— Acquisition of observational data — Development and operation of suitable resources — Development of necessary theoretical tools —

The Strabourg Astronomical Observatory is an 'Observatory for Universe Sciences', an internal school of the University of Strasbourg (Unistra), and a Joint Research Unit between the University and the CNRS. It hosts two National Observation Services: the Survey Science Centre XMM-Newton (SSC-XMM) and the Astronomical Data Centre of Strasbourg (CDS). The Strabourg Astronomical Observatory also contributes to other National Observation Services: SVOM, WEAVE, Gaia, and the Besançon Galaxy model.

As a Research Unit, the Strabourg Astronomical Observatory is structured in two research teams: the GALHECOS team and the CDS.

The current observatory was built in 1881 and hosts the 3rd largest refractor in France by its size, and the Strasbourg Planetarium for which it was responsible from 1986 to 2008, and now part of the University of Strasbourg Garden of Sciences. It also has a rich heritage of instruments and old reference works. In addition, in one of its small domes, it has set up a pedagogical observation platform, composed of two coupled 36cm telescopes for imaging and spectroscopy.

Web page

• https://astro.unistra.fr/en/observatory/

ChETEC contact person

• William Chantereau (wchantereauunistra.fr)