About this gallery

Welcome to the OST Gallery, which showcases of images of the deep-sky and solar system objects captured with telescopes at the observatory of the University of Potsdam. These images were taken by students and/or staff from the Astrophysics Department, either as part of the astrophysics lab courses or in their spare time.

What you will find here

• Images organised by object type: galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, the solar system, and more
• Observation details including filters, exposure notes, and the observer who took each image
• Larger views and background information for many captures

The observatory

Detailed information about our telescope and instruments can be found in the wiki.

License & credits

Unless noted otherwise on an individual image page, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

You are free to share and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, provided you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same license.

Individual images may carry additional credit or license information on their detail page (fields CREDIT and LICENSE in the image metadata).

Contact

For questions about the observatory or these images, please contact the observatory team through: ost-observatory (at) astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de .