Astronomy Paris 5th 75005

There are many tourists on the path of the nearby Pantheon to lift their eyes to the sky and to discover, rue Saint-Jacques, a strange tower of observation over a dome: This is the observatory of the Sorbonne, a building previously reserved for students who made their astronomy classes in the prestigious establishment. Today, the beautiful astronomical 153 mm diameter set under the dome, dating back to 1935, is managed by the Astronomical Society of France. Two evenings per week, depending on weather conditions, a small group of observers (5 to the maximum) can access this atypical place on the exclusive condition of reserved its place beforehand. Up there, apart from the fact that the bezel and its dome are beautiful, we discover another Paris from an exceptional and rare point of view. If we are lucky enough to have the moon or some planets on the night of his coming, their vision at the ocular, while Paris is crawling below the feet, is a magical experience to say the least. The return on the floor of cows is then an experiment… very land on earth.