As a beginner observer, who isn’t in awe of telescope technology? And which teachers have the time to familiarize themselves with the technology for their pupils? And how can you get pupils interested in something like this? We are trying to answer these questions with so-called robotic smart telescopes, which we lend free of charge for six months to interested schools in our Astronomie Oberberg school network. These telescopes do everything by themselves. You put it on the ground, select a target object in the app, and off you go. After a few seconds, the device automatically finds the sun, moon, nebula, or galaxies and begins exposure (https://kurzlinks.de/nt19, more information on the Internet). Schoolchildren have an immediate sense of achievement without any training and can process the images further according to their interests. It is therefore perfectly suited for astronomy projects at school and/or in an astronomy club.
Günter Dombrowski from the Waldbröl Comprehensive School has now received his device and was able to observe the lunar eclipse the following day without any prior knowledge and despite difficult weather conditions.
Photo: Günter Dombrowski. Text: Thomas Eversberg
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