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...
20. October 2024
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Journey through the cosmos…
… 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...
20. October 2024
Meteors flying around the corner…
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...
17. October 2024
In the caves of the king
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...
17. October 2024
A fantastic comet…
… 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…...
12. October 2024
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...
6. October 2024
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
