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Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
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Karl Schwarzschild Observatory 

an astronomical observatory located at Tautenburg, near Jena, in the German Democratic Republic. Founded in 1960, the observatory has a unique Schmidt telescope with an optical efficiency of 1:3; the diameter of the spherical mirror is 2 m, and that of the corrector plate is 134 cm. The research carried out at the observatory is primarily in the areas of stellar and extragalactic astronomy.



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