STScI

A teacher on the journey

Our club member Frank Bohlscheid teaches German and Latin during the day, but at night he likes to travel into the infinite spaces. As an experienced astrophotographer he always delivers new delicacies of the universe...

A book for billions

After the German book of our association chairman Thomas Eversberg about the alleged “moon landing conspiracy” has already been translated into English, Springer Science Publishing has now published a...

Shadow dance

The four large moons of Jupiter regularly cast shadows on their planet during their orbit. Our club member and teacher at the Gesamtschule Waldbröl Günter Dombrowski captured this spectacle with a short image sequence...

At dizzying heights

Working at the dome slit is not popular in our group. When you are balancing with tools at a height of several meters above our main telescope and actually always lack a hand to hold on to, a certain tension likes to...