The staff of the observatory has been involved in the organisation and execution of several conferences:
- Writing the heavens – Celestial Observation in Literature from 800 to 1800, 2021
- Large surveys with small telescopes: Past, Present, and Future (Astroplate III), 2019
- FRanconian Astronomy Neighborhood Collaboration Incentive (FRANCI), 2019
- Interstellar Medium Workshop, 2018
- FRanconian Astronomy Neighborhood Collaboration Incentive (FRANCI), 2017
- Stars on the run, 2016
- The Variable Sky: from Tiny Variations to Big Explosions – Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, 2014
- Astronomie in Franken – Von den Anfängen bis zur modernen Astrophysik, 2014, Proceedings available
- FRanconian Astronomy Neighborhood Collaboration Incentive (FRANCI), 2014
- Black Hole Universe, 2012
- Planetary Systems beyond the main sequence, 2010
Proceedings: Sonja Schuh ,Horst Drechsel, Ulrich Heber, AIP Conference Proceedings 1331, 2011, Melville, New York - Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, 2007
Proceedings: Heber, Ulrich; Jeffery, C. Simon; Napiwotzki, Ralf, 2008, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference series 392