The Greifswald Observatory is the largest observatory in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Its founders are Andreas Mayer & Lambert Heinrich Röhl.
Since 1992, the association has been maintaining and modernizing the historic Carl Zeiss instrumentarium under the dome of the old Physics Institute, where a 40 cm reflecting telescope and a 20 cm refracting telescope are available. In 2001, the miniplanet 10114 (RZ 1992) is named "Greifswald" by its discoverers Lutz Schmadel and Freimut Börngen. With the Johannes Conrads Prize, the association aims to win the hearts and minds of young people for astronomy. Important historical observations: Venus transits in 1761 & 1769 and 2004 & 2012.