STScI

It’s cold when the sky is clear…

… 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...

An exploding star

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...

An impressive campaign

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...

Christmas 2024

Happy children In the happy children’s sky the stars of joy bright and pure; O beware of darkening them and rejoice in their glow. Julius Karl Reinhold Sturm (1816-1896) We wish all friends of the Waldbröl school...