Can you visit Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory? Yes
Day tours and visitor observation sessions (Moon, planets) via tour operators.
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 Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory observes
The list does not describe the instruments at Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory yet; the official site has them.
How dark the sky is at Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory
Abastumani Astrophysical 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.
Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory among the observatories of Georgia
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 Georgia for the full list.
The coordinates on this page point to Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Mount Kanobili (MPC code 119): 41.754°N, 42.820°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 Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory
Nearest dark sky places
| Place | Where | Bortle | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hatila Valley National Park | Artvin, Turkey | 3 | 110 km (69 mi) |
| Kackar Mountains | Ayder, Turkey | 3 | 170 km (106 mi) |
| Mount Aragats | Byurakan, Armenia | 2 | 182 km (113 mi) |
| Lake Sevan | Sevan, Armenia | 3 | 226 km (141 mi) |
| Nizhny Arkhyz | Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia | 2 | 239 km (148 mi) |
| Palandoken | Erzurum, Turkey | 5 | 247 km (153 mi) |
Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory record
Every value in the observatories dataset for Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory
| ID | 575 |
|---|---|
| Name | Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory |
| City | Abastumani |
| State | Samtskhe-Javakheti |
| Country | Georgia |
| Continent | Asia |
| Subcontinent | Central Asia |
| Web | https://observatory.iliauni.edu.ge/ |
| Public | y |
| Elevation | 1700 |
| Lat | 41.75362 |
| Lon | 42.82000 |
| LatLonSpot | Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Mount Kanobili (MPC code 119) |
| Status | Active |
| StatusNote | Georgian National Astrophysical Observatory, Ilia State University |
| PublicNote | Day tours and visitor observation sessions (Moon, planets) via tour operators |
| Sources | https://georgia.to/places-to-go/samtskhe-javakheti/abastumani/abastumani-astrophysical-observatory/; https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html |
From the site's observatories dataset (observatoriesglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.