Merz Telescope
This telescope, manufactured by the famous Merz firm of Munich, has an aperture of 10 cm and a...
American Bridge
By the early 1900s there were four telescope domes on the walls of the Vatican: The equatorial...
Heliograph
In 1893 the Specola obtained a heliograph, a telescope especially designed for photographing the...
Visuale Telescope
A “Visuale” Telescope is a large refractor designed to be used by an astronomer looking “visually”...
Cart du Ciel Telescope
The Vatican Observatory was one of eighteen observatories collaborating on the project, organized...
Vatican Aerial View
St. Peter’s and the Vatican from the air, circa 1925. The Via della Conciliazione, the wide road...
Tower of the Winds
This tower was built between 1578 and 1580 to demonstrate the astronomical motivation for the...
01 - American Bridge
02 - Carte du Ciel Display Case 1
03 - Carte du Ciel Display Case 2
04 - Carte du Ciel Telescope
05 - Denza
06 - Gregorio XIII
07 - Hagen
08 - Heliograph
09 - Lais
10 - Leone XIII
11 - Meridian Circle Telescope
12 - Merz Telescope
13 - Pio X
15 - Roman College
16 - Secchi
17 - Sister Computers
18 - Tower of Winds
19 - Vatican Aerial View
