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More than 100 visitors want to know the event of the century at the public observatory Langwedel
The public observatory was well attended on Friday. Here, they wanted to observe the total lunar eclipse together. – Photo: Hustedt
LANGWEDEL – A special summer night under the starry sky, a hundred people were waiting on the roof of the Goldbach High School on Friday night, where the Volkswarte Langwedel still has his home. Peter Kreuzberg of the club's public observatory explained in detail the expected total lunar eclipse. Several members of the badociation had installed telescopes on the school building to better observe the sky.
At 9 pm, the platform was already full and each visitor was looking for a favorable view. Peter Kreuzberg filled the waiting period until the sunrise with information on the observatory opened in 1986 by Heinz and Hanna Struckmann as well as Andreas Kaczmarek, still president, and Günther Blümel
Four rolling roofs welcome the instruments on the roof of the school. Andreas Vogel, vice president of the badociation and director of the Olbers-Planetarium Bremen, had already seen many visitors on television before. As reported, the observatory recedes with the demolition of the old school building, the foundation of the ring for the new observatory behind the new building of the school has already been asked.
Asked by a young visitor, when the next lunar eclipse can be observed in Langwedel Peter Kreuzberg: "But we must live healthy, because it is only 105 years old, June 9, 2123."
It was 9:30 pm and the moon should have risen. Excited, all visitors looked in the Southeast direction, behind him in a tree space he should actually appear so slowly. But also looking with binoculars did not help, the moon was initially hidden behind the haze. So the telescopes were aligned with Saturn and Jupiter, Jupiter, the three moons were clearly visible.
Around 10 pm, came from the southwest, a brighter spot. If the moon could not be seen, everyone looked up, as the International Space Station (ISS) crossed the school and soon disappeared to the northeast. The space station runs 400 kilometers in 92 minutes around the globe. And when the sky was really dark, it was still seen, the moon initially very pale. It was visible above the treetops. Slowly he climbed higher and went deeper into the shadow of the earth. It became red-orange and was now visible to the naked eye. The climax of the lunar eclipse was finally reached at 22:22. J hu
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