NOEMA at 2,552 m (8,370 ft).

Research observatory · Montmaur, Hautes-Alpes, France

NOEMA

NOEMA is a research observatory in Montmaur, Hautes-Alpes, France.

NOEMA in brief

Open to the public
No regular public access
Elevation
2,552 m (8,370 ft)
Bortle class
Not yet rated
Observes in
Millimeter

Official site

Can you visit NOEMA? No regular public access

High-mountain research site, no public access.

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

Telescopes at NOEMA: millimeter

part of Event Horizon Telescope.

How dark the sky is at NOEMA

NOEMA 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.

NOEMA among the observatories of France

Alpes Azur Mercantour International Dark Sky Reserve Cevennes National Park Vercors Regional Natural Park Millevaches Regional Natural Park Perigord-Limousin Regional Natural Park Pic du Midi International Dark Sky Reserve Vezere Valley Regional Natural Park of Morvan Landes de Gascogne Regional Natural Park Meudon Observatory (Paris Observatory) Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees Paris Observatory Pises Observatory Besancon Observatory Bordeaux Observatory Camille Flammarion Observatory Cote d'Azur Observatory Lyon Observatory Nancay Radio Telescope Nice Observatory Saint-Veran Observatory (Paul Felenbok Observatory) Pic du Midi Observatory Strasbourg Observatory Toulouse Observatory Astronomy Tower of the Sorbonne NOEMA Montmaur, Hautes-Alpes, France NOEMA Montmaur, Hautes-Alpes, France
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 France for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to NOEMA array, Plateau de Bure (Wikipedia): 44.634°N, 5.908°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 NOEMA

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Vercors Regional Natural ParkVassieux-en-Vercors, France451 km (32 mi)
Alpes Azur Mercantour International Dark Sky ReserveSaint-Etienne-de-Tinee, France379 km (49 mi)
Saint-Barthelemy ValleyNus, Italy4178 km (110 mi)
Cevennes National ParkL'Esperou, France3193 km (120 mi)
Rhone ValleySt-Luc, Switzerland4222 km (138 mi)
Jungfrau-AletschBettmeralp, Switzerland4258 km (160 mi)

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

NOEMA record

Every value in the observatories dataset for NOEMA
ID609
NameNOEMA
CityMontmaur
StateHautes-Alpes
CountryFrance
ContinentEurope
Webhttps://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-235-3-235-0-0-0.html
Publicn
Telescopepart of Event Horizon Telescope
Type1millimeter
Elevation2552
Lat44.63389
Lon5.90792
LatLonSpotNOEMA array, Plateau de Bure (Wikipedia)
StatusActive
StatusNoteIRAM Northern Extended Millimeter Array, successor to Plateau de Bure Interferometer
PublicNoteHigh-mountain research site, no public access
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Extended_Millimeter_Array

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