We made use of the Turm observatory to look at the sun during our advanced lab course of the bachelor’s curriculum on 28 July 2021. During the observation, several series of photos were taken using all the observatory’s four telescopes, each one showing a different band of wavelengths. We were […]
Marco Knöll
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With most experiments already being in use for many decades, it’s quite a privilege to be the first ones to conduct a new experiment. After a preparatory talk with the organizing professor Dr. Robert Roth we used TURM’s four telescopes to observe the sun’s activity on 26th of April 2021. […]
Marietta Coelle and Yannik Atzbach We planned our observation under very unfavourable conditions: Not only we had to deal with full moon and decided to observe an exoplanet transit, which restricts the possible observations to a few time windows, but also the hourly changing weather forecast predicted heavy clouds and […]
Patrick Falk & Clemens Nickel During the photometry experiment we could observe the brightness variation caused by the exoplanet CoRoT-18b and the variable star RV Ari of the Aries-constellation in the night of the 9th and 10th of November 2020. We were also given the data of another exoplanet Qatar-4b […]