Education and Research
As a part of the Comenius University, the observatory provides research opportunity for students, and the staff offers guidance for the Master and PhD theses. The research is mainly aimed at the interplanetary matter. More than 160 asteroids were discovered from the observatory including two Near Earth Objects 2005 GB34 and 2008 UW5. The observation time is mostly assigned for the photometry of asteroids and comets and astrometry. The first observation of a transiting extrasolar planet in Slovakia was performed at the observatory. The solar physics researchers perform solar prominence and chromosphere features observations in the H-alpha line.
The observatory is also a member of the European bolide network and itself develops its own TV meteor grid. Besides photographic all-sky cameras, fish-eye all-sky semi-automated meteor detection devices are located at Modra observatory and near Tesárske Mlyňany. In addition to meteor detection, real time all-sky camera is able to detect also other phenomena, such as atmospheric sprites and elves (TLE).
-
Main operation and administrative building of Modra observatory
-
Winter time at the Modra observatory
-
Lower building of the Modra observatory complex
-
Leonid meteor shower detected at Modra observatory, bolides on single photographic plate
-
Sprites detected above horizon at Modra observatory
-
Active solar area as seen from Modra observatory
-
Comet 17P/Holmes from Modra observatory
-
Comet C/2004 Q2 Machholz from Modra observatory
-
Aurora borealis from Modra observatory
-
Climate record at the observatory site
Read more about this topic: Modra Observatory
Famous quotes containing the words education and, education and/or research:
“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“A woman might claim to retain some of the child’s faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)