The Carinthian Astronomical Association ( CAA - German : Astronomische Vereinigung Kärntens , AVK ) Is the second great astronomical association in Austria . The CAA owns two observatories and one planetarium . One observatory is located near Klagenfurt , on the Kreuzbergl, the other on the Gerlitze, near Villach . The planetarium is situated a Klagenfurt near Minimundus .
6-432: AVK may refer to: Astronomische Vereinigung Kärntens Antivitamin K drugs or vitamin K antagonists AVK Group , manufacture of sanitary fittings Kotava language , ISO code "avk" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title AVK . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-649: A Ritchey-Chrétien telescope . Today this telescope is also used for astrophotography . In the same year of the modernization of the Gerlitzen observatory, the planetarium was inaugurated too. Already after the construction of the Kreuzbergl observatory the CAA wanted to have a planetarium . Therefore, the city of Klagenfurt provided an estate near the city at the Wörthersee . The entire construction cost about €900,000 ($ 1,300,000) and
18-495: A trip to the solar eclipse in the Apennine Mountains . Some of the practicipants became the core of the CAA. Still in the same year on 17 June the "Vereinigung der Sternfreunde" was founded. One of its objectives was to build a public observatory. The city of Klagenfurt provided the old tower on the Kreuzbergl, which was built in 1895 for the visit of Kaiser Franz Josef I , to transform it in an observatory. Proximately it
24-411: The "Vereinigung der Sternfreunde". The university of Graz lend the CAA a refracting telescope with an aperture of 134mm and a focal length of 2000mm. This telescope was replaced by another refracting telescope from the company Wachter. Eight years later the CAA got the chance to make observations from the Gerlitzen. In 1997 the observatory was modernized, and the old telescope was replaced by
30-450: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AVK&oldid=932702260 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Astronomische Vereinigung K%C3%A4rntens In 1961 the maths teacher Helmut Lenhof from Klagenfurt arranged
36-510: Was revealed that another group of amateur astronomers from the Highschool of Klagenfurt has had also the idea to build an observatory. As a result, these two groups were united. To construct and fund the observatory the "Verein zu Errichtung einer Volkssternwarte am Kreuzbergl" was founded. This association was dissolved after the inauguration in September 1965 and the observatory became property of
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