Sonneberg Observatory

Thuringia · Germany

Sonneberg Observatory, Germany
Photo: Störfix, CC BY-SA 3.0 de via Wikimedia Commons

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Perched on a hill above the toy-making town of Sonneberg, this observatory holds one of the world's largest photographic plate archives documenting the changing sky. It remains an active research and public-education site.

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