Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena
The Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena (AIU Jena) is an observatory of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the middle of Jena .
On behalf of Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had an observatory set up in the urban area of Jena. The first director was Karl Dietrich von Münchow (1778–1836). The first building of the observatory was an extension to Friedrich Schiller's house , the first building was erected in 1813. In 1889 a new building was built on a neighboring property.
The directors of the observatory included well-known scientists such as Ernst Abbe (1877 to 1900), Heinrich Vogt (1929 to 1933) and Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf (1933 to 1945).
Since 1962 the Astrophysical Institute has been operating a branch in the village of Großschwabhausen, about 10 km west of the city . The observation station located in the forest on the plateau offers at least bearable conditions for optical astronomy for Central European conditions, which are no longer available in the city due to light pollution . The largest telescope is a reflector telescope with a main mirror diameter of 90 cm, which can be converted into a Schmidt camera with an aperture of 60 cm. CCD cameras, fiber optic spectrometers and photon counting cameras can be connected to this. Since 2006 a nightly observation has been carried out again.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 31 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 59 ″ E