From Barcelona to Mars, via the Moon

Would you like to sip a glass of cava while contemplating the Barcelona skyline at dusk? What if you could also observe the Orion nebula through an impressive telescope located in the fourth oldest observatory in the world that is still in operation? All this and much more is what the guided nighttime visits to the Fabra Observatory offer, on weekends from 23 October 2021 to 29 May 2022.

Carried out by the team of experts working at the Observatory, these visits take place every Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the indicated period and are conducted in three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English. During the 90-minute tour, visitors get to know the observatory museum, visit the different modernist rooms of the building, enjoy a video on astronomy, observe an object in the sky through the centre's famous telescope, visit the exterior of its dome and have a glass of cava or of juice while contemplating the city from the heights.

For this season, the centre has a very full calendar of observations. Until the end of January, you can observe the moon, the only natural satellite of the Earth, and Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system and the third brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. Then, until the end of the season, visitors have the opportunity to enjoy Mars and its characteristic reddish hues, Alcyone, a star system in the constellation Taurus, the Orion nebula, located in the south of Orion's belt and one of the brightest in existence, the Beehive Cluster, an open cluster of the Milky Way in the constellation Cancer, and 24 Coma, a triple star system in the northern constellation Coma Berenices.

More information, bookings and observing calendar at this link.