MARS - Der geheimnisvolle Wüstenplanet

In the organizer's words:

It's back - after two years, the red planet is returning to the evening sky over Cologne! Man's relationship with the planet Mars has always been a special one. In ancient times, its changes in brightness unsettled priests and astrologers. After the invention of the telescope, its once again varied appearance more than once gave rise to puzzles and provided the new guild of science fiction writers with material for their fantasies. Space probes were supposed to provide hard facts, but the results of each mission raise almost as many questions as they answer. Was this desert planet once more hospitable to life than it is today? Was the arduous journey to Mars worth it for mankind's first interplanetary astronauts?

Speaker: Rudolf Tonn / Star guide: Karsten Kopp

With ticket: Lecture
With combined ticket: Lecture and subsequent sky observation with the telescope, or visit to the observatory if the sky is cloudy.

Speaker: Rudolf Tonn

Further events of the location: https: //rausgegangen.de/locations/volkssternwarte-koln/

Homepage of the location: https://www.volkssternwartekoeln.de

Price information:

Tickets will be available online from 01.12.2024 in the observatory's webshop. (No Box Office!)