Bochum Observatory , often known in Bochum as Cape Kaminski ( German : Kap Kaminski ) is a research institute in Bochum , Nordrhein-Westfalen , Germany . The institution came into being through a private initiative. Its main areas of interest are in radio astronomy and environmental research .
16-637: In 1946, Professor Heinz Kaminski founded Bochum Observatory as a popular observatory of the local Volkshochschule . Since 1957 and the launch of the first artificial satellite – Sputnik 1, whose signal was detected in Bochum – this developed into the Institute for Space Research / Observatory Bochum . It was renamed in 1982 as the Institute for Environment- and Future Research [Institut für Umwelt- und Zukunftsforschung (IUZ)] . Included among its new tasks are involvement with sociological und global ecological themes. It
32-465: A 20-metre (66 ft) parabolic antenna in a radome , with which all Apollo missions were followed. When his Institut was denied subsidies in 1982, Kaminski changed the Volkssternwarte Bochum into the private "Institut für Umwelt- und Zukunftsforschung" (IUZ) (Institute for Environmental and Future Research), which over the years has developed into a top-rate educational institution. Due to
48-632: A source of information on astronomical events. At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, Kaminski took an active interest in politics - at first in the Green Party , then in the Bürgerpartei . In the cellar of his house, Kaminski, a former naval radio operator, had built a receiving station from old wooden tables and in the meadow in front of his house in the Bochum district of Sundern erected an antenna assisted by three co-workers, with whose help he listened in to radio signals from space. During
64-643: Is a recognized and supported further education institution of the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Its educational work is aided by the Landeszentrale for Political Education of the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Employment of the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen. In 1999, Professor Heinz Kaminski nominated Thilo Elsner as his successor. Thilo Elsner has been at the Observatory since February 1995 and has contributed significantly to
80-515: Is promoted and made accessible to the public at large. This latter task is carried out with the help of a "Mobile Observatory", which consists among things of a high-precision satellite receiver. Recognized as working for the community, the Institute has worked since 1990 for the people of the Ruhr area as an institution for political education in the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen . The IUZ's largest structure
96-520: Is the Radome (radar dome). This has a 40-meter-high (130 ft) dome, supported by excess pressure from inside, which protects a 20 m parabolic dish from the weather. The dish has a total weight of over 220 tonnes and can both receive and send data. As a result of a complete upgrading, the installation has an accuracy of about 1/1000 of a degree in positioning and is thus being prepared for the planned Mars mission AMSAT P5A , which will be partly navigated by
112-544: The Planet Venus . As a result, the American Space Agency NASA has offered its assistance and in future will be sending relevant data to Bochum. The Institute today owns several antenna systems for receiving data from geostationary and orbiting satellites and interplanetary spacecraft. The development of astronomical topics as well as environmental themes and the study of its associated effects on society
128-512: The Sputnik signal in 1957 up to the present day. "The People's Observatory Bochum", one of the few institutions capable of receiving the first signals from Sputnik, became an important place in West Germany for the latest news and information about space. A special exhibition has been put on show in this historic location in space history, with numerous exhibits gathered from all of Germany documenting
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160-684: The IUZ Bochum. Otherwise there is 1000 square meters of exhibition space and a lecture room for 160 people. Cosmos, Communism, Cold War – Sputnik 50: The History of Space Travel in Two Political Systems is the exhibition in the Radom of Bochum Observatory, supported by the "Federal Foundation for Studying the SED-Dictatorship" . It documents the events of the Space Race from the first detection of
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#1732856203641192-752: The efforts of Kaminski, the city of Bochum erected in 1964 the first post-war large planetarium in Deutschland (equipped at the time with a Zeiss Mod. IV). Kaminski was nominated as the first direktor and occupied this position until his retirement in 1986. In 1972 Kaminski became an honorary professor in the Physics Department at the University of Essen and gave lectures until the Winter semester 1999/2000 on "Environmental Research via Satellite - Results and Political Consequences". On 17 February 2002, Kaminski died at
208-461: The instrumentation of space travel." Heinz Kaminski Heinz Kaminski (15 June 1921 – 17 February 2002) was a German chemical engineer and space researcher. Heinz Kaminski founded and later directed the Bochum Observatory . He also busied himself with environmental research. Although Kaminski was only an amateur astronomer and not a professional, the press constantly treated him as
224-478: The maintenance and reconstruction of the attached radar dome Radome . The radar dome , which is supported by internal pressure, collapsed in October 1999 due to a large rip in the polyester skin. Heinz Kaminski died in 2002. In 2007, the observatory celebrated its 60th anniversary. In March 2009 the 20m parabolic antenna became the first successful planetary radar in western Europe when it detected its own echoes from
240-613: The night of 7 October 1957, Kaminski receive signals from Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite in space. Even he was not the first person outside the Soviet territories, as an urban myth in Bochum tells, nor the first person in Germany, he and Bochum becomes very popular about this fact. In 1961, Kaminski took over the leadership of the Volkssternwarte Bochum (Bochum People's Observatory), which had been founded by himself. During
256-688: The years he built the grounds around the Volkssternwarte into an Institute and made sure that it managed a connection to international space research. At the Bochum Station, signals from a variety of space vehicles from the Sputniks, Luniks up to Vostok and Voskhod could be received, as well as in 1963 (for the first time in Europe) satellite pictures from the US weather satellite TIROS -8. In 1967 Kaminski installed
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