The historical committee studies the history of the Leiden observatory and more generally the history of astronomy. Their current main goal is to create a new version of the Red Book. For this we are reading all sorts of old texts, gathering old photographs and interviewing astronomers. All of this information is put onto the wiki, to make it easier to access for the tour guides. On this page you can find information about the interviewed people and links to books and papers of interest.

Below a list of people who were and need to be interviewed by our committee and the outcome. Here the questions that are asked. (Dutch) The interviews can be found on yourlisten.com (dispuutkaiser/bakhuyzen)

Tourguides and their memories related to the observatory and tours.

Here a few interesting texts that are worth reading.

• Identifying the source of perytons at the Parkes radio telescope - In this article they explain that microwave ovens are the source of a mysterious particle type detected by radio telescopes.
• Potassium Flares - Strange flares seen in solar spectra, caused by astronomers who lit their pipe with a match during observations.

roodboekje.docx - a word doc of the red book made by Dominique.

In the nieuwboekje page we will collect and sort all old and new stories for the new book.

The Historical Committee has the following email address: historical@dispuutkaiser.nl. All mails sent to this address are redirected automatically to your own private email address.

Sending emails is also possible, albeit not straightforward. You can find a tutorial here: Sending and Receiving emails

The current historical committee, which includes the current board, has the following members:

• Carlijn Veldhuis
• Zsofia Szalavari
• Carmen Turner
• Kira Strelow
• Rick Dullaart
• Stan Verhoeve
• Rahul Priyadarshan

• Alex Pietrow
• Gilles Otten
• Sascha Zeegers
• Jort Boxelaar