Trebur Astronomy Foundation
Current
Observatory News
17.01.2025
Astronomy lectures again from 2025
After a longer break, there will be astronomy lectures on Fridays again from 14 February 2025. Six lectures are initially planned for 2025. The events start at 19:30 and admission is free. Door opens at 19:00.
Prof Dr Michael Kramer, Director - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany, will kick things off with a talk on pulsars and how they can help with gravitational wave research.
04.01.2025
YouTube Livestream
Unfortunately, the weather cancelled our live broadcast. But there are pictures of a similar event from 2 March 2007 in our archive.
20.12.2024
Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing
IV. Probing the regime of dynamical tides for GK host stars
G. Maciejewski, J. Golonka, M. Fernández, J. Ohlert, V. Casanova, and D. Pérez Medialdea
2024, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 692, A35, Dec. 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22162
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22162
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.22162
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452101
Events
Guided Tours
Public tours take place on the first and third Wednesday of every month, regardless of the weather. Reservations are not required, but we would still ask you to register using the contact form so that we can plan the tours better.
The next public guided tour will take place on:
Mittwoch, 05.02.2025, 19:00 Uhr
Further Events
14.02.2025, 19:30 Uhr
The Hum of Space-Time
Prof. Dr. Michael Kramer
Director - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
Pulsars, the natural beacons of the universe, put physics to the test. As neutron stars, they are not only the densest objects in the observable universe, but also serve as high-precision laboratories for testing the general theory of relativity.
11.04.2025, 19:30 Uhr
Cosmic Alchemy of the Elements - The First 14 Billion Years of the Universe
Professor Karlheinz Langanke, GSI/FAIR
It began in the first minutes of the Big Bang, when the atomic nuclei of the elements hydrogen, helium and lithium were already forming. So that electrons could be bound to these nuclei...
