Malakoff Tower

Can you visit Malakoff Tower? Historic site

Cultural center with exhibitions and occasional astronomy workshops by Espaco Ciencia; free.

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

What Malakoff Tower observes

The list does not describe the instruments at Malakoff Tower yet.

How dark the sky is at Malakoff Tower

Malakoff Tower 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.

Malakoff Tower among the observatories of Brazil

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 Brazil for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Recife (approximate): 8.054°S, 34.881°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 Malakoff Tower

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

Malakoff Tower record

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