Troodos Observatory

Can you visit Troodos Observatory? Yes

Night stargazing events with night-sky and solar telescopes and an outdoor observing platform.

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 Troodos Observatory observes

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

How dark the sky is at Troodos Observatory

Troodos 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.

Troodos Observatory among the observatories of Cyprus

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 Cyprus for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to village of Agridia (approximate; observatory site not geocoded): 34.929°N, 32.994°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 Troodos Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Kition Planetarium and ObservatoryLarnaca District, Cyprus, 57 km (36 mi). Regular public telescope evenings, planet and Moon nights, children's STEAM workshops

Troodos Observatory record

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