Informal gathering in the restaurant, "Da Claudia", Brückenstraße 14, in Heidelberg (go from Bismarckplatz in the old centre over the bridge "Theodor-Heuss-Brücke"), from around 7 pm, open end.
Place: Campus of Heidelberg University (Neuenheimer Feld 308), Hörsaal [Lecture room] 2 in the Central Area of "Theoretikum", building 306 (= building 6306 on the map in the printed programme of the conference, p. 3). Bus and tram stop "Bunsengymnasium". Note: The prolongation of the street Mönchhofstraße goes directly to this building, passing the Mathematical Institute.
9:00 Welcome
9:10 Reinhold Bien (Heidelberg): A history of local astronomy
9:30 Andreas Hänel (Osnabrück): Do megalithic graves have an astronomical orientation? A European perspective
9:50 Harald Gropp (Heidelberg): Some remarks on the calendar of Coligny
10:10 Heiner Lichtenberg (Bonn): Zur Verknüpfung des Sonnen- und Mondkalenders im Gregorianischen Kalender
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Ari Belenkiy (Israel): Kepler's Ellipse and Jewish Astronomical Tradition
11:20 Elvira Pfitzner (Chemnitz): Dörffelforschung - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
11:40 Ulrich Bastian (Heidelberg): Bessel's Parallax of 61 Cygni Visualized
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Colin Humphreys (Cambridge, UK): The Star of Bethlehem, a Comet in 5 BC, and the Date of the Millenium
14:40 Manfred Schürmeyer (Dreieich): The Comet of Bethlehem and its year of appearance
15:00 Wolfgang R. Dick (Potsdam): Encyclopedias of Astronomical Biographies - Status and Prospects
15:20 Break
15:30 Wolfgang Kokott (München/Bonn): Variations of a Constant - On the History of Precession
15:50 Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Hamburg): Max Wolf as a Pioneer of Astrophotography
16:10 Concluding remarks
16:30 Assembly of the members of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy (guests are welcome)
Unfortunately, the previously announced paper "Wilhelm Schickard, Isaac Habrecht and the first empirical meteor height determination in 1623" by Wolfgang Czegka had to be cancelled.
International Scientific Conference of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
The following poster paper (P 121) has been submitted:
Johann Dorschner (Jena): Max Wolf and the Thuringian Private Astronomer Anton Thraen
Tour of the Landessternwarte (Observatory) Heidelberg-Königstuhl
At 3 pm you may visit the Landessternwarte on the Königstuhl hill.
Programme for teachers
The programme includes also:
Heiner Lichtenberg (Bonn): Zeitrechnung im Gregorianischen Kalender - ein Schulthema?
Created: 3 Sep 1998. Latest update: 24 Nov 1998