PhD meet-up – Visit of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Calern site

After the visit of the Mont Gros site, AJC06 invites you to visit the Calern site of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur!

• Date: Friday 19 July [new date]
• Time: 14:00 – 16:00
• Place: Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Calern site, 2130 route de l’Observatoire, 06460 Caussols

Limited places! The tour is in French. Registration is free but required.

Discover an exceptional site near Grasse, whose natural and scientific heritage will amaze you.

On this guided tour, learn more about the scientific life of the plateau, past and present. A little history: since the 1970s, the Calern plateau has hosted instruments that pioneered their fields, notably in laser ranging and interferometry. The Schmidt telescope – the largest in Europe in its class – was in intense use until the early 2000s for wide-field imaging of small objects. Since 1988, the Calern plateau has been an observing site of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur.

Come and see Antti Lovag’s Bubble Houses and how they work as instrument shelters, walk across a moon-like plateau and discover the science being done today by the Observatoire’s researchers and engineers. Some projects build on past experience, such as the special links between astronomy and geophysics or solar physics, while others are innovative projects involved in university training for and through research.