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Alexander Scholz

6. Februar 2026: The silence of the dome

Guest post by Aleks Scholz, Observatory Director In the summer of 2013, when I started my job at the observatory, the Twin Dome was embedded in an SEP field. In the words of Douglas Adams, an SEP field “relies on…

The beginning

From 1983 to 1992 the Twin Dome at the Observatory was the home of the Twin Photometric Telescope – two 40 cm telescopes on a mount, a telescope tailor-made for high-precision photometric monitoring with one telescope…