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In article <AWOOTTEN.93Jan21151259@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu> awootten@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu (Al Wootten) writes:
>I once spent the better part of two
>days in Copenhagen trying to figure out how to get to Hven without success.
>I learned one should leave from Sweden.  Thoren mentions plans to reconstruct
>Uraniborg...anyone know anything more on that subject?

  I've delayed responding, assuming that someone closer to the source
might...  We went to Hven (vein or vain for at least American English
speakers) last August.  We left from K/obenhavn on what looked like a
regular trip, though we were a group so I don't really know.  The
departure dock was near the boat for Poland, if that helps any.

  Apparently Tycho was not too well thought of :) and after he left for
France the remnants of Uranienborg (sp?) were pretty much eliminated by
the local populace.  Recently, they've decided that he was worth a
statue, and have begun reconstruction.  His observatory has been dug
up, so you can see the foundations upon which his instruments sat, and
the ex-bolt-holes that held them before he ripped them out for the
move.  The "castle" is gone.  There's now a brick outline of where it
used to be that's been put in place, though there's some uncertainty in
the exact shape and size.  Now they're rebuilding the garden adjacent.
There's not a lot of money for the project, I don't think the
planet-groupie audience is that large.  A far cry from when he had ~10%
of the national budget.  Oh, and there's a statue.  Have your picture
taken in front of it.  You'll get a lot of people wondering what on Earth
you're doing and who that strange person is.

  In any event the island was on the idyllic side.  Partly because it
was sunny that day, having rained the entire week before.  Rent a
bicycle and do the tour.

  I hope this synopsis is at least mostly right.  I realize this 
"travelogue" doesn't really belong here, except for the word "Tycho".

Mike Nolan nolan@{lpl.arizona.edu,arizona.bitnet,looney.span}
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721 USA
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