Boyden Observatory

Can you visit Boyden Observatory? Yes

Monthly public open evenings with talk and telescope viewing, tickets via Computicket; school visits.

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 Boyden Observatory observes

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

How dark the sky is at Boyden Observatory

Boyden 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.

Boyden Observatory among the observatories of South Africa

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 South Africa for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Boyden Observatory, Maselspoort (Wikipedia): 29.039°S, 26.405°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 Boyden Observatory

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near Boyden Observatory.

Boyden Observatory record

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