We have been working on the installation of our professional spectrograph for a few weeks now. Now we have installed the camera and carried out the first measurements. Due to the very high sensitivity of the optical...
… and since we make the most of every clear night, we have a warm control room for our telescopes in winter. So turn on the heating, connect the telescopes to the computer, put some hot tea on the table, put on...
Last November, a star of 8 to 45 solar masses exploded in the galaxy NGC 2146 in the constellation Camelopardalis. This happened around 46 million light years away from us. The galaxy is speeding away from us at almost...
As the observatory does not stand on its own property its preservation in the distant future was unsecured. There was a permanent threat of high property taxes that the association could not cover. In an unprecedented...
