Spring 2025 Our astronomers sometimes invite the general public to the observatory to see and use our teaching telescopes. We do this in our free time and it is free of charge - so please be kind. We have had much interest in our stargazing events, with hundreds of people signing up for our email list.  We have decided that we will attempt to arrange stargazing events during week 9 and week 11.  T

https://www.astro.lu.se/form/stargazing - 2025-07-23

11 September 2025 13:15 | Seminar Seminar by Danny Horta from Flatiron institute About the eventLocation:LundmarksalenContact:jens [dot] hoeijmakers [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.astro.lu.se/calendar/seminar-danny-horta - 2025-07-23

18 September 2025 13:15 | Seminar Seminar by Sara Pearson from the University of Copenhagen on the topic of Stellar streams About the eventLocation:LundmarksalenContact:jens [dot] hoeijmakers [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.astro.lu.se/calendar/seminar-sara-pearson-topic-stellar-streams - 2025-07-23

20 September 2025 11:00 to 23:30 | Planetarium show/event Astronomy activities on Culture Night continue to be popular. Astronomers will be arranging activities for the public on Culture Night.  The detailed programme will be released in late August.Stay tuned!  About the eventLocation:The Planetarium and the ObservatoryContact:anna [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.astro.lu.se/calendar/culture-night - 2025-07-23

from the Lund University Planetarium THE SHOW WILL BECOME FREELY AVAILABLE IN SEPTEMBER 2025 Show description:Show length: 15-45 minutesAvailable languages:  English, Swedish Framerate: 30 fpsThis modular show has been designed to fit:Small and/or mobile digital planetariaCircular or directional seatingYounger audience and familiesIn the far north the Sun does not set during the summer months and

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/fulldome-resources/astra-and-sirius - 2025-07-23

ALVA is an astronomy club for university students in Lund.The purpose of the club is to provide a place for science students and other people interested in astronomy to get inspiration and to experience how exciting the Universe can be.ALVA arranges astronomy-related activities like public lectures, stargazing nights, planetarium shows and workshops. We arrange an event roughly once a month, usual

https://www.astro.lu.se/ALVA - 2025-07-23

Visit us We have moved across the street and now you can find the Division of Astrophysics in the A400 corridor in the Physics building Astronomers Looking for a specific researcher or teacher? Department of Physics The Division of Astrophysics is a part of the Department of Physics, as well as being a part of Lund Observatory. Calendar Link to RSS 11 September 2025 13:15 | Seminar Seminar by Dann

https://www.astro.lu.se/division-astrophysics - 2025-07-23

  HT2005  VT2005  HT2004  VT2004  HT2003  VT2003  HT2002  VT2002  HT2001  VT2001      FALL 2005     05-Sep-2005 Frederick M. WALTER, Stony Brook University The Extended Atmosphere of V471 Tau: Clues to the magnetic morphology of T Tauri stars and the young Sun? 08-Sep-2005 Peter WHEATLEY, Warwick Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) 15-Sep-2005 Eva GREBEL, Basle The Violent Local Group - A History

https://www.astro.lu.se/LundObservatory/previous-seminars-2001-2005 - 2025-07-23

  HT2010  VT2010  HT2009  VT2009  HT2008  VT2008  HT2007  VT2007  HT2006  VT2006      FALL 2010     August 18th, 2010 Benjamin Knispel, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, IMPRS, Germany The Einstein@Home Search for Arecibo's Tightest Binary Radio Pulsar   August 26th, 2010 Jie Chen, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Lund, Sweden Solar coronal loops   September 2nd, 2010 Jennifer Joh

https://www.astro.lu.se/LundObservatory/previous-seminars-2006-2010 - 2025-07-23

  HT2015  VT2015  HT2014  VT2014  HT2013  VT2013  HT2012  VT2012  HT2011  VT2011      FALL 2015   2015-09-03 Paul McMillan, Lund Observatory Advances in understanding Milky Way dynamics   2015-09-09 (ATP Seminar) Alex Mustill, Lund Observatory Dynamic exoplanets   2015-09-10 Ted Gull, Goddard Space Flight Center / NASA Exploring Eta Carinae in 3 and 4 Dimensions   2015-09-16 Douglas Heggie, Univer

https://www.astro.lu.se/LundObservatory/previous-seminars-2011-2015 - 2025-07-23

The Division of Astrophysics owns and operates a planetarium, which is located at the university science center; Vattenhallen. There our astronomers give shows and lectures to the public and to school groups. We also host teacher education courses and give some of our university course lectures at the planetarium. The Lund University Planetarium is open to the public on weekends and during school

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/planetarium - 2025-07-23

Lund Observatory together with The Royal Observatory Greenwich offer a selection of their fulldome productions free of charge to digital planetaria around the world. If you are interested in one of our productions then we ask you to please Request Access. Once you have completed the request form you will receive an email containing a password. You can then use set password to access and download t

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/fulldome-resources - 2025-07-23

The Tycho Brahe Astronomical Society (Swedish: Astronomiska Sälskapet Tycho Brahe, or ASTB) was founded in 1937 by professor Knut Lundmark of Lund Observatory. ASTB is open for all who are interested in astronomy, both professionals and amateur astronomers. They host regilar meetings and events on a variety of astronomical topics. The Tycho Brahe Astonomical Society The Tycho Brahe Astronomical So

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/tycho-brahe-astronomical-society - 2025-07-23

The telescopes at Lund Observatory are primarily used for university education, but every now and then we take them out and invite the public to come and take a closer look at the night sky.  These observing events are organized by volunteers and are free of charge.If you are interested in attending a stargazing event we strongly recommend that you join our 2025 mailing list.  Some outreach events

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/stargazing - 2025-07-23

Background of the Swedish National 7T facility   The application for the national 7T facility was submitted to the Swedish research council (VR) in April 2010. Applicants represented Lund University (LU), Umeå University, Uppsala University, the Karolinska Institute, Linköping University and Gothenburg University. The application was granted in late 2011 by VR/RFI. In April 2011, after signing the

https://www.lbic.lu.se/national-7t-facility - 2025-07-23

We offer a fully equipped radiochemistry laboratory where we can label everything from liposomes, antibodies and proteins and all the way down to small molecules. Please inquire the facility coordinator if you have a project in mind and want to know more.  In general, SPECT tracers are synthesized upon request, while PET tracers are available or can be made available with minimum set-up time (see

https://www.lbic.lu.se/explore-our-infrastructure/preclinical-nuclear-medicine/radiochemistry - 2025-07-23

Scanning electron microscopy Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a retinal cell growing on patterned gallium phosphide nanowire array.Image by Sebastian Wasserstrom, Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), Lund University, Sweden. Confocal microscopy Confocal image showing Indian Muntjack Fibroblasts stained for Actin (green), mitochondria (red) and nuclei (blue).Image by Sebastian Wasse

https://www.lbic.lu.se/explore-our-infrastructure/microscopy/gallery-0 - 2025-07-23

Surface of pig wound Dendritic cell Laser shining on the 2D trap with atoms Rat head Human lung tissue Stainless steel screw in rat femur Anolis lizard fetus Exterior rat skeleton Tractography by the beach

https://www.lbic.lu.se/explore-our-infrastructure/analysis-visualization/gallery - 2025-07-23

SPECT/CT SPECT/CT image of 177Lu-labelled antibody in an LNCaP xenograft.Courtesy of Dr. Oskar Vilhelmsson Timmermand, Systemic radiation therapy, Dept of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.   Micro-CT Micro-CT image (to the left) and 3D visualisation (to the right) of a mouse knee joint reconstructed at a 10 micron voxel size.Image by Dr. Marie Sydoff, Lund University Bioimaging Centre (L

https://www.lbic.lu.se/explore-our-infrastructure/preclinical-nuclear-medicine/gallery - 2025-07-23

The 7T facility is now fully open for research. Contact us for further information about the contents of the upgrade, impacts on your project or discussion of new project ideas! HistoryInstallation period: 29 July - 15 August - The installation started on schedule and was finished in a little under three weeks. This included work on the electric installations and all backups of previous scanner co

https://www.lbic.lu.se/explore-our-infrastructure/national-7t-facility/equipment/2024-upgrade-information - 2025-07-23