Welcome to the Girls’Day at April 27 at the school observatory Waldbröl/Schnörringen. The Schnörringen Telescope Science Institute (STScI) operates an observatory for youngsters in Waldbröl with the largest...
As I drove home from work and switched on the Radio, the announcer finished his last sentence about northern lights even above middle Germany. Annoyed that I missed this interesting report but much more intrigued by...
It’s easy to forget that our sun is also a star and observations with the right instruments are very exciting. All stations in our school lab are equipped from the start with special filters that attenuate all...
After never having been able to photograph a comet in the last few years, mainly because of the weather, this year it looked as if the weather had planned to make up for the drought of the last few years in one fell...
The Rosette Nebula is a beautiful astrophotography target that can be explored even with small telescopes. Rosette is the French word for small rose. With a little imagination, the finished image certainly lives up to...
Our school observatory is professionally digitalized and has access to the Internet. This contains significant dangers, especially for the youngsters, which we actively counteract with a strong firewall and a well...
While the telescopes are occupied or you are waiting for the exposure series to finish, you don’t have to fall prey to boredom. There are many interesting sidelines in the observatory. One of my personal favorites...
After a long time of doing nothing because of the weather now again a clear night has announced itself – as in winter so often also a bitterly cold night. Nevertheless, Patrick and I did not want to miss the short...
You don’t always have to expose objects thousands of light years away for hours to see interesting objects or events in space – sometimes you can stay in the astronomical front yard, and observe very fast...
Before it gets wet and cold outside, we continue to pursue our plans to digitize the observatory. In order to stay up to date as a place of learning and scientific institution, the three telescopes in our school lab are...
On Tuesday, 25.10. there was a partial solar eclipse over Central Europe – unfortunately for our region an almost complete cloud cover was announced. The research class 5c of the comprehensive school Waldbröl...
It is easy to think that the night sky in Oberberg is very dark. And indeed, measurements show that our region is not bad by Central European standards (). However, there can be local exceptions – like in...
