Asiago Astrophysical Observatory
The Asiago Astrophysical Observatory, designed by architect Daniele Calabi, was inaugurated in 1942 together with what at the time was the largest telescope in Europe, dedicated to Galileo.
Today the observatory is the campus of scientific research of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua and INAF, and the "Galileo" telescope is used for scientific purposes, for the monitoring of transient phenomena in stellar objects, and for educational purposes, for the night laboratory exercises of Unipd students of the degree courses in astronomy, mathematics, physics, natural sciences and geological sciences.
You can visit the Unipd campus of Asiago thanks to the numerous initiatives dedicated to the public that allow you to make telescope observations, follow seminars, for girls and boys, have fun building astrorockets or playing astrotombola. You can also visit the Museum of Scientific Instruments, which collects the instrumentation used by scholars since the 1930s.
