Sky year
The Himmelsjahr is an astronomical yearbook published by Franckh-Kosmos-Verlag Stuttgart . It is the successor to Robert Henseling's Sternbüchlein and was first published under this title in 1941. From 1949 the main author was Max Gerstenberger, who significantly expanded the yearbook. It has been published by the Stuttgart astronomer Hans-Ulrich Keller since 1982, and has been officially published under the title Kosmos Himmelsjahr since 1998 .
After Henseling separated from the publisher in 1940, the great success of the Sternbüchlein over many years prompted them to continue the tradition of an astronomical yearbook under a new title. Renowned authors took on this task, including Paul Ahnert , Rudolf Brandt , Eva Rohlfs and Arthur Teichgraeber from the Sonneberg observatory ( Thuringia ). The time of the Second World War survived the Himmelsjahr u. a. because it was also sent to the fronts as a field post issue and was issued by the Wehrmacht High Command in the final phase of the war . This even ensured an issue for 1945.
After the division of Germany in 1949, the Sonneberg observatory belonged to the GDR . The above-mentioned team of authors began to publish their own yearbook, the Calendar for Star Friends , as early as 1948 . Detached from the Himmelsjahr, which was re-published in the FRG from 1949, Paul Ahnert led the Sternfreunde calendar to success as the leading astronomical yearbook in the GDR. After Walter Widmann (later known through his sky guide, Which star is that? ) Took over the publication of the sky year, Max Gerstenberger was responsible for it from 1949 to 1981, who was then assisted by Hans-Ulrich Keller (director of the Stuttgart Planetarium , who is still active today Observatory and Professor of Astronomy at the University of Stuttgart ) was replaced.
The Himmelsjahr has changed and developed consistently in the decades of its regular appearance. It has grown from 104 pages (1941) to 300 pages (2009). After the economically weak first post-war years were over, it was again integrated in color from 1950 . It was published in glossy cover since 1965, since 1987 it has been printed in two colors, and in 1989 it contained color astrophotographs for the first time . It has been completely colored since 1998.
The antiquarian value of the oldest issues is not inconsiderable today, since they are now rarities.
Centenary of the Sternbüchlein
The publisher regards the Himmelsjahr and the Sternbüchlein as a joint series of books, which is why an anniversary edition was published on the occasion of the centenary of the Sternbüchlein in 2010, which (in addition to the Himmelsjahr 2010 cosmos and two CDs with the Himmelsjahr software and the launcher version of Redshift 7 ) also contains a reprint of the first edition of the Sternbüchlein from 1910.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Keller: Kosmos Himmelsjahr 2010 De Luxe. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-440-11533-X