Black Forest Observatory (BFO) or Observatorium Schiltach is a geophysical observatory owned and operated by Karlsruhe University and Stuttgart University. It is located near Schiltach in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany. The observatory is in the Anton mine, which was abandoned and then converted in 1972.
Famous quotes containing the words black, forest and/or observatory:
“Long sibilant-muscled trees
Were lifting up, the black poplars.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)