Who we are and what we do ...
The Volkssternwarte Paderborn e.V. (Paderborn Public Astronomical Observatory)
is a non-profit club with more than 140 members of all ages with many different
professions. The club's aim is to give hobby astronomers and interested laymen
views into the phantastic world of astronomy and space flight and to make
the latest findings of science comprehensible to them.
The Observatory
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Diameter of dome: 4.50 meters (1 ft. = 0.30 meters)
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Telescopes / Accessories: (1" = 25.4 mm)
Newtonian Reflector 350/1600 mm
Schaer Refractor 150/3000 mm
Schiefspiegler Reflector 125/3500 mm
Refractor 102/1500 mm
H-Alpha Filter, Photometer, ...
Computer Control
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DCF-77 atomic clock receiver
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3-meter parabolic areal
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Computer center, technics room, photo laboratory, library, ...
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Headquarters of the international sunspot observation programme
INTER-SOL
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Member of the German "Vereinigung der Sternfreunde e.V."
(VdS)
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Member of the Swiss "Schweizerische Astronomische Gesellschaft" (SAG)
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Project "A Planetarium for Paderborn"
For our visitors we offer ...
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Public observatory tours with celestial observations
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Regular lectures and classes
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Special events for groups (max. 60 persons)
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Advice on telescope buying
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Help with astronomy-related problems
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Special services (e.g. collimation of optics, ...)
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Photo exhibition
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Interesting hours around astronomy ...
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