1838 painting of the New Berlin Observatory (Linden Street), where the planet Neptune was discovered in 1846.Location of the Neue Berliner Sternwarte, Berlin Observatory from 1835 to 1913By 1913, activities were moved to a new Observatory at Babelsberg, shown here in 2006
The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte) is a German astronomical institution with a series of observatories and related organizations in and around the city of Berlin in Germany, starting from the 18th century. It has its origins in 1700 when Gottfried Leibniz initiated the "Brandenburg Society of Science″ (Sozietät der Wissenschaften) which would later (1744) become the Prussian Academy of Sciences (Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften). The Society had no observatory but nevertheless an astronomer, Gottfried Kirch, who observed from a private observatory in Berlin. A first small observatory was furnished in 1711, financing itself by calendrical computations.
In 1825 Johann Franz Encke was appointed director by King Frederick William III of Prussia. With the support of Alexander von Humboldt, Encke got the King to agree to the financing of a true observatory, but one condition was that the observatory be made accessible to the public two nights per week. The building was designed by the well-known architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and began operating in 1835. It now bears the IAU observatory code 548.
Although the original observatory was built in the outskirts of the city, over the course of time the city expanded such that after two centuries the observatory was in the middle of other settlements which made making observations very difficult and a proposal to move the observatory was made. The observatory was moved to Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1913 (IAU observatory code 536). Since 1992 it is managed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), although it has not been used for German astronomical observations since the 20th century.
In Berlin remain the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory (IAU code 544), the Archenhold Sternwarte, Berlin-Treptow (Archenhold Observatory; IAU code 604), the Urania Sternwarte (Urania Observatory, IAU code 537), and the Bruno H. Bürgel Observatory.
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major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the BerlinObservatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis...
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Helmholtz, in Berlin. Goldstein worked at the BerlinObservatory from 1878 to 1890 but spent most of his career at the Potsdam Observatory, where he became...
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Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the BerlinObservatory. Kirch, her mother, and her sister worked with him at the Observatory of Berlin. Kirch and her sister...
aperture.The second largest refracting telescope in the world is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor, used for astronomical and scientific observation...
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astronomer and the first "Astronomer Royal" in Berlin and, as such, director of the nascent BerlinObservatory. The son of Michael Kirch, a shoemaker in Guben...
62 Erato with Wilhelm Julius Foerster on September 14, 1860 at the BerlinObservatory. This was the first co-discovery on record. "Minor Planet Discoverers...
volumes of which he compiled and issued. He became director of the BerlinObservatory in 1786, from which he retired in 1825. There he published the Uranographia...
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO, obs. code: 095) is located at Nauchnij research campus, near the Central Crimean city of Bakhchysarai, on...
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Julius Foerster. He worked at Pulkovo Observatory in 1867 as an astronomical calculator and then at BerlinObservatory, where his father moved circa 1871...
Simon Sinas. Demetrios studied astronomy at the University of Berlin and the BerlinObservatory under the supervision of Johann Franz Encke. His dissertation...
taken from the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum and transferred to the New BerlinObservatory in order to define the Normalhöhenpunkt 1879. Normalnull has been...
made by Urbain Le Verrier. Le Verrier would send his coordinates to BerlinObservatory astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, who confirmed the existence of...
director of the Seeberg observatory, and in 1825 was promoted to a corresponding position at Berlin, where a new observatory, built under his superintendence...
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The Archenhold Observatory (German: Archenhold-Sternwarte) was named in honour of Friedrich Simon Archenhold, is an observatory in Berlin-Treptow. It houses...
– 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (today the Archenhold Observatory) in Berlin-Treptow. He graduated...
by Russian astronomer Viktor Knorre on January 4, 1876, from the Berlinobservatory. It was the first of his four asteroid discoveries. The meaning of...
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