Bordeaux Observatory

Can you visit Bordeaux Observatory? Historic site

Heritage Days visits.

For telescope views near Bordeaux Observatory, see the observatories open to the public and astronomy clubs nearby; clubs hold free public star parties.

What Bordeaux Observatory observes

The list does not describe the instruments at Bordeaux Observatory yet.

How dark the sky is at Bordeaux Observatory

Bordeaux Observatory has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Research telescopes are often sited on mountains above the haze, so the real sky can be darker than the map suggests.

Bordeaux Observatory among the observatories of France

Green dots are observatories open to the public, blue dots research or private sites, squares dark sky places; select one for its page. See Observatories in France for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Bordeaux Observatory, Floirac: 44.835°N, 0.526°W.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Open the larger map · Directions. Mountain observatory roads are often gated after dark; go only on a scheduled public night.

Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Bordeaux Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

Bordeaux Observatory record

From the site's observatories dataset (observatoriesglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.