Together with the Oberberg Education Office, we took part in the nationwide Reading Day. The response from pupils was surprisingly high for us, especially as their schools were not exactly around the corner. The “booth”...
The astronomy group from Homburgisches Gymnasium Nümbrecht visited us to get to know the school laboratory and its instruments together with their teachers Axel Peter Lepsius and Daniel Jacobs. Somehow a lot of older...
Our youngest comrade-in-arms Fion has now entered the orbit of an alien planet. He only needed the simplest means. No complex media technology, Photoshop or even artificial intellgence intelligence, which no child or...
… was our offer as part of the Oberberg Education Office’s MINTeraktiv STEM academy. In no time at all, our spaceship was filled with young astronauts aged 6 to 11 and we were ready to go. Our captains...
Our new colleague Rüdiger F. presented a fantastic video clip to us. Video: Meteors flying around the corner… Apart from the fact that he was able to record auroras over Ruppichteroth on August 12th...
The Cave Nebula in the popular constellation of Cepheus (in mythology an Ethiopian king, consort of Cassiopeia and father of Andromeda) is a relatively rare target for astrophotographers. It is about 2400 light years...
… was announced. And auroras should also be visible. So we took advantage of the good but cold weather for the next few days, pointed our cameras at the horizon and waited doggedly. And waited and waited…...
Impressive results can be achieved in a very short time in our school lab. One example is the rotation of Jupiter, which Patrick Staden was able to capture with a very small but fast CCD camera. He took many pictures in...
Our beginners’ course for interested teachers in our school lab is now a regular series of events to learn how to use our instruments. The weather was good again in September. In addition to learning how to use...
As part of a generous donation, managers from Kampf in Wiehl came to find out about our work. After an explanation of our didactic content and a tour through the observatory, the good weather was put to good use...
… wrote club member Michael Haake after he photographed the partial lunar eclipse on September 18 from his balcony. Apart from his achievement of watching the event at 4.00 a.m., the image taken with a Canon...
The Dumbbell Nebula M 27 is a planetary nebula. The classification planetary refers to the time of the discovery of the planet Uranus, as the shape of some nebulae are similar to planets and were mostly classified as...
