Medicina Radio Observatory.

Public observatory · Medicina, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Medicina Radio Observatory

Medicina Radio Observatory is a public observatory in Medicina, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is open to the public.

Medicina Radio Observatory in brief

Open to the public
Yes
Bortle class
Not yet rated
Observes in
Radio

Official site

Can you visit Medicina Radio Observatory? Yes

Marcello Ceccarelli visitor center: guided visits on scheduled Sundays and by booking.

A public night at an observatory usually starts at dusk with a short talk, then a line at the eyepiece of the main telescope for the Moon, a planet or a bright cluster, with volunteers' smaller telescopes set up outside. Dress for the night air even in summer: domes are not heated, so the telescope stays at outside temperature. Many nights sell out or cancel for clouds, so check the observatory's site on the day.

What Medicina Radio Observatory observes: radio

The list does not describe the instruments at Medicina Radio Observatory yet; the official site has them.

How dark the sky is at Medicina Radio Observatory

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

1 mag 8.0 21.99+ 2 mag 7.5 21.89+ 3 mag 7.0 21.69+ 4 mag 6.5 20.49+ 5 mag 6.0 19.50+ 6 mag 5.5 18.94+ 7 mag 5.0 18.38+ 8 mag 4.5 18.00+ 9 mag 4.0
The Bortle scale. Each panel shows the class number, the faintest star the naked eye reaches at the zenith, and the darkest-edge sky brightness reading of that class in mag/arcsec².

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.

Medicina Radio Observatory among the observatories of Italy

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Dark sky place Research or private observatory Observatory open to the public

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 Italy for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Medicina Radio Observatory (RadioNet): 44.521°N, 11.647°E.

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 Medicina Radio Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Villa DamaGubbio, Italy5150 km (93 mi)
Castello di PetroiaGubbio, Italy4161 km (100 mi)
Agriturismo San Lorenzo della RabattaPerugia, Italy4162 km (100 mi)
Poggio alla RoccaCivitella Paganico, Italy4165 km (103 mi)
Capo di Lago di Darfo Boario TermeDarfo Boario Terme, Italy5191 km (119 mi)
Castello di TitignanoOrvieto, Italy4203 km (126 mi)

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

  • Pistoia Mountains Astronomical ObservatorySan Marcello Piteglio, Tuscany, Italy, 84 km (52 mi). Public observing evenings and planetarium shows on scheduled dates, mostly summer; listed in local event calendars
  • Arcetri ObservatoryFlorence, Tuscany, Italy, 91 km (57 mi). Open Observatory guided night visits once a month at first-quarter Moon, by email booking; summer night events
  • Chianti Polifunctional ObservatoryBarberino Tavarnelle, Tuscany, Italy, 115 km (72 mi). Evening public tours once a month plus summer events and exhibitions
  • European Gravitational ObservatoryCascina, Tuscany, Italy, 135 km (84 mi). Free guided visits to Virgo on scheduled days by booking; open days
  • Cima Ekar Observing StationAsiago, Veneto, Italy, 148 km (92 mi). Guided evening visits to the Copernico telescope on scheduled summer dates; booking required
  • Asiago ObservatoryAsiago, Veneto, Italy, 150 km (93 mi). Guided visits and summer evening events by booking through the University of Padua museums

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

Medicina Radio Observatory record

Every value in the observatories dataset for Medicina Radio Observatory
ID252
NameMedicina Radio Observatory
AddressVia Fiorentina 3513, Villafontana, Medicina
CityMedicina
StateEmilia-Romagna
CountryItaly
ContinentEurope
Webhttps://www.med.ira.inaf.it/
Publicy
Type1radio
Lat44.52083
Lon11.64694
LatLonSpotMedicina Radio Observatory (RadioNet)
StatusActive
StatusNoteINAF radio station with 32-m dish and Northern Cross array
PublicNoteMarcello Ceccarelli visitor center: guided visits on scheduled Sundays and by booking
Sourceshttp://www.med.ira.inaf.it/index.html https://radionet-eu.org/medicina-telescope.html

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