Travel to the stars with the Children's University

The clear starry sky has fascinated people for millennia. "What you see with the naked eye is just a taste of the beautiful cosmos in which we travel," says engineer Shadi Sykora, 33, of the university's Physics Lab. "Come with us on a journey from the BTU to the stars and much further!"

The telescope from the BTU's Measurement and Sensor Technology Laboratory reveals details of planets, nebulae and galaxies, which the Children's University speaker will present and explain to participants.

Students from the third to sixth grades are cordially invited to attend the Children's University lecture "Fascination Astronomy" from the comfort of their sofa at home. After the required registration by e-mail, they will be sent the link to access the lecture.

The lecture of the children's university for the participants at the central campus Cottbus begins on Thursday, February 24, at 15 and 17:15 o'clock and lasts 45 minutes. Registrations and inquiries can be made at the e-mail address heike.postelt(at)b-tu.de or by calling 03573 85-280.

On Saturday, 26 February, at 11 o'clock begins this lecture for the participants of the child university at the Campus Senftenberg. For this registrationsand/or further inquiries under the email address kinderuni(at)b-tu.de as well as under telephone 03573 85-335 take place.

The master graduate of the study course electrical engineering of the BTU Shadi Sykora engages himself in many interdisciplinary project works, so for example as a supervisor in the project seminar mechatronics and computer-aided measurement data acquisition. Here, students developed, for example, the motorized telescope control and the camera-based tracking of the BTU telescope with specially modified camera and color filters.

His great passion is astronomy. Thus, Shadi Sykora uses every starry night for observations and astrophotography. In cooperation with the association Planetarium Senftenberg e.V., which is located in the youth center Pegasus, incredibly impressive pictures of the night sky were taken for the presentation in the context of the children's university.

Background Children's lectures are intended to arouse interest in solving scientific and other questions at an early age. They also give children the opportunity to experience the flair of a university up close. The BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg conveys approaches to solving scientific phenomena of everyday life in a child-friendly, exciting way and thus creates formative experiences and experiences that are also intended to facilitate access to a university in particular.

Further information on the Children's and Pupils' University and the other BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg offers for children and pupils: www.b-tu.de/unileben/kinder-und-schueler