5 Year Anniversary

Hi out there,

it´s now five years since Milkyweb Astronomical Observatory Guide ist available on the net. Some 100.000 visitors have been here to look for astronomical observatories or even collegues to discuss with.

The anniversary was the reason for the relaunch of the site which now has a better navigation (I hope).

If you decide to fill in or update the questionnaire, please check if it is possible to link to us from your website.

I regret to be behind schedule with sending out maps for those who filled in the questionnaire. I try to repair this during the next weeks.

Search Observatories on the globe

I made a ObservatoryGuide-org.kmz file so that you can locate all the observatories with Google Earth as well as with NASA World Wind (thanks to the World Wind core team)

Milkyweb Space History

Astro News

Local

Actual Meteosat Satellite Picture provided by: http://www.wetter-zentrale.de

Actual Sky View for Milkyweb provided by: http://www.heavens-above.com

Get the map

New version of the map with screen resolution of 2400x1200 pixel is available now. I already have a second one at a resolution of 6000x3000 pixel, which I want to give out free of charge for those, who complete/revise the questionnaire of their observatory (To see a part of this map click here).

To get the map with resolution 6000x3000, you should

	select your appropriate language by clicking on one of the flags above
	select the questionnaire on the left
	fill in your answers to the questions to complete the questionnaire
	click on the "Send"-Button
	send me an email.

I then will have a look at your description to see if they are complete/correct. Typically mistakes are:

	to forget the "http://" in front of your URL so that the link doesn´t work with my php-script
	to give the geografical coordinates as xx° yy' zz'' with the addition "W" or "E" or "N" or "S" instead of +/- xx.yyyy ("+" indicates "N" or "E", "-" indicates "S" or "W"), so that neither the "sky view", nor the "surroundings map" will work.

If your description is correct and complete, I send you an url where you will find the map with resolution 6000x3000 pixel as *.jpg for download (file size about 1.600 kB).

Those, who support the realization and operation of this site:

Belgian observatories by: Jean-Marc Wislez, Volkssterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium

Earth atmospheric transmission spectrum by: Bill Blair, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

French translation by: Didier Van Hellemont/Raoul Lannoy,  Volkssterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium

Italian translation by: Marco Cavagna, Sormano Astronomical Observatory, Sormano, Italy

News by: Fraser Cain, UNIVERSE TODAY, Vancouver, Canada

Night sky brightness map by: P. Cinzano, F. Falchi (University of Padova), C. D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder). http://www.lightpollution.it/dmsp/index.html © Royal Astronomical Society.

Optical observatories based on: IAU observatory codes, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, USA and Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia

PHP-Scripts by: Klaus Lanz, Functional-Webware, Freiburg, Germany

Radio observatories mostly from: Daniela Düßdorf, c/o Norbert Junkes, Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, and The National Academies, Washington DC

Russian translation by: Irina Neumann, Speichersdorf, Germany

Sky view by: Chris Peat, Heavens Above, Munich, Germany

World´s largest optical telescopes from: Students for the exploration and development of space

Idea, realization, hosting by:  © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Wolfgang Grond, NUMBERLAND™ Kulmbach, Germany

Last change: 2006-06-26