Hubert Zitt is a professor at Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He is widely known for his fascinating lectures on Star Wars, Star Trek and other science fiction.
He saw an opportunity to put his mark in the geekiest way possible. Together with his father-in-law Horst Helle, the master painter Klaus Ruffing, and several helpful students, he transformed the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association into a giant replica of R2-D2, a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise.
The sci-fi professor completed the Star Wars makeover in September 2018 but people around the world have just started to take notice.
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill recently tweeted about it with caption, “R2-D2 Observatory Transformed Germans Into Giant Nerds.”
Zitt and his team aren’t the first ones to create a Star Wars design. In 2010, Minnesota’s Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College was also transformed into an R2-D2.
