Activities of Józefosław Astro-Geodetic Observatory in the last five decades

Astro-Geodetic Observatory in Józefosław, witch belongs to the Departament of Geodesy and Geodetic Astronomy of the Warsaw University of Technology, started to permanent observations in 1958. First of them was time service started in February 1958, coordinated by BIH. From 1959 astrometrial latitude measurements have been done with aim to determine the parameters of the Earth rotation. In 1991 the Observatory was joned to the International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS) and started to operate as a permanent one in 1993. There have been performed many observations and scientific researches, such as: GPS in the frame of IGS/IGLOS/EUREF; tidal observations; absolute gravity measurements; changes of the vertical, based on the gravimetric measurements; astrometric observations and metrology. Moreover studies on RTK and DGPS measurements using mobile phone for data transmision are performed since 1998. WUT EUREF Lokal Analysis Centre, one of the 17 Lokal Analysis Centres acting in Europe, is a very important part of the Observatory. The Centre makes continuous service of one-week and daily aolution in the farme of EPN network, processes national and international GPS campaigns (CEGRN, EXTENDED SAGET etc.), models ionosphere and troposphere parameters, compute tidal components and changes of the vertical according to astrometric and gravimetric measurenents. This paper present history and current state of the art of the Observatory's activites.