Her faculty building does have a rooftop observatory in its charming setting adjacent to the Ratthäus in the quaint University town of Dummköpf in Rural Saxony.
However, the antique 17cm Mürz refractor has been put into storage, as over the past century, the usual 99% cloud-cover of central Saxony has been augmented by smog from Eastern Europe, acid rain from Scandinavia, and a great outpouring of smoke from the Faculty of Agriculture students studying the properties of certain substances.
In consequence, no star has been observed from Dummköpf since the historic sighting of Sirius for a few minutes during the celebrations of the Kaiser's birthday in 1903.
Professor Vögtswagen prepared for her trip by negotiating a lease of Emmanuel Snodgrass' turbo-charged ride on lawnmower, and of Richmond Windsor's latest 10cm f/105 Schiefspiegler, complete with a full battery of his wide-field Huygens-Erfle eyepieces.
She had received exciting reports from German amateurs who had actually observed M 13 from Namibia and she wished to make comparative observations of M 13, 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri in order to test a new theory.
These amateurs considered there was evidence that M 13 belonged to a new and unique class - the "Open Globular Cluster", and contend that the lack of stars in its central regions stem from a higher than average number of supernova explosions, with the remnant black holes emitting no light, and with the succession of shock waves emanating from the core widening the orbits of adjacent stars, leaving a black void thinly sprinkled with stars.
It is estimated that within 2.2 million light years, M 13 will achieve full open cluster status. Until then, it will remain in its unique class - the Open Globular Cluster.
US astronomy magazines, who have just published their 7,000th amateur photo of M13 are not amused.
On coming to Australia last November, the Professor was struck temporarily snow-blind by the combined impact of the LMC, SMC, and Southern Milky Way.
She has been wearing her Raybans 24-hours a day since then, in order to affect a recovery by the 2003 SPSP at Wiruna, when Scorpio and Carina will combine to severely test her retinae.