Photoalbum
Starparty Drenthe Spring 2008In the spring of 2008 a couple of astronomy enthousiasts went to a small village in the northern Dutch province Drenthe for a starparty. The sky was not clear every evening, but still we had lots of fun. | |
Starparty Courtaoult 2007In september 2007, we met a number travelled to the small village Courtaoult, near Ervy-le-Chatel and the famous town of Chablis in the north of France for a starparty weekend. It was largely clear that weekend with nice warm late summer weather. The village Courtaoult knows no streetlamps and it was a beautiful dark location for observation and photography. | |
Photoalbum from Jan AdelaarJan Adelaar is also a member of our astrophotography workgroup. Besides that he is also a member of the national moons-and-planets workgroup. Taking pictures of moons and planets, especially of Mars, is the specialty of Jan. | |
Pictures taken by Bart VeltmanBart Veltman is a member of our astrophotography workgroup. Recently he has been taking pictures with his new ATIK CCD camera. See here some of the results. | |
Picture album of Edwin van der SijdeEdwin is a member of the astrophotography workgroup of Corona Borealis. Some of his latest pictures taken can be seen here in this picture album. | |
Sushi workshop november 2007Instead of focussing our interest on astronomy we now concentrated on food this time. Harmen (brother of Sjoerd Jan) and Lisette gave a Sushi workshop at the observatory of Corona Borealis. | |
Starparty Courtaoult 2008Again we organized a starparty in the North of France in the small village of Courtaoult. Also this year we had a clear sky and lots of fun. See the pictures taken during the starparty. | |
Pictures of building project of our new observatoryOur new observatory is projected at De Breuly. De Breuly was until recent the local swimming pool of the city of Zevenaar. The city counsil closed the swimmingpool and offered us part of the location as a good and dark location for our observatory. | |
Openingsparty of International Year of Astronomy 2009On the 2nd of January Sjoerd Jan and Saskia ter Welle opened up their house for a small party to celebrate the start of the International year of Astronomy 2009. During the party the renewed clubmagazine SKY HIGH was presented as well as a presentation was shown with Google Sketchup visualizations of the new observatory that we hope to build this year. | |
Picture impression of new clubhouseWe plan to build a new clubhouse and 2 observatories in 2009. These pictures are impressions of how the new clubhouse will look like on the inside. | |
National star view dayDuring the National stars-on-view day Friday, April 3, 2009 our telescopes were well used. It was a clear night. Young and old watched with astonishment the beautiful moon craters and the rings of Saturn. Pictures taken by Stephan Werz. | |
Starting activities building new observatoryOn Saturday the 2nd of May 2009 we started the first actual preparation activities for building our new observatory on the former open-air swimming pool grounds called De Breuly. | |
25-year anniversary of Goch-Kleve observatoryThe observatory in Goch-Kleve in Germany is in existence for 25 years! | |
Visit to Toldijk observatoryOn the 22nd of May we visited the observatory in Toldijk together with a group of enthousiastic members of the German observatory in Goch-Kleve. | |
Starparty Courtaoult 2009Again we organized a starparty in the North of France in the small village of Courtaoult. | |
Newyear-reception party January 17, 2010We opened the new year with a reception party in our new observatory. The building process was not completed yet, but we still enjoyed our time together. | |
Openingsceremony of our new observatoryFinally! Our new observatory is there. Check out the pictures taken during the openings-weekend. |


