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...
6. October 2024
News
New teacher seminar
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...
24. September 2024
Corporate responsibility
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...
19. September 2024
Not particularly “crisp”….
… 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...
18. September 2024
The Dumbbell Nebula long exposed
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...
13. September 2024
GC-heat Social Day for the observatory
For several years now, the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce has held an annual Trainee Social Day. On these days, trainees from participating companies get involved in a “good cause”. The commitment is very...
12. September 2024
A new milestone
We normally work on technical challenges whose solutions usually run in the background. This is also the case with the construction of our large telescope, which places very high demands on the accuracy of its...
29. August 2024
First public observation day
After some interested persons had contacted us via our website for observations, we now used the good weather for an open observation day. We were able to welcome around 30 visitors. As the sun is at its maximum...
10. August 2024
Honoured by the Minister President
The Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst, invited volunteers from the Oberberg district to a reception to honour their commitment. The board of the school observatory, Dr Thomas Eversberg and Dr...
8. August 2024
Hollenberg project day “Doing something together today”
On July 4, 32 pupils from grades 5 to 10, accompanied by Thomas Strauch and Frank Bohlscheid, who both teach astronomy courses at Hollenberg-Gymnasium Waldbröl, set off to visit the school observatory in Schnörringen...
15. July 2024
A wide-field telescope
Our combined funding application to the EU LEADER Oberberg program, the Hans Hermann Voss Foundation and the Rotary Club Gummersbach for a wide-field telescope and its instrumentation (mount, camera, filter) was...
2. July 2024
An astronomy course on site
Pupils at Engelbert von Berg-Gymnasium in Wipperfürth chose astronomy as a specialisation course and found out about our technical equipment and the opportunities for astronomical work at our site. The weather was...
26. June 2024
