Peter Staettmayer
Peter Stättmayer (born November 3, 1945 in Munich ; † October 18, 2018 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German astronomer and author and long-time director of the Bavarian People's Observatory in Munich .
Life
Peter Stättmayer grew up in the Ramersdorf district in Munich. At first he could not study physics, but trained as a physics assistant. On his second educational path, he then studied electrical engineering. The trained electrical engineer Stättmayer drew attention to himself with special photos, including a picture of comet C / 1975 V1 (West) in 1976 . A good 20 years later he made a series of photos of the comet Hale-Bopp . In the mid-1980s he developed a measuring field eyepiece , which is sold by Celestron , among others .
Stättmayer headed the Bavarian People's Observatory in Munich from 1991 to 2015 (as the successor to Hans Oberndorfer ) and was repeatedly called upon as an expert by the press and television .
He also translated the textbook Der Weltraum: Planets, Stars, Galaxies and the children's books Astronomy and the Pictorial Atlas of Space .
The asteroid (3398) Stättmayer was named after him.
Peter Stättmayer died after a brief serious illness and was buried at the Ostfriedhof .
Web links
- Article about Stättmayer and the Volkssternwarte at sueddeutsche.de
- Stättmayer's comments on the lunar eclipse at focus.de
- Obituary Peter Stättmayer of the Munich public observatory
Individual evidence
- ^ Public observatory mourns Peter Stättmayer. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
- ↑ dossier OJ26
- ↑ Pictures from C / 1975 V1 (West)
- ↑ Hale-Bopp picture series
- ↑ The micro-guide measuring field and tracking eyepiece
- ^ Bavarian People's Observatory, Munich
- ^ Portrait of the observatory - Bayerische Volkssternwarte Munich. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt
- ↑ Fig
- ^ TZ-Online
- ↑ Munich Mercury
- ↑ 3sat ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Space: planets, stars, galaxies ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Small Planet Instead Mayer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stättmayer, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer and head of the Bavarian public observatory in Munich |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 2018 |
| Place of death | Herrsching am Ammersee |