STScI

A new nearby supernova

A week ago, a new supernova, or exploding star, was discovered in the Pinwheel Galaxy, 21 million light-years away. While this event can’t be seen with the naked eye, the equipment in the school lab makes it easy...

Motorcycle Rockers at the Observatory

We had already feared it – again and again one warned us that our observatory could attract also dubious figures, but we dismissed this again and again as exaggerated fear. Today it happened. The first rocker...

Astronomy is civil engineering

After all the years of construction, we still experience special machines for our work from time to time. A vibrating plate was in our professional use at some point, but not in the fingers of our club members. Simon...

The observatory is officially opened

Together with our sponsors and helpers we celebrated the opening of the observatory on May 6. The appreciation of the supporters by our association board (Dr. Thomas Eversberg), greetings from the Oberbergischer Kreis...