Surprising Springer Snow...

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It is not usual but yesterday (October, 14th) we got snow at the observatory, despite being in spring time. This weather event was powerful ...

September, 27th, a fine lunar eclipse

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While in San Pedro de Atacama for delivering some astronomy classes to the guides of one of the many public observatories settled there, we ...

Astrophotography at Pangue :
a hole in the clouds

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August is not the better time for stargazing in Chile as this is the heart of the local winter, however in one of the rare clear nights we m...

A faint Supernova visible in the Southern Sky

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On a clear, moonless night, we succeded to observe the supernova SN2015F recently discovered in NGC2442, a nice barred-spiral galaxy standi...

Craig Weatherwax, "the Boss" at OPT, visited us !

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"Oceanside Photo & Telescope" (OPT) is a major retailer of astronomical equipment based in California. We at "Astronomi...

February the 8th, one more year...

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Every year at the same date the Sun sets exactly behind the domes of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) as seen from the...

January 26th : a rare flyby witnessed

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On that evening a mid-size asteroid labelled 2004 BL86 approached at some 1,200,000 km from Earth, that is roughly 3 times the distance to ...

Planets at Dusk

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When arriving at the observatory our visitors are currently granted with a nice view of planets Venus and Mercury, shining together after su...

2015 welcomes stargazers with a nice comet

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We said it before and we say it again : bright, naked-eye comets are quite rare. That's why we particularely appreciate the visit of the...

December 30th : Unidentifyed Flying Object witnessed from the observatory

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...although it didn't remain unidentifyed for long... On that evening our group enjoyed viewing this bright, strange artifact moving re...

Monster Dark Spot Shows Up on the Sun Disc

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October, 21st : as it already happened some months ago, a huge dark spot appeared on the surface of the Sun, although this time we better ...

Astro Vistas in Paris

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Last season our french astronomer Eric was at home again, and despite the dreadful weather conditions that characterized the local summertim...

Un Día con Camille Flammarion

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Une Journée avec Camille Flammarion Foto superior: el Observatorio de Juvisy, visto desde su parque. Ci-dessus : l'Observatoire de J...

Observaciones del Sol como nunca antes !!...

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En este mes de Junio de 2014 se inició en Vicuña (Región de Coquimbo) el Gran Observatorio Solar del Chile (GOSCH), una nueva oferta en ast...

Comet Jacques (C/2014_E2), brightest of the year (so far...)

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Bright, spectacular comets are quite rare, while faint, little fuzzies are rather common. The current comet Jacques is just intermediate, ba...

The 8th day, never disappointing...

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We do not perform any Astro Tour on the "big Moon nights" but, on the last evening before closing, the Moon uses to offer stunning...

Two Alignements in a Row :
April 17th, the Moon occults Saturn.

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Less than 48 hours after the total eclipse of the Moon, another nice event occured in our skies, an occultation of Saturn by the Moon. Such ...

Two Alignements in a Row :
April 15th, a Total Eclipse of the Moon.

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Last night, we could witness in perfect conditions a complete Total Eclipse of the Moon, from 03H00 to 05H00 (local time). This was a clea...