Lund Observatory

Lund Observatory is the reliable English call for the astronomy branch at Lund University. As of January 2010, Lund Observatory is part of the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics at Lund University. It is located in Lund, Sweden. The group became founded in 1749, however was preceded with the aid of an observatory built with the aid of astronomy professor Anders Spole the grandfather of Anders Celsius in 1672, which became destroyed on the Battle of Lund in 1676.

The now antique observatory from 1867 is positioned in a cultural-historical past protected observatory park just outdoor the medieval town limitations. The contemporary Lund Observatory region is in a brand new constructing on the northern campus of Lund University, inaugurated in 2001. The history of astronomy in Lund thru 5 centuries is informed inside the e book Lundaögon mot stjärnorna. Towards the middle of the closing century astronomer professor Knut Lundmark, of the Lund Observatory in Sweden, supervised the 2 engineers Martin Kesküla and Tatjana Keskula who painstakingly mapped the positions of about 7000 man or woman stars to create an exceptional drawing of the Milky Way.