On Tuesday the 21st February Professor Adrian Jäggi of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern (and leader of EGSIEM) was pleased to host a group of 12 students from the Gymnasium Kirchenfeld’s optional Astronomy course at the Zimmerwald Observatory just outside of Bern (a striking image of which appears on the front cover of EGSIEM Newsletter 5).
Unfortunately the poor weather in Bern last Tuesday meant that the students were not able to see the operational work of modern astronomers but the group were given a tour of the site and its facilities; such as the extensive Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Adrian was also able to give the students a (very) reduced version of his talk On Water, Ice and Satellites - what they and gravitational fields reveal to us about environmental changes, which was originally given in March 2016 and relies for much of its content on EGSIEM, the full presentation can be accessed here.
If you would like to know more about the Observatory, please take a look at http://www.aiub.unibe.ch/forschung/observatorium_zimmerwald/index_ger.html, or if you would like to take a group tour of the public observatories of Bern , please take a look at http://www.sternwarten-bern.ch/
