School observatory

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General view of the Robert Mayer Observatory in Heilbronn
The Steinheil six-inch refractor of the Karlsruhe observatory , here still in the dome of the state observatory on the Königstuhl

A school observatory is an observatory that is built on a school building or in a school garden and is used to deepen scientific or technical lessons. Today, however, many of these observatories are no longer supervised by a teacher, but by a local astro association - and then also operated as a public observatory .

Many well-equipped school observatories can be found in the area of ​​the former GDR . Because in East Germany emphasis was placed on having astronomy as a separate school subject . Some of these schools cooperated with Russian partners in the field of space research .

Among the most important of these observatories are

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