On the occasion of the Swiss Astronomy Day, the Geneva Astronomical Society (SAG) and the Geneva Museum of the History of Science are organizing an afternoon and an evening of vintage astronomical observation using old telescopes and scopes preserved in the Museum's collections.

PROGRAM

5:30-10:00 pm
Astronomical observations
Observation of the day and night sky with amateur astronomers (weather permitting).
Astronomical Society of Geneva

19h00
The instruments of the first astronomical observatory of Geneva
In 1772, the first observatory built at the southern end of the Bastion de St-Antoine had as main mission to give the time to the city's watchmakers.
Guided tour, Stéphane Fischer, Museum of the History of Science.

All public
Free admission

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