Due to the increasing length of the day, the useful observation times during the month of May are reduced from five hours at the beginning to just two hours at the end of the month. This would mean that the start of observations of galaxies...
The different phases of twilight have an effect on the visibility of celestial bodies. During civil twilight, only the brightest stars can be seen, while more stars are visible during nautical twilight. During astronomical twilight...
Since the equinox on March 26, the nights are getting shorter than the days again, so we are approaching the beautiful summer time again, but unfortunately also the "astronomical summer slump". The opening hours of the observatory...
The goddess of love and the father of the gods come close at the beginning of the month The days are already getting noticeably longer, the sun passes the equator (20th beginning of spring) and summer time begins again last weekend. MOON On 7.3....
First of all, we would like to wish all visitors to our website a good start to the New Year. May it be filled with happiness and success. After many years, in January we have the chance to see a comet again with...
On December 8, 2022, Mars will reach its opposition to the Sun in the constellation Taurus. It will then be exactly opposite the Sun in the sky and come particularly close to Earth. Around 81.5 million kilometers separate us...
November is a month of meteors and shooting stars. During a meteor shower, fragments of a comet, the meteorites, enter the near-Earth atmosphere and burn up as shooting stars. On November 1st, the moon shows its...
Object of the week_2022-44 A long night of the planets This time there are five objects at once, as all five outer planets are currently visible in the night sky. It starts, at dusk, with the ...
Meteorite impact on Mars In January, scientists noticed that the InSight probe (a stationary seismic measurement lander launched in 2018) had registered numerous tremors at the end of December 2021.The months-long analysis by the team from NASA and...
The observatory was open to visitors on October 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to observe the partial solar eclipse. Our member Otmar Becker observed the solar eclipse from his home and shows...