Photo gallery
The building
Vienna University Observatory, exterior view of the eastern wing overlooking the main dome (Thomas Posch)
Large staircase of the Vienna University Observatory, view from below (Peter Wienerroither)
Large staircase of the Vienna University Observatory, view from above (Peter Wienerroither)
Vienna University Observatory, exterior view of the southern wing (Peter Wienerroither)
Museum room 1 (Peter Wienerroither)
Museum room 2 (Peter Wienerroither)
Astronomy Library (Peter Wienerroither)
Astronomy Library, Old Books (Peter Wienerroither)
High Performance Computer Cluster (Peter Wienerroither)
Historical Instruments
The large refractor of the University Observatory with a lens opening of 68cm and length of 10.5m (Peter Wienerroither)
Operating elements of the large refractor (Peter Wienerroither)
30cm lens telescope from Alvan Clark & Sons in the west dome of the University Observatory (Peter Wienerroither)
21cm lens telescope in the east dome of the University Observatory (Peter Wienerroither)
40cm reflector telescope, formerly in use in the north dome, now located in the round room of the University Observatory
Meridian circle in the round room of the University Observatory (Peter Wienerroither)
Extendable telescope by Leonardo Semitecolo, built in 1790 (Jürgen Hamel)
Dialytic telescope by Georg Simon Plössl, built in 1836
Selected astronomical images
The summer triangle above the main dome of the Vienna University Observatory (Thomas Posch)
Light pollution records over the Vienna University Observatory (Stefan Wallner)
All-sky image with laser beam at Leopold Figl Observatory Mitterschöpfl (Thomas Posch)
Image of the radio background taken with the institutes radio telescope (Franz Kerschbaum)
Lunar Apennine Mountains (Franz Kerschbaum)
Mars in January 2008 imaged with the 30cm refractor of the western dome of the University Observatory (A. Kreutzer, M. Grünanger)
Jupiter in autumn 2010 imaged with the 30cm refractor of the western dome of the University Observatory (A. Kreutzer, M. Grünanger)
Jupiter on 13.11.2011 imaged with the 30cm refractor of the western dome of the University Observatory (A. Kreutzer, M. Grünanger)
Saturn in march 2007 imaged with the 30cm refractor of the western dome of the University Observatory (A. Kreutzer, M. Grünanger)
The Emission nebula NGC281 imaged with the 30cm refractor of the western dome of the University Observatory (Stefan Meingast)
Defocused image of Albireo,imaged with the 68cm refractor (Thomas Posch)
Comparison of the central area of the Globule Barnard 68 as a color composite of images in visible light and near infrared (left) and a false color representation based on images in visible light (shown in blue), in the near infrared (green) and in the infrared (red)
(Joao Alves, ESO)
One of the brightest planetary nebulae, M27, also called "Dumbbell Nebula", imaged with the 80cm reflector telescope of the northern dome of the University Observatory (Nikolaus Sulzenauer)
North America Nebula NGC 7000 taken at the observatory Mitterschöpfl (Thomas Posch)
Rosette Nebula with the open star cluster NGC 2244 located in its center (Franz Kerschbaum)
Spiral galaxy M33 in the constellation Triangulum imaged with the 1.5m-reflecting telescope at the Mitterschöpfl observatory (Alois Purgathofer)
The spiral galaxy NGC6946 has the highest observed supernova frequency of the last hundred years, already the tenth was observed; image taken with the "vlt", several hours exposure time (Nikolaus Sulzenauer)
Historical pendulum clocks
Georg Philipp Strigel (1718 - 1798), London um 1770 (Stefan Wallner)
Jacob Auch (1765 - 1842), Seeberg near Gotha, around 1804 (Stefan Wallner)
Joseph Geist (1768 - 1824), Graz 1822 (Stefan Wallner)
Utzschneider & Fraunhofer, München 1825 (Stefan Wallner)
Franz Joseph Vorauer, Vienna 1863 - 1924 (Stefan Wallner)
Sidereal time clock, manufactured by the company Grubb, Dublin, located in the Main Dome
of the University Observatory (Stefan Wallner)
Pendulum Clock by Sigmund Riefler, Munich, 1890 (Stefan Wallner)
Adolph Kittel (1846 - 1921), Altona, second half of the 19th century (Stefan Wallner)
Karl Urban (1855 - 1940), Viena 1900 (Stefan Wallner)
Ottokar Anders, Vienna before 1902 (Stefan Wallner)