The planet Mars is currently in a very favorable position in the night sky. You can discover it shortly after sunset as a brightly shining, reddish “star” in the constellation Pisces in the east. It stands...
Our member Frank Bohlscheid is an experienced astrophotographer and regularly shows what is possible with a small telescope. He uses a Newton telescope with an aperture of 20cm (even smaller than at our school...
The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) in the constellation Cygnus (above) has an apparent extension of about 10 arc minutes. This is one third of the diameter of the full moon. It is about 3000 light-years away from Earth, so its...
After the drive units of the large dome were overhauled, we had to seal some joints and ducts. Since these cannot be reached by ladders from the outside, we used a lifting platform and also cleaned the dome from pollen...
