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Allsky for Schools

The Waldbröl Observatory demonstrates how modern astronomy can be made accessible even with simple tools: Club member Patrick Staden has developed a mobile Allsky camera—an exciting technology project for students in...

The observatory comes to schools

The 11th grade physics advanced course at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Betzdorf was one of the first schools to borrow a robotic telescope from the school observatory, a Seestar S50, from September 2025 to February 2026...

FIRE IN THE OBSERVATORY…

…was the subject of a training exercise by our volunteer fire department in Heide. After the head of operations, Felix Monscheuer, had inspected our facility a few days earlier, a fire suddenly broke out in our...

Lecture evenning at the observatory

The James Webb Space Telescope: more than spectacular! Prof. Dr. Uli Klein Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn Launched on Boxing Day 2021, the space telescope has not only met expectations...