… 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While I was at the observatory on a quiet Saturday, soldering away at a defective controller for a mount, I received a message from a club colleague: “Can you please take a look at which eyepiece we can use for...
Would you like to know how long it takes to take a photo of the sun? That’s why I went to the observatory and did a speedrun for a photo of the sun for you 5 minutes arrival. Put things down, unlock everything 15...
Our fiberglass dome was in urgent need of repair. The running surfaces of the dome slit were in a catastrophic condition and made a terrible noise when the slit was opened. We already had concerns about opening the dome...
