We have now set up the new wide-field telescope under its dome. Our optical telescope equipment is now complete. All of the telescopes that have been permanently installed to date are actually telephoto lenses with a long focal length and correspondingly small fields of view. The new telescope, on the other hand, acts like a wide-angle lens with a correspondingly large field of view. This is illustrated by the image of the Andromeda Galaxy, into which we have copied the Moon to scale for comparison. The red rectangle shows the image size of the telescopes in our student laboratory, while the yellow square shows that of our large telescope. Only with the new telescope and its new CCD camera can we image the entire galaxy. In addition to such images, students can now use professional filters to conduct astrophysics research on open star clusters, for example, and determine their age, which should be of particular interest for special learning achievements. Like all other telescopes, the station will be digitally controllable and can be operated from our control room.
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