Hamburg, visiting the Sternwarte

October 2012

I gave a talk [pdf] and spent a couple of days meeting with X-ray astronomers at the Hamburg Sternwarte. It is outside of the city center, near Bergedorf. The skies were dark there when the observatory was built in the 19th Century.

Ritter
The Hamburg train station is kind of gloomy, but the large Ritter Sport ad brightened up the platform.
Bergedorf
I stayed in Bergedorf and walked about 40 minutes through the town...

schweinske2

walk 1

and residential neighborhoods...

walk 2

...to the observatory, which is situated on large, parklike grounds.

sternwarte

sternwarte_sign

I like their constellation themed way-finding graphics.

 

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