Address: Gabriela Mistral 260 | Vicuna, La Serena, Chile
Phone: 56 51 670330
What people are saying:
[Scenery] This tourist observatory is very suitable for tourists who only speak English because it has dedicated professional guides.
[Fun] I have visited it many times with friends from abroad. Very affordable price.
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Interesting experience to use professional telescopes yourself
Well. First: you have to book a tour in the office in town (Vicuña), not only, or at the observatory itself. Then there are two tour options: 20:30 or 23. We took the 20:30 on a Sunday. Again we got ...
This place is amazing. I did the English version of the tour and the guide was brilliant, so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. I really recommend this. The starscape is awesome. They also make a good co...
Excellent tour done by Emilio. We were 5 Brits (me & my friend) plus three others on the English version. We all really enjoyed everything Emilio told us. He is very very knowledgeable. It was a great...
We saw the Milky Way with our naked eyes. The sky is so clear here. We also saw Jupiter & its moons, plus Saturn rings and several nebuli in the telescopes. So beautiful! The guide spoke excellent Eng...
Great opportunity to see celestial objects through a telescope
This tour is a great way to see the moon, planets, and stars through a telescope. Although it was a full moon when I went, and there were not many stars due to the brightness of the moon, it was still...
[Scenery] This tourist observatory is very suitable for tourists who only speak English because it has dedicated professional guides. [Fun] I have visited it many times with friends from abroad. Very affordable price.
The starry sky in the southern hemisphere seems to be different from the northern hemisphere.
In this observatory, we can see a very beautiful starry sky, an unprecedented universe, because of the geographical position, we can see a better sky from here
The feeling of looking at the observatory from a distance is not very big under the hillside. It’s not too far from the city, and there are paid telescopes to see the stars. Perhaps because of the low level of development in the southern hemisphere, the visual effect here is great, that is, the road conditions at night are drunk