Stations Zimmerwald

Agency Astronomical Institute
University of Bern

Mailing Address Sidlerstrasse 5
CH-3012 Bern

Primary Contact

    Contact Name Werner Gurtner

    Telephone (primary) ++41-31-6318591 (Institute)

    Telephone (secondary) ++41-31-8190050 (Observatory)

    Fax ++41-31-6313869

    E-Mail werner.gurtner@aiub.unibe.ch

Secondary Contact

    Contact Name Elmar Brockmann

    Telephone (primary) ++41-31-9632256

    Telephone (secondary) ++41-31-9632211

    Fax ++41-31-9632459

    E-Mail elmar.brockmann@lt.admin.ch

Zimmerwald Coordinates:

Approximate Position:

X coordinate [m]     4331283.7

Y coordinate [m]     567549.7

Z coordinate [m]     4633140.2

Latitude [deg]     46.8772 N

Longitude [deg]     7.4652 E

Elevation [m]     951.2

Additional Information

Zimmerwald News:

Local Events:

No local events found.

SLRMail Messages:

Date Subject

Thu Dec 19 16:00:02 MET 1996 New SLR System in Zimmerwald

Mon Jul 28 18:00:03 MET DST 1997 ZIMLAT range bias

Fri Sep 12 09:00:02 MET DST 1997 ZIMLAT 7810: Range and Time Biases

Tue Jul 21 13:00:03 MET DST 1998 Zimmerwald down

Thu Jan 21 18:00:01 MET 1999 1 ns range bias of Zimmerwald 7810

Thu Jan 21 19:00:02 MET 1999 Remark to SLRMAIL No.229

Thu Sep 28 01:20:00 CEST 2000 Zimmerwald Web Page

Wed Jan 10 16:20:00 CET 2001 Status of Zimmerwald SLR Station

Fri May 10 14:57:14 CEST 2002 ZIML 7810: Passes of April 25/26 replaced

Fri May 31 08:42:02 CEST 2002 Zimmerwald Range Bias Removed

Thu Aug 15 12:09:57 CEST 2002 Dual-wavelength data from Zimmerwald

Tue Sep 17 18:06:07 CEST 2002 Zimmerwald out of operation (mirror recoating)

Tue Nov 12 17:26:10 CET 2002 Zimmerwald: Operational again

Tue Mar 11 18:35:17 CET 2003 Zimmerwald: Switch to CSPAD

Mon May 5 14:27:07 CEST 2003 Zimmerwald: Change in Minimum Elevation

Mon May 5 14:27:07 CEST 2003 Zimmerwald Range Bias on 03 May 2003

Wed Jul 9 16:30:45 CEST 2003 Zimmerwald: Two-wavelengths observations restarted

Tue Sep 9 18:12:08 CEST 2003 7810 ZIML Range Bias 23/24-08-2003

Wed Oct 1 09:31:39 CEST 2003 7810 ZIML: System down: Laser damaged

Mon Oct 6 13:13:18 CEST 2003 7810 ZIML: Operation resumed, IR only

Thu Apr 14 13:32:39 CEST 2005 7810 ZIML: Zimmerwald resumed operation

Tue Feb 7 01:10:16 CET 2006 7810 ZIML: Zimmerwald: Event timer installed: Change in range bias

Wed Jun 21 23:52:10 CEST 2006 7810 ZIML: Change in the calibration procedure

Thu Sep 13 19:06:03 CEST 2007 7810 ZIML data resubmitted: 24-26 Aug 2007

Thu Feb 7 23:41:16 CET 2008 7810 ZIML: Zimmerwald SLR down

Fri Apr 11 09:16:13 CEST 2008 7810 ZIML: Zimmerwald operational

Thu Oct 16 09:16:33 CEST 2008 7810 ZIML: Zimmerwald Range Bias Problem

Wed Oct 29 18:46:18 CET 2008 7810 ZIML: Zimmerwald Bias Problem Solved

Zimmerwald Link:

http://www.aiub.unibe.ch