Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik

Abteilung Astronomie

About This Server

Different languages on this server

Although this server is located in Germany most of these web pages are in English to make them available for the community. Only a few web pages contain parts in German language where it is not reasonable to translate these parts.

HTML usage on this server's web pages

"But beware of the dark side... If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will..."
"...Is the dark side stronger?"
"No...no...no. Quicker, easier, more seductive."

Yoda and Luke Skywalker, The Empire Strikes Back
Spoken about the Force, but just as appropriate in reference to HTML.

All web pages on this server with the official logo and header of the Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Abt. Astronomie, are designed without any special Netscape or Internet Explorer features according to the following lines:

• All these pages do not contain frames, large background or foreground images or Java applets if they are not announced on the preceeding page.
• All these pages do not contain large tables. If tables are required they are announced on the preceeding page and an alternative version as preformatted text is offered as well. Any small table must gracefully degrade if the preformatted text is omitted.
• Included images have an ALT attribute with a descripition of the images.

• All these pages are HTML 3.2 (Wilbur) documents validated by WebTechs HTML Validation Service
• All these pages are best viewed with any browser without any loss of information and with insignificant loss of the document's format.
• All these pages are tested with NCSA Mosaic 2.4 (which does not understand background color, tables, image alignment), Lynx 2.7 (text browser) using Steven L. Baur's Lynx Viewer , Netscape 3.01 and MS Internet Explorer 3.0.

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