STScI

Movie night at the observatory

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...

A globular cluster in the large telescope

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...

Moon and galaxies with the next generation

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...

Collecting photons…

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...