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Domes on the Papal Palace

With the move to Castel Gandolfo, two new Zeiss telescopes were constructed on the roof of the...

The “Visual” telescope is a Zeiss 40 cm refractor; this design allowed for high magnification of...

The principal instrument of the observatory, the Zeiss Double Astrograph, was located in a...

In the mid 1950s, observatory director Fr. Daniel O’Connell SJ and Br. Karl Treusch SJ (see photo...

In 1957 the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Specola Vaticana co-sponsored a workshop on the...

The building we are in was constructed in two stages. The far dome in this image dates from 1942;...

By the 1930s, the Carte du Ciel program had already been underway for forty years, and yet a...

In 1949, Stein proposed that the Specola purchase a second telescope of the modern Schmidt design....

The meteorite collection at the Vatican exists today due to the efforts of Adrien-Charles, Marquis...

The spectral lines of pure iron, shown above, give an idea of the complexity of the task of...

The spectra laboratory was located in a large room on the first floor of the Papal Summer Palace,...

This device, manufactured by Zeiss, was used to make the precise measurement of the positions of...

In 1939, Gatterer and his colleagues founded a journal, Spectrochimical Acta, to report their work...

With the move to Castel Gandolfo, two new Zeiss telescopes were constructed on the roof of the...

The “Visual” telescope is a Zeiss 40 cm refractor; this design allowed for high magnification of...

The principal instrument of the observatory, the Zeiss Double Astrograph, was located in a...

In the mid 1950s, observatory director Fr. Daniel O’Connell SJ and Br. Karl Treusch SJ (see photo...

In 1957 the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Specola Vaticana co-sponsored a workshop on the...