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A Wolf-Rayet star in the nebula

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...

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...