TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Curticapean, Dan A1 - Vauderwange, Oliver A1 - Heitz, Benjamin ED - Poulin-Girard, Anne-Sophie ED - Shaw, Joseph A. T1 - Astronomical events and their impact on knowledge transfer in optics and photonics T2 - Proceedings of SPIE: Fifteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics N2 - We present our twenty years of experience in the live broadcasting of astronomical events, with the main focus on total lunar eclipses. Our efforts were motivated by the great impact and high number of viewers of these events. Visitors from over a hundred countries watched our live broadcasts. Our viewer record was set on July 27, 2018, with the live transmission of the total lunar eclipse from the Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Black Forest, attracting nearly half a million viewers in five hours. An especially challenging activity was the live observing of the Mercury transit on 9 May 2016, which we presented as ‘live astronomy’ with hands-on telescope. The main goal of this event was to awake our students enthusiasm for optics and astronomy. Furthermore, we report on our experiences with the photography of optical phenomena such as polar lights and green flash. KW - Education in Optics and Photonics KW - Astronomical events KW - Live Broadcasting Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11143/111431O/Astronomical-events-and-their-impact-on-knowledge-transfer-in-optics/10.1117/12.2522847.full?SSO=1 SN - 0277-786X (Print) SS - 0277-786X (Print) SN - 1996-756X (Online) SS - 1996-756X (Online) SN - 9781510629790 (Print) SB - 9781510629790 (Print) SN - 978151062980 (Online) SB - 978151062980 (Online) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2522847 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2522847 VL - 11143 SP - 111431O-1 EP - 111431O-10 S1 - 10 PB - SPIE CY - Bellingham, Washington ER -