View of a telescope within a dome, from below.

Sydney Observatory Photofields Tours

Name: Sydney Observatory Photofields Tours
Start: 2024-12-06T01:30:00.000Z
End: 2024-12-07T11:00:00.000Z
Location: Sydney Observatory

Ended 7 Dec 2024

12.30–10pm

Free

FreeBookings essential

Sydney Observatory

On Gadigal Land

Sydney Observatory

1003 Upper Fort St, Millers Point NSW 2000

Notes

Viewing of astronomical objects depends on cloud cover, time of day and date.

Tours include more than a hundred stairs. Some areas are inaccessible to less mobile visitors and wheelchair users. For accessibility queries, please contact us.

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Special-edition free tours of Sydney Observatory will explore the site's history of photographic observation. Learn how photography played a key role in capturing the 1874 transit of Venue, measuring the stars and studying Sydney’s weather. These tours will offer a unique opportunity to look through Australia’s oldest working telescope, 150 years after its first use.