Naming after Archenhold Archenhold Observatory
participants of iiird world festival of youth , students visit archenhold observatory in august 1951
in 1946 city of berlin renamed observatory archenhold-sternwarte. on 1 june 1948 diedrich wattenberg, had been working archenhold, made director. annual visitor numbers rose 8,000 in 1946 25,000 in 1949. in 1958, great refractor decommissioned, retained monument of technology. 1959 onwards, observatory increasingly used school education in physics , astronomy. support this, in 1960s, 2 further domes erected in grounds. lecture theatre added, , in 1966 [[#solar physics cabinet][solar physics cabinet]] created, project sun @ 80 cm (31 in) diameter or solar spectrum @ 3 m (9.8 ft) length.
in november 1976, wattenberg retired , dieter b. herrmann made director of observatory. in march 1982, planetarium replaced. 1983 saw completion of reconstruction of great refractor, had started in 1977. annual visitor numbers during 1980s around 70,000 mark. archenhold had suggested major planetarium. became reality in 1987 when zeiss major planetarium built in ernst-thälmann-park. until 2013 , archenhold observatory formed single organisational entity.
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