Telescopes
- Telescopes
- The Great Refractor, a great refractor telescope with an objective diameter (60 cm) and focal length (9 m). By Repsold, and with optics from Steinheil.
- The Equatorial, a refractor with aperture of 26 cm and focal length. Built in 1870s and moved to Bergedorf.
- Salvador Mirror, a Cassegrain with 8 m focal length and 40 cm mirror.
- The Meridian Circle, a meridian circle built in 1907. (by A. Repsold & Söhne)
- Lippert Telescope, three astrographs refractors on one mount. Built by Carl Zeiss, funded by Eduard Lippert
- 1 Meter Reflector Telescope, activated in 1911. By Carl Zeiss. The largest telescope in Germany from 1911 to 1920
- Astrograph, with 8.5 cm objective, focal length 2.06 m. Built in 1924.
- Schmidtspiegel, the first Schmidt telescope by Bernhard Schmidt. Now part of a Schmidt Museum
- Photographic refractor (Zonenastrograph), an instrument funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 1973. 23 cm diameter aperture and 205.3 cm focal length. It was built by Carl Zeiss Oberkochen.
- Oskar-Lühning Telescope, s Ritchey-Chretien with 1.20 m aperture diameter and a focal length of 15.60m in the Cassegrain focus. Built in 1975 and refurbished as robotic telescope in 2001.
- A planned large Schmidt telescope was finished in 1954 and moved to Calar Alto Observatory in 1976, with the Oskar-Lühning taking over its spot in the Observatory.
- Hamburg Robotic Telescope (HRT), tested in 2002 and online in 2005. by Halfmann Teleskoptechnik
- Offsite telescopes
- In 1968 a 38 cm reflector was set up by the Hamburg Observatory at Stephanion Observatory in Greece.
- The aforementioned Schmidt was moved to Calar Alto Observatory in 1976. Some work was done with data from Effelsberg
- The HRT telescope is planned to be installed on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Atlantic Ocean
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