Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-03

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00:01:45 1 History
00:01:54 1.1 Timetable
00:02:03 1.2 Origin
00:04:35 1.3 Foundation of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP)
00:09:33 1.4 Relocation of the Berlin Observatory to Babelsberg
00:13:03 1.5 Developments after the Second World War
00:17:02 1.6 Reunification and the founding of the AIP
00:18:45 2 Main research areas
00:20:45 3 Participation in large international research projects
00:20:58 3.1 Large Binocular Telescope
00:21:35 3.2 RAVE
00:22:08 3.3 Sloan Digital Sky Survey
00:22:52 3.4 LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray)
00:23:25 4 Technical projects
00:23:35 4.1 Virtual observatory
00:24:12 4.2 GREGOR
00:25:13 4.3 AGWs of the Large Binocular Telescope
00:26:00 4.4 Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer
00:26:34 4.5 Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric &amp; Spectroscopic Instrument (PEPSI)
00:27:07 4.6 STELLA
00:27:38 4.7 Observatory for Solar Radio Astronomy (OSRA)
00:28:16 5 Telescopes and collaborations



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Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is a German research institute.  It is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam (AOP) founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics.  The AIP was founded in 1992, in a re-structuring following the German reunification.
The AIP is privately funded and member of the Leibniz Association. It is located in Babelsberg in the state of Brandenburg, just west of Berlin, though the Einstein Tower solar observatory and the great refractor telescope on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam belong to the AIP.
The key topics of the AIP are cosmic magnetic fields (magnetohydrodynamics) on various scales and extragalactic astrophysics.  Astronomical and astrophysical fields studied at the AIP range from solar and stellar physics to stellar and galactic evolution to cosmology.
The institute also develops research technology in the fields of spectroscopy and robotic telescopes.  It is a partner of the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, has erected robotic telescopes in Tenerife and the Antarctic, develops astronomical instrumentation for large telescopes such as the VLT of the ESO.  Furthermore, work on several e-Science projects are carried out at the AIP.