SpaceKoelsch2
#SpaceKoelsch2 - The Return of the SpaceKoelsch
Location:
Brauhaus Päffgen, Downtown Cologne, Germany
Google Maps / Next public transport station: Friesenplatz (U-Bahn 3, 4, 5, 12, 15)
Organiser: Henning Krause (@henningkrause)
Program:
- Start: Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 20:00
- End: open
Open for #SpaceTweetup participants, all other space fans and their friends/family. Spread the word! Bring all kinds of SpaceTweetup gear, pics, videos, space mascots and awesomeness!
Reports, Photos, Video
- @simsullen
- @gravinaut on Facebook and another one
- @cpamoa on Facebook @cpamoa on flickr
- @cpamoa on Youtube (Astropeiler) @cpamoa on Youtube (Effelsberg)
- @timmermansr on Facebook
- @timmermansr
- @mfrissen on Facebook
- @giniexxcee on Facebook
- @henningkrause on Flickr
- @henningkrause on vimeo @henningkrause on vimeo
- @Scoop_Girl on Facebook
- @CaoilinnS on Facebook
- @martincco on Facebook
Participants
If you're joining, please add your name and twitter account (klick on Edit on top of the page). Please sort alphabetically by twitter account name.
- @4tuneQkie (Alex Neumann)
- @AndreasSchepers (Andreas Schepers)
- @avatar (Tim Bartel)
- @CaoilinnS (Claudia Bothe)
- @cosmos4u (Daniel Fischer)
- @cpamoa (Anne)
- @danielscuka (Daniel Scuka)
- @fischblog (Lars Fischer)
- @giniexxcee (Virginie Courbin)
- @gravinaut (Christian Lüthen aka Arthur Dent (on FB))
- @henningkrause (Henning Krause)
- @Honischblume (Andrea Schaub)
- @JustBe74 (Joachim Baptist)
- @Katti (Kathrin Grannemann)
- @LindaL72 (Linda Lemmens)
- @marco_t (Marco Trovatello)
- @martincco (Martin Stojanovski)
- @mfrissen (Marco Frissen)
- @nhaima (Simona Forti)
- @pikarl (Karl Urban)
- @RNTechnician (Thomas Wehr)
- @RocketEddy (Ed Trollope)
- @Scoop_Girl (Andreea Teoharescu)
- @SimSullen (Simon Bierwald)
- @smarcu (Sebastian Marcu)
- @starlingLX (Alex von Eckartsberg)
- @TimmermansR (Remco Timmermans, with @SpaceHuggie)
- @travelholic (Eico Neumann)
- @UN_SPIDER (Peter Stumpf) @kebap
- @unkreativnet (Stefan)
- @WimVO (Wim Van Oudenhove)
- Alex's Flickr Page (Alex Tudorica)
- @??? (Christian Fritzkowski)
- @??? (Jan Hattenbach)
- Not sure yet: @tjaap (Jaap Meijers aka @twisst)
pre-Launch event for Friday arrivals, Friday 13 January 2012 from 20:00
On Friday evening the early arrivals - and anyone else that wants to join - is welcome for pre-launch dinner and drinks at Bierhaus Salzgass in Köln Altstadt (Salzgasse 5-7). We try to be there from 20:00 onwards. No rservations have been made, so we will see who comes. Place is open until 3am. This place is at a short walking distance from the apartment hotel where half the group is staying.
#EifelDishes - Observatories tour, Saturday 14 January 2012
A Saturday or Sunday visit to DLR Cologne and EAC is not possible, Henning double checked it - sorry!
Instead Henning suggests the following #EifelDishes field trip 10 am to 6 pm on #SpaceKoelsch2 day:
- 10.00 meet at Lenneper Straße, Colgone Google Maps. It's a small street just north of "Köln Messe/Deutz" S-Bahn, South of Barmer Platz. To go there by car: Drive to Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße, going north you will want to make a u-turn just before "Koelnmesse" U-Bahn station. Then take a right in Barmer Straße (one-way) and continue to Lenneper Straße (one-way as well). The houses on Barmer Platz you see on Google Maps satellite images are gone since a few years. Barmer Platz is empty. To go there by public transport: Take S-Bahn or U-Bahn to Köln Messe/Deutz. From U-Bahn follow signs to "S-Bahn", on the end of the long tunnel leave the station, immediately take a right on Lenneper Straße. From S-Bahn exit platform on the east end (the one pointing away from Rhine River and Cologne Cathedral), where the elevator is. While going down the stairs, you will spot "Köln Messe" (Trade fair) and the empty Barmer Platz. Keep left on Lenneper Straße.
- 10.30 depart Cologne (transportation: sharing cars people bring anyway: Henning, Remco, Simon, Karl, Eico, Thomas)
- 12.00-14.00 Stockert Astropeiler 25 meter dish (Wikipedia)
- 14.00-15.00 Transfer Stockert - Effelsberg (Lunch on the way)
- 15.00-17.00 Effelsberg 100 meter dish (Wikipedia) (GSM/GPRS/UMTS devices allowed in flight-mode only due to interfernce with ongoing measurements. Possibility of a walking tour of the dish itself still to be checked, unlikely for a 15+ people group.)
- 17.00-18.00 Transfer back to Cologne
- 18.00 back in Cologne (hotel check-in etc.)
- 20.00 #SpaceKoelsch2
Please sign in at the #EifelDishes doodle, so we can organize transportation and let Effelsberg and Astropeiler know how many of us will show up.
Expenses
Astropeiler entrance fee is 60 Euro for 15 people + 3 Euro per person for more people. So the total cost per person will be approx 4 Euro.
Other ideas for pre-SpaceKoelsch2 activities and trips in the Cologne area
What to do on Saturday, January 14, 2012 during the day?
- Walking tour: Köln Altstadt, including Panorama tower
- Movie "Baikonur" together
- Spacetweetup movie by @giniexxcee
- Short impression of @astro_andre's launch from Baikonur (by @timmermansr)
- Soaking in the fabulous thermal baths at Mauritius Hotel
- ...
Places to stay at in Cologne
- Most of the group are staying at Apartment Hotel Hayk in Köln Altstadt
- Cologne Youth Hostel
- http://www.fewos-koeln.de/ (german only)
- http://www.ferienwohnungen.de/ (german only)
- http://www.deutsche-pensionen.de (german only)
- http://www.traum-ferienwohnungen.de (german only)
