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The rotation of Jupiter in 30 minutes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...