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Description: The Observatory is near Romana Square, not far away from Victoria Square in Bucharest

VISITING TAXES AND FEES

   Keep in mind that you can see the solar and night skies only on clean skies. Vasile Urseanu Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest is opened from Tuesday to Saturday and is closed Sunday and Monday. You can visit it from 2 PM to 10 PM. A ticket is 14 RON for each person the entrance fee. You can buy tickets at the Astronomical Observatory or on Booktes.  Don’t lose your ticket. If you want to make professional movie inside, it is 61 RON per square meter per hous. These fees will be paid before your arrival. 

VASILE URSEANU OBSERVATORY BUCHAREST

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Description: It is 14 RON a ticket for visiting the Astronomical Observatory. Special entrance fees are paid for making pictures and movies

TIMETABLE FOR ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS

    For evening observations, you will have to come on Tuesday, on Friday and on Saturday from 7 to 9 PM. If you want to see the sun, you should know that these observations are made on Wednesday, from 11 AM to 4 PM. You can come on Tuesday, from 2 to 5 PM, on Friday, from 2 to 5 PM. There is also place on Sunday, from 11 AM to 1 PM. 

WHAT PLANETS YOU CAN SEE AND WHEN FROM BUCHAREST ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY

• Venus is no longer visible since March 15, in 2025. Yet you can see it in 2026 from April to July. In 2027 you can take a close look to Venus from October to December. 
• Mars is visible from the Observatory until July in 2025. You can not see the red planet in 2026. In 2027, Mars is again visible from February to December. 
• Jupiter is available for visitor in 2025 until May and, again in December. In 2026, you can see it from January to June and in 2027, from January to July. 
• Saturn is visible in 2025 only from September to December. In 2026, you can see this huge planet in January and February and, again, from September to December. In 2027, Saturn is available from the Observatory of Bucharest from January to March and from October to December. 

BUCHAREST ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY TIMETABLE

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Description: There are daytime telescope observations and observations of the sky at night. See the timetable above

WHAT CAN YOU SEE

    From the Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest, you can see stars, planets, double stars, stellar waves. Don’t forget, for more than 20 visitors, you need to make reservations. 

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Description: You need no reservation to visit the Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest. Yet, for more than 20 people, you should call before you come

WHO WAS VASILE URSEANU?

   The Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest is officially known as Admiral Vasile Urseanu Astronomical Observatory. It took his founder’s name. Vasile Urseanu was born in 1848. He dedicated his life to more hobbies but two of them will make history: the navy and the astronomy. He studied at the School of War in Bucharest, then learned more in Paris. In 1874 he returned to Romania and became the commander of the navy called Romania. During the Independence War, the future founder of the Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest, commanded an artillery battery and, in 1878, became the chief of all navy artillery.

WHY THE OBSERVATORY IN BUCHAREST TOOK VASILE URSEANU NAME?

Mircea cel Batran was the first Romanian school-navy ever built. Vasile Urseanu commanded this ship. The first complete Romanian fleet came into being in 1890, also under Urseanu’s command. He was the captain of the fleet pearl, the cruiser ,,Elisabeth’’ which had missions in the Mediterranean Sea. The Atlantic Ocean, The Northern Sea and also in the Baltic Sea met this cruiser. It was the longest mission a Romanian battleship had ever accomplished. During this mission, commander Vasile Urseanu had the time to watch the sky and see the stars movement. He had this passion since early childhood. So, he built a boat-style house in Bucharest. If you are interested in technology, don’t miss the Technic Museum in Bucharest.

BUCHAREST ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY BUILDING HISTORY

In the top of the building, he also arranged an astronomical observatory in 1910. The observatory had the third most powerful telescope in the country, a Zeiss. The admiral died in 1926. His widow donated the house to the Town Hall in 1933. She asked the authorities, following Vasile Urseanu’s will, the observatory to function inside, in his memory. The telescope was functional again on the dome of the house in 1950. Communist authorities opened the observatory again for public in the same year. In the 60s the building housed The Experimental Sciences Museum. The old telescope left place to a more advanced one, the most powerful in the country.

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Description: The Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest is officially known as Admiral Vasile Urseanu Astronomical Observatory, after his founder’s name

    In 1990, the observatory will be the headquarters of the Romanian Space Agency. The building became again, in 1996, the Municipality Astronomical Observatory. Due to a private donation, the Observatory had a new telescope in 2008. It is a 30 cm in diameter MEADE LX200R. It is able to highly record solar flares and many other things in the universe. Thus, in 2009, thousands of people could attend a virtual exhibition entitled A journey through the Universe. The Astronomical Observatory Bucharest can be a part of your trip around Roman Square. Here you can also visit Severeanu Museum, the Archaeology Museum of Bucharest. Not far awary you can see the GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUCHAREST, The PEASANT MUSEUM IN BUCHAREST . Opposite to the headquarters of the Romanian Government, it is The NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM GRIGORE ANTIPA IN BUCHAREST. If you visit Bucharest with children, do not miss the TOYS MUSEUM IN BUCHAREST! 

VISIT THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY BUCHAREST AREA

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