Astro-lab Summer term 2025 from September 22 - 26 and from October 6 - 10 2025


You MUST register with your University account (Bachelor/Master students) or your institute account (PhD students). Registrations with E-mail addresses eg using gmail, gmx or other provider will _NOT_ be accepted and simply be ignored!!!

The preliminary list of participants.

Notes on the astrolab to be held from September 22 - 26 and from October 6 - 10 2025:

  • The astrolab has been split into two separate weeks interlaced by a week off to cope with the German Unity day on October 3.
  • The astrolab will be held fully in presence at the Landessternwarte on the Königstuhl. However, construction work at the Landessternwarte may possibly start in September which would force us to move to alternative locations. If that happens, the 1st week of the astrolab will be held at the Philosophenweg, the 2nd week at the Haus der Astronomie.
  • The E-mail with the confirmation of participation will be mailed out by the end of August 2025. It will contain further details about the outline.
  • We will offer observations with the 70cm telescope during the astrolab. Observations will be voluntarily, they are not required for a successfull participation. Information on this will be circulated with the confirmation E-mail end of August.


If you have any question, please send me an E-mail at jheidt at lsw.uni-heidelberg.de



Registration


Astro-lab PhD students: September 22 - 26 and October 6 - 10 2025

Full day, starts at 8:45 AM daily



Astro-lab Bachelor students WPAstro3 (requirement WPAstro1):

Alternatively, September 22 through Friday, September 26 or Monday, October 6 through Friday, October 10 2025.

Full day, starts at 8:45 AM daily.




Astro-lab Master students MVAstro1 or MVSpec:

Alternatively, September 22 through Friday, September 26 or Monday, October 6 through Friday, October 10 2025.

Full day, starts at 8:45 AM daily.





  • Location: Landesternwarte Heidelberg
  • Organized by: Prof. Dr. J. Heidt and Prof. Dr. A. Quirrenbach

    • How to register!

    • Online (preferred) or Ms Wright, LSW Heidelberg, Tel: 06221 - 541781. If the latter, please provide address, phone number and course (PhD, Bachelor or Master). In case of Bachelor or Master, pls. provide also the week preferred and matrikel number. If you are from a different faculty, please provide this information in the "additional remarks" section.

  • Further information:

  • Procedure: There is no special preparation for the astro-lab required. Altogether 10 tasks will be offered. An introduction to the tasks and an outline of the astrolab in autumn 2024 can be found in this document. During the one-week astro-lab about 2-4, during the 2-week astro-lab about 6-8 tasks shall be worked on in groups of two (scripts will be given on site or be made downloadable from the WEB). Individual tasks will be assigned by the organizers. Once a task is completed by an individual group, it will be discussed with one of the responsible assistants. There is no need for a written summary or any homework.

  • Literature: It would be useful to bring your own textbooks, e.g.
  • Schneider: Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology
  • Shu: The Physical Universe, University Science Books

  • Very useful: Bring your own notebook for working on the tasks and/or searches in the internet (WLAN/DHCP available). For the data reduction as part of Tasks 1 and 11 dedicated notebooks are available. Knowledge of SW-tools like Origin, Excel or Gnuplot to e.g. fit functions to data would be an asset.

  • Due to space constraints the number of participants is limited to 40 students per week.

    The dates for the next astrolab during the Winter term 2025/2026 are TBD at present. They will most likely be at the end of February 2026.

    Maintained by Jochen Heidt
    Last modified: 21. 3. 2025