More than 50 years ago, men flew to the moon. This is repeatedly questioned and spread as a so-called conspiracy and moon landing hoax. For one of the most important events in world history, astrophysicist and space...
As a beginner observer, who isn’t in awe of telescope technology? And which teachers have the time to familiarize themselves with the technology for their pupils? And how can you get pupils interested in something...
Apparently, we were mistaken, because just last week we located our board at Simon Gier and Klaus Vollmann as they cemented the telescope column of the upper auxiliary station. Now we have installed the heavy mount and...
Finally, we can get back to concrete work… we really missed the sweat-inducing labor with dirt and heavy materials. Fortunately, we were able to make up for lost time at our upper secondary station. Our board was...
In a distant galaxy, millions of light-years away from us, a star has exploded – and we were able to watch it! This powerful stellar explosion is called Supernova 2025rbs and was discovered in the galaxy NGC 7331 in the...
Travel – night work – clouds. Astronomers struggle with obstacles. We want to overcome these with a new observation station. A radio telescope is actually nothing more than an optical telescope. It only works at...
The Crescent Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus is a beautiful summer object. The source of this emission nebula, which is around 4,700 light years away, is its central Wolf-Rayet star WR137. This massive star is...
The Schnörringen Observatory invites you to a movie screening. As part of a series of events on the subject of space travel, we will be showing an exciting documentary on the subject of the moon landing on a cozy film...
Since we put our large telescope into operation, we have been working on setting up various peripheral systems that have to work together harmoniously. These are the automatic focus, the pressure in the air cushion...
Just like last year, pupils from Engelbert von Berg-Gymnasium in Wipperfürth visited us with their teacher David Dudziak to find out about our work and the opportunities on site. We discussed general questions about...
Astrophotographers collect as many photons as possible and therefore have to expose their images for a long time – or they use several telescopes simultaneously. We have three identical telescopes and cameras in...
The Dumbbell Nebula, Messier 27, in the constellation Vulpecula, is one of the most beautiful planetary nebulae in the northern night sky and is about 1,300 light years away. The nebula is the ejected gas shell of a...
