You can also register at a later stage. Once the first round of scheduled observations is over, new dates for the unsuccessfull students/groups will be defined as well as observing dates for the participants who have registered later on. The assignment of the dates will always been made based on the entries in the GOOGLE spreadsheet.

The assistant for the observations is Natascha Sattler or Jochen Heidt

Logistics and transportation: Meeting point for the observations is at the gate of the Landessternwarte.

If you come by car, pls. leave it just to the right hand side in front of the gate.

For the ones who require public transport to come up, Bus 39 leaving Bismarckplatz every full hour (16/19h) is recommended. Arrival at the Landessternwarte is about 25minutes later. You have to walk about 400m from the bus stop to the gate of the Landessternwarte following the sign. Alternatively you can take the Bus 30 leaving the bus stop Peterskirche at 16.28/19.28, arrival at the Landessternwarte about 12min later. Note, however, that you need to find your way to the telescope in that case.

Going down: Bus 39 leaving at 19.32h or Bus 30 leaving at 19.46h from the Landessternwarte (1st group). There is no bus running at times when the 2nd group is done with their observations. Instead the "Ruftaxi" which runs at 22.28h from the bus-stop at Landessternwarte has to be used. It needs to be called 30min in advance at 0621-1077077 for a reservation. The assistant at the 70cm telescope will take care of this. The Ruftaxi is free of charge for the ones with a "Deutschlandticket" or "JugendticketBW", otherwise it costs 1,50 Euro per ride/person.

Preparation and outline of the observations: Pls. download the script for the observations here . For the evening pls. go through the parts 1.1 and 1.2 and prepare for the observations by working on the questions. At the begin of the evening you will first get an introduction to the telescope and the CCD-camera by the assistant followed by a discussion on what you have done for the preparation of the evening. The data taken during the night will be reduced and analysed as part of the astro-lab in February/March 2024.

Pls. have warm clothes with you. It can be very cold at the Königstuhl during the night.

In case not all participants werde able to conduct their observations during the dates offered (e.g. due to bad weather), we may arrange further observing sessions in January 2025.