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2024, August:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 55 have been published (in German)
Older News and Meetings
2024, September 9-10, Köln:
Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronomical
Society
Auf den Spuren historischer Sternwarten (On the Trail of Historical Observatories)
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt;
2024, June 21., Ansbach:
Meeting of the Simon Marius Gesellschaft (
SiMaG) and the
Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronomical Society
Simon Marius und der Wandel im Weltbild
Tagungszentrum Onoldia, Ansbach
2024, June:
"Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol. 72" have been published.
Contents: Rolf Riekher (Bearb.), Wolfgang R. Dick (Hg.), Jürgen Hamel (Hg.): Der Briefwechsel Joseph von Utzschneiders - Briefe und Dokumente aus der Ära Fraunhofer, Reichenbach und Utzschneider Band 3 (in German)
2024, May:
Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol 11 with the title
"Der Große Refraktor auf dem Potsdamer Telegrafenberg"
is now available without charge at the ResearchGate. (in German)
2024, March:
"Acta Historica Astronomiae Vol 71" have been published.
Contents: Günther Rüdiger: Astronomen, Akten und Affären - Vom Anfang zum Ende des
Astrophysikalischen Observatoriums zu Potsdam. Berichte und Erinnerungen (in German)
2023, September 10 -11, Berlin:
Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
Entwicklung der Astrophysik (Evolution of Astrophysics)
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt;
2022, December:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 53 have been published (in German)
2022, September 16 -18, Bremen:
Colloquium of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the German Astronmical Society
Instrumente, Methoden und Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
organized by Gudrun Wolfschmidt;
Meeting of the members of the workung group (election of president and secretary)
2022, May 7, Jena:
Small colloquium on the 450th anniversary of Kepler.
Meeting location: restaurant and hotel "Haus im Sack", Jena, Oberlauengasse 14-17
This is the originally in November 2021 planned meeting that had to be cancelled
due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The program is available here . (in German)
2022, April:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 52 have been published (in German)
2021, December:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 51 have been published (in German)
2021, November
Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann, former director of the Archenhold-Observatory, Berlin,
died at the age of 82.
Prof. Dr. Dieter B. Herrmann was a member of the Working Group History of Astronomy in the
German Astronmical Society
Obituary of the Stiftung Planetarium Berlin (in German)
Obituary of the German Astronmical Society (in German)
2021 September:
Virtual Splintermeeting at the AG meeting between September 13 - 17, 2021,
Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy,
organized by Susanne M Hoffmann and Gudrun Wolfschmidt
This meeting replaces the colloquium 2021.
2021, September
The proceedings of the Splinter Meeting of the working group
"Applied and Computational Historical Astronomy"
held during the virtual meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2020 have been published:
Nuncius Hamburgensis; Vol. 55
2021, June
Vol. 67 of the Acta Historica Astronomiae has been published.
Günther Oestmann, Jürgen Hamel: 625 Jahre astronomische Uhr in St. Nikolai zu Stralsund –
Himmelskunde und Weltbild im Mittelalter
2021, May:
The "Mitteilungen zur Astronomiegeschichte" Nr. 50 have been published (in German)
2020, September:
The Simon Marius Gesellschaft has published a short video on Simon Marius, his life and his research.
2020, August 30 and 31, Berlin:
planned but then cancelled colloquium of the working group
Entscheidende Ereignisse/Entdeckungen für innovative Entwicklungen in der Astronomie
(in German)
( cancel notification see Mitt. Nr. 48a (in German))
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