzuki (susi)) mini models
whiskey
frozen pizza
limoncello → paper bottle with bright yellow
riesen (big riesen packed in another big riesen) (bunch of riesen that are found insted of the bubble) → Martin
(horrible)chicken at the Rewe
[[Category:Internal]]

Guided Tours and Public Outreach

2023-11-13T11:11:20Z

Zangrandi: /* Monthly public tours */

On this pages you can find all information needed to guide a tour through our observatory for public people.

At least, that's the aim of this page, so please add information if you think its missing!

= Platform =

'''The following is important:''' 
Tours are officially '''organized''' by the [http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de Foerderverein of the observatory], but '''operated''' by the observatory staff to be insured through the university!

The main platform for the general public is [http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de/fuehrungen http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de/fuehrungen].

Here, tours can be ordered in two different ways:
* single persons and smaller groups can directly book public and regular guided tours via our webform at https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/guided-tours/
* larger groups may directly ask for a tour at a separate date either by email to [mailto:fuehrungen@foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de fuehrungen@foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de] or by phone. The email address is a forwarding to a certain person of the mailing list (see below).

The source code of the webform for booking a public tour can be found in the GIT repository at 
[https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/gitlab/webmaster/guided-tours https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/gitlab/webmaster/guided-tours]. 
All pushes to the master branch are automatically deployed at the official URL above!

== Mailing List / Current "staff" ==

All people interested in giving guided tours are member of the mailing list 
[mailto:astro-fuehrungen@lists.fau.de astro-fuehrungen@lists.fau.de] 
Please '''do not share''' this address with anybody outside of the observatory!
If you're not on the list but interested in giving tours, just ask Max to add you :-)

New tours without a guide yet are usually announced via this list. See [[Mailing lists]] for the list administrator.

In charge of organization:
* Katrin

Currently, the following people give tours on a regular basis:
* Steven
* Christian
* Aafia
* Amy
* Julia
* Philipp T.
* Alexey
* Katharina

= Tip policy =

The group is informed beforehand about the rule of tip.
For the guides the following applies for the money you get during the tour:
During the week (Monday till Friday) the factor for the donation, which goes directly to the Foerderverein, is 1/3 (33%), the rest (2/3) is your personal tip.
For weekend tours (Saturday, Sunday) the factor for the donation is 1/4 (25%).

Make sure to hand in the donations immediately after your tour. Put the money on Ingos desk with a note stating which tour you gave, how much you received and how many people were there.

= Offering Tours =

At some point you're perhaps asked to give a tour or if it is possible to have one on a specific date. The latter might occur if Edith is out of her office and her telephone is redirected. In those cases you should know ''and'' check following things:
* '''Who is asking''' for a tour? If you're on the phone ask for a name and write down the phone number where the person can be called!
* The '''number of people should be between 15 and 25'''. Of course, the boundary conditions depend on the person guiding the tour. In a case of doubt, ask the guide or, if none is found yet, you simply can't promise that there will be a tour! In that case you may offer to look for a guide giving the tour anyway (and call the person back), but again don't make any promises! A list of people offering tours can be found below.
* What is the '''average age of the persons attending''' the tour? That's an important point since the content of a tour differs between children and adults, of course. Furthermore some guides have favorite age groups!
* Carefully check the '''date and time of the tour'''!
** It's most likely to find a guide if the weekday of a tour is '''between Monday and Thursday'''. Friday might work if it is before noon, otherwise people might be on the way into the weekend. In all other cases you may offer to look for a guide giving the tour anyway (see the point about the group size above).
** Make sure that there is '''no tour scheduled already'''! For that look into our online calendar (the link can be found below) and on the whiteboard in the copying machine office.
** Related to the last point ensure that there is '''no lab course''' running at the date! The lab course is also marked in our online calendar.
** Usually, a tour will take '''about 1.5 to 2 hours'''.
* Clarify the '''costs for a tour''' beforehand!! Unfortunately, we are '''not allowed to ask for money''' for giving a tour! The only way for getting money is to tell the people that they are welcomed to '''donate money to the [http://foerderverein-sternwarte-bamberg.de/| Foerderverein der Sternwarte]'''. In nearly every case the people or the one asking for a tour will pay something. A rule of thumb is that '''every person donates 3 EUR''' (for children 2 EUR are alright as well). __For your ears only__: 1 EUR per attended person of the donated money will be transferred to the Förderverein (the current treasurer is Ingo, leave the money on his desk with a short note stating the number of people and what kind of a tour this was), the rest is for the guide! There will be a contact phone-number available, best would be to call the contacts-person before the tour to tell them these infos...
* '''Observing with our telescopes''' is possible, of course, but only in case of '''night and cloudless weather'''! No kidding, some people are not aware of these facts... ("The day is too bright to see stars.", "I'm sorry, we can't look trough the clouds.", "The weather forecast is too uncertain, we can't promise.") Please check if someone else has already signed in for one of the telescopes on the day/night of the guided tour! '''IMPORTANT:''' Be aware that you are not allowed to operate the telescopes on you own, there ALWAYS has to be at least a second person around. To assure that, you either have to have a second person from the observatory present (at least in the main building) or you have to set up AND disassemble everything while the people from the tour are there. Otherwise no observations are allowed to take place!
* If all the above points are clarified '''mark the tour''' in our [https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/calendar/ online calendar] and the whiteboard in the copying machine office. You have to be at a machine at the observatory to have access to the online calendar (to be more precisely: you're machine has to have an internal IP-address). The entry into the online calendar, besides the date and time, should include "for whom is the tour and the group size, contact person and phone number, name of the guide giving the tour". The whiteboard template is as follows: "date, for whom is the tour, time, guide"

= Giving a tour =

Each tour has several stations, where you can show things or talk to the people. Useful information and experiences about that is listed below. It might be helpful as well to read the article about [[intern:popular_science:start|popular science]] in case you want or have to (if somebody asks) explain scientific aspects.

== Preparation ==

'''Before the tour'''
* Shut the doors of all offices in the main building (at least on the ground level) for several reasons: people are not allowed to walk in there and some of us are still working there during tours!
* Remove the northern hemisphere from the model of the inner solar system located in the entrance hall (you may put it into the Knigge room)
* Switch the lights on you need:
** entrance hall
** meteorite showcase (switch is on the right next to it)
** hallway to the meridian building; here are multiple switches
*** main light: right next to the door of the hallway or the backdoor of the main building (labeled "Meridian")
*** info panels: on the opposite wall to the door next to the blue cupboard
*** showcases and Blinkkomparator: in the cutout box up the few stairs on the right wall close to the library, labeled "Linke Steckdosen"
* In case of observations
** make sure that you are '''never''' alone in the domes! There always have to be at least two people present.
** carry the needed oculars into the domes (for observations with the naked eye, the 40cm telescope is strongly recommended)
** do __not__ open the domes (first, it might start raining while nobody is there, and it's more fun for you to let the people do it)
** do __not__ remove the dust covers of the telescopes (wait until the dome has been opened)
** read the [[remeis:start|guide how to operate the telescopes and mountings]]
** after observing: shut down the telescope mounting, put the dust covers back on and close the domes
* In case of showing nice pictures
** make sure enough chairs are available
** switch on the beamer in the library, log into the machine and start your presentation, picture-viewer, ...

'''After the tour'''
* Switch the lights off
* Logout of the used machines and switch the beamer off
* Put on the dust covers of the telescopes in the hallway
* Protect the photo plates on the Blinkkomparator from getting dusty
* '''Move the entry from the whiteboard''' in the copying machine office '''to the list attached to the pin-board''' next to it

== Material and Presentations ==
*Collected information valuable for guided tours: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours'' and ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/guidedtour.pdf''

*A merger of (picture/video) presentations given at guided tours: ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/guidedtour.odp''

*and according videos in ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/videos/''

*Research and activities at Remeis from the radio to the gamma-rays (Tobi Beuchert): ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Andrea_tour_material/observations_allwavelength_remeisresearch_beuchert.pdf''

*A presentation showing the astrophotography done at the observatory: ''/data/media/slideshow_astrophotographie/optische_Quellen.pdf''

*A video tour with Joern: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Joerns_example_tour''

*A video tour with Uli (only hallway): ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Ulis_example_tour_hall_2019''

*A complete tour by Sebastian Müller: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Sebastians_example_tour''

*Presentations for tours by Andrea Gokus: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Andrea_tour_material'' Contains presentations about the solar system (solar_system.pdf), neutrinos (neutrino_talk.pdf), overview of different objet types (impressions_universe.pdf)

*Andreas tour notes: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Andrea_tour_material/Sternwarten_Fuehrungsnotizen.pdf''

*Amys tour notes: ''/data/media/presentations_for_guided_tours/Guided_Tour_Information_Amy.pdf''

*Tobis tour notes: ''/userdata/data/beuchert/work/teaching/guidedtour/presentation/guidedtour.pdf''

*Information on clocks: ''/data/media/history/2009-01_KlassikUhren_Poehlmann_Max_Ort.pdf''

*Information on history of the observatory and the collection: ''/data/media/history/AstronomischeSammlung.pdf''

*History of the observatory (Litten): ''/data/media/history/Litten-1.pdf'' ''/data/media/history/Litten-2.pdf''

*Last will of Dr. Karl Remeis: ''/data/media/history/Testament_Karl_Remeis.pdf''

*Die Remeis-Sternwarte zu Bamberg 1889-1939, E. Zinner: [https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1939VeBam...4....1Z&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf ADS]

== Picture presentation ==

There are different modes for the beamer (e.g. presentation, videos, graphics etc.) which result in a different appearance of the images. Make sure to select a presentation mode in which the pictures appear in an appropriate brightness on the screen. (I think "graphics" was a good one).

== Telescopes in the domes ==
It's nice to show the main mirror to the people so that they can see themselves. To do so, just turn down the telescope in declination. This is only possible for the 40cm as the 50cm-Mount has a mechanical stop.

Sometimes people want to know what we do with the tiny, little telescopes attached on the side of the big ones. Those are guiding-scopes. You can attach a camera to them and let it take pictures of one star. If the star moves (what it shouldn't do) a correction signal is sent to the mount to compensate the movement of the star. Stars can "move" in an image for example due to impreciseness of the mount.

The (dusty) plate in front of the 40cm mirror is called "Schmid-Platte". It is used to improve the imaging of the telescope and to correct several errors of the mirrors like coma and field-curvature. As it is very sensitive to scratching, it won't be cleaned and left dusty. But the dust has hardly any effect on the images as it lays far outside of the focusplane. The optical design is similar to a Ritchey-Chrétien type regarding the capability, but has a spherical main mirror, an aspherical secondary mirror and a lens-corrector (=Schmidt-plate). The price of the telescope and the mount is roughly about 25.000€ altogether.

The 50cm doesn't have a Schmid-Platte but a corrector (lenses) placed in the OAZ. It has an elliptical main mirror and a spherical secondary mirror (Corrected Dall Kirkham). The price of the telescope and the mount is roughly about 65.000€. The secondary mirror is, compared to the size of the main mirror, significantly larger than the 40cm-sec. mirror. This results in a better luminosity an a larger, flat-field which is important for taking images. We can achieve tracking accuracies of about 10min without guiding.

== Monthly public tours ==
NOTE: even if there is already someone listed for a tour, please enter you availability

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Language
! Time
! Type
! Available Guides
! Backup

|-
| 2023/11/14
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children
|
| Katharina

|-
| 2023/11/28
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Katharina
| Philipp

|-
| 2023/12/05
| English
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Federico
| Philipp, Katharina

|-
| 2023/12/12
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children
|
|

|-
| 2023/12/19
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
|
| Philipp

|-
| 2024/01/09
| English
| 6 pm
| normal tour
| Federico
|

|-
| 2024/01/19
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children (option 1)
|
|

|-
| 2024/01/23
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children (option 2)
|
|

|-
| 2024/01/30
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
|
|

|-
| 2024/02/06
| English
| 6 pm
| normal tour
|
|

|-
| 2024/02/13
| German
| 6 pm
| Tour for children
|
|

|-
| 2024/02/27
| German
| 6 pm
| normal tour
|
|

|}

== Tours looking for a guide ==
ATTENTION: tours are not sorted by the date of the tour, but the time when they were requested

NOTE: please enter you availability even if there is already another name listed.

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Language
! Time
! Organizer
! Additional information
! # People
! Observing
! Available Guides

|-
| 2023/12/14
| German
| 11am to 12:30pm
| DG school
| 5th grade
| 24 children and 2 adults
| no
|

|}

== Observing ==

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