Prof. i.R. Dr. Udo Backhaus

  • Former head of Backhaus Working Group on Physics Education (Campus Essen) until 31st July, 2011

Research Interests

  • Physics education

  • Experimental physics

  • Dynamic systems

  • Astronomy

Current Research

Astrometry, especially

  • Orbit determination of the maior planets by simple means,
  • Determination of the sun's parallax,
  • Measurements of trigonometric parallaxes of stars, for instance of Barnard's star and 61 Cyg 

Astronomy On-Line: Measuring the Distance to the Sun

Astronomy On-Line: Measuring the Distance to The Sun - Final Report


Experiments for physics teachers


Theory of Relativity:


International Year of Astronomy 2009


The transit of Venus 2012

Transit of Mercury 2016

Transit of Mercury 2019

Merkurtransit19

 

 


Astronomy and internet in the Ruhr-area

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Materials for dealing with astronomical themes in school

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Example: Mars loop 2022/23

Publications

List of typical publications

Publications and other material
Due to a cyber attack the former version of my homepage (www.didaktik.physik.uni-due.de/backhaus) is no more accessible. However, material with the url given there can be found by changing the first part of the former url, www.didaktik.physik.uni-due.de/backhaus/, by http://wp14169446.server-he.de/.

Example:
http://www.didaktik.physik.uni-due.de/backhaus/AstroMaterialien/   --> http://wp14169446.server-he.de/AstroMaterialien/

Parallaxk
​Measurements of trigonometric parallaxes of stars
(click on the picture to get a larger demonstration of parallactic and proper motion!)   

Kamx099rk
​The appearance of fast moving objects

Koblenznamibia

Moon, Jupiter and Saturn - photographed simultaneously from Namibia and Germany