Asteroid Day is an annual global event, held on the anniversary of the 30 June 1908 Siberian Tunguska explosion. On 6 December 2016 The United Nations proclaimed that Asteroid Day will be celebrated on 30 June every year. More details … Continued
Astronomical Observatory Institute at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań is seeking a candidate for a postdoctoral position funded by the Polish National Science Centre. The position is initially available for one year with a potential extension depending on the … Continued
During the “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2017” conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, four asteroids were named in honour of astronomers from Poznań Observatory: (10470) Bartczak, (10471) Marciniak, (10472) Santana-Ros, (72447) Polińska. Asteroids, immediately after their discovery, are given a temporary name. When … Continued
On 1th March 2017 AO AMU started a new ESA project called “NEO&SST Observation Assisatnce Service (NOAS)”. Its goal is to create a web based service making it easy to create observing plans for robotic telescopes, which is written in … Continued
We received information from the European Space Agency (ESA) about the acceptance of our proposal „Service for Archival NEO Orbital and Rotational Data Analysis (SANORDA)”. Its goal is creation of a web service for analysis of the archival orbits of … Continued