Dr. Hubert Zitt is a professor at Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences who just took his love of Star Wars to a new level in a way that has earned him fans from all over the globe.

Dr. Zitt is a tenured professor who specializes academically in electrotechnology, but he is also known as a speaker on the science fiction circuit who gives lectures on Star Trek and Star Wars all over the world.

Dr. Zitt first went viral with his “Christmas lecture” on Star Trek, and he was even given the opportunity to speak at FedCon, Europe’s most popular Science Fiction Convention. In addition, he wrote the preface to the book “Star Trek in Germany,” and he has hosted regular lectures about “The Physics of Star Trek” at The University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas over the years.

Though Dr. Zitt has accomplished quite a lot with his greatest accomplishment last year when he painted the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association to look like Star Wars character R2-D2. To make this happen, Dr. Zitt enlisted the help of his father-in-law, painter Klaus Ruffing, as well as his science-fiction loving students.

Photos of the observatory went viral and were brought to the attention of Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars films.

“R2-D2 Observatory Transformed Germans Into Giant Nerds,” Hamill tweeted, clearly getting a kick out of the observatory.