Early night tours

Nightly at 6:15pm

See Saturn and Venus setting in the Western constellations of Leo the Lion and Virgo the Goddess of Justice. The Southern Cross and other features of the clear cold winter skies are also visible during these early night sessions. Cost: $15 adult, $12 conc., $10 child, $45 family, Members: $13 adult, $10 conc., $8 child, $34 family. Bookings essential.

Late night tours

Nightly at 8.15pm

Few sights in the night sky match the beauty of the southern Milky Way’s objects like Omega Centauri and Eta Carinae. This month these objects plus others are perfectly placed high in the cold winter skies. Cost: $15 adult, $12 conc., $10 child, $45 family, Members: $13 adult, $10 conc., $8 child, $34 family. Bookings essential.

Twilight pizza nights

6, 8, 13 and 15 July, 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Special family nights featuring 3-D space adventures, telescope viewing and tasty pizza. If weather is overcast there will be a planetarium session and a star map creative workshop.  Cost: $30 adult, $27 conc., $25 child (4 years and over), $85 family. Members: $25 adult, $22 conc, $20 child, $72 family. Bookings essential.

DAY PROGRAMS

3-D Space Theatre, Telescope tours and Planetarium

Experience space like never before in the 3-D Space Theatre and hands-on astronomy as part of the telescope dome tours. In July the theme for the Planetarium sessions will be the Emu in the Sky featuring stories from the oldest star watchers on the planet, the Indigenous peoples of Australia.

11.00am – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Our Sun, what a Star.

12noon – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Bigger than big.

1.15pm – Planetarium session featuring Indigenous sky stories (weekdays only).

2.00pm – Planetarium session featuring Indigenous sky stories (Weekdays only).

2.30pm – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Our Sun, what a Star.

3.30pm – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the programs Bigger than big and Einstein’s Universe.

4.15pm – 3-D Space Theatre featuring the programs The Little Things and Bigger than big (double feature, no dome tour).

Cost per 3-D program: $7 adult, $5 children/conc, $20 family. Members free. No bookings required.

Eggonaut Splashdown Workshop

Wednesday 7 and Friday 16 July. 10:00am, 11:30am and 1:00pm.

Use our recycled materials to build a landing capsule for your Eggonaut to safely land in our simulated ocean. Those that survive the first attempt will be launched from the highest point of the Observatory 40m above sea level! Parents and carers welcome (one free adult per child). Suitable for 8 – 12 years.

Cost: $10 child, $8 Members. Bookings essential.

MadLab Parent-Child Electronics Workshop

Saturday 3 and10 July, 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Parents and kids can team up for this fun hands-on electronics workshop. Learn how to recognise different electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors and transistors), place these into printed circuit boards and solder each component onto the board. A tour of the 3-D Space Theatre and telescope dome will highlight applications of advanced electronics and computing. Suitable for ages 10 – 15.

Cost: $40 per team of two, $32 for members. Bookings essential.

The Blue Planet with Manly Ocean World

Friday 9 July, 10.00am – 1.00pm

Searching for water is one of the most exciting aspects of modern astronomy. The Jovian moons of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto all have water deep under their icy surfaces but do they have life like our oceans? Experience the diversity of Earth’s oceans with Manly Ocean World’s touch pool activities and be inspired to draw or colour-in your own water and sky picture. Ages 3 and over.

Cost $10 per child, accompanying adults free. No bookings required.

Solar System model-making

Daily, between 10:00am and 4:00pm

Make a mobile of the Solar System to take home and string together. It even includes the dwarf planet Pluto! Free with any 3-D Space Theatre ticket. Suitable for 4 – 7 years.

Send us your sky and weather pictures

Send us your images of the sea and sky and we will load them onto a slide show to be shown at the Observatory everyday during the holidays. Visit our website for details.

SYDNEY OBSERVATORY

Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks
Bookings & Information: 9921 3485 or sydneyobservatory.com

NIGHT PROGRAMS

Early night tours

Nightly at 6:15pm

See Saturn and Venus setting in the Western constellations of Leo the Lion and Virgo the Goddess of Justice. The Southern Cross and other features of the clear cold winter skies are also visible during these early night sessions. Cost: $15 adult, $12 conc., $10 child, $45 family, Members: $13 adult, $10 conc., $8 child, $34 family. Bookings essential.

Late night tours

Nightly at 8.15pm

Few sights in the night sky match the beauty of the southern Milky Way’s objects like Omega Centauri and Eta Carinae. This month these objects plus others are perfectly placed high in the cold winter skies. Cost: $15 adult, $12 conc., $10 child, $45 family, Members: $13 adult, $10 conc., $8 child, $34 family. Bookings essential.

Twilight pizza nights

6, 8, 13 and 15 July, 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Special family nights featuring 3-D space adventures, telescope viewing and tasty pizza. If weather is overcast there will be a planetarium session and a star map creative workshop.  Cost: $30 adult, $27 conc., $25 child (4 years and over), $85 family. Members: $25 adult, $22 conc, $20 child, $72 family. Bookings essential.

DAY PROGRAMS

3-D Space Theatre, Telescope tours and Planetarium

Experience space like never before in the 3-D Space Theatre and hands-on astronomy as part of the telescope dome tours. In July the theme for the Planetarium sessions will be the Emu in the Sky featuring stories from the oldest star watchers on the planet, the Indigenous peoples of Australia.

11.00am – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Our Sun, what a Star.

12noon – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Bigger than big.

1.15pm – Planetarium session featuring Indigenous sky stories (weekdays only).

2.00pm – Planetarium session featuring Indigenous sky stories (Weekdays only).

2.30pm – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Our Sun, what a Star.

3.30pm – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the programs Bigger than big and Einstein’s Universe.

4.15pm – 3-D Space Theatre featuring the programs The Little Things and Bigger than big (double feature, no dome tour).

Cost per 3-D program: $7 adult, $5 children/conc, $20 family. Members free. No bookings required.

Eggonaut Splashdown Workshop

Wednesday 7 and Friday 16 July. 10:00am, 11:30am and 1:00pm

Use our recycled materials to build a landing capsule for your Eggonaut to safely land in our simulated ocean. Those that survive the first attempt will be launched from the highest point of the Observatory 40m above sea level! Parents and carers welcome (one free adult per child). Suitable for 8 – 12 years.

Cost: $10 child, $8 Members. Bookings essential.

MadLab Parent-Child Electronics Workshop

Saturday 3 and10 July, 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Parents and kids can team up for this fun hands-on electronics workshop. Learn how to recognise different electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors and transistors), place these into printed circuit boards and solder each component onto the board. A tour of the 3-D Space Theatre and telescope dome will highlight applications of advanced electronics and computing. Suitable for ages 10 – 15.

Cost: $40 per team of two, $32 for members. Bookings essential.

The Blue Planet with Manly Ocean World

Friday 9 July, 10.00am – 1.00pm

Searching for water is one of the most exciting aspects of modern astronomy. The Jovian moons of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto all have water deep under their icy surfaces but do they have life like our oceans? Experience the diversity of Earth’s oceans with Manly Ocean World’s touch pool activities and be inspired to draw or colour-in your own water and sky picture. Ages 3 and over.

Cost $10 per child, accompanying adults free. No bookings required.

Solar System model-making

Daily, between 10:00am and 4:00pm

Make a mobile of the Solar System to take home and string together. It even includes the dwarf planet Pluto! Free with any 3-D Space Theatre ticket. Suitable for 4 – 7 years.

Send us your sky and weather pictures

Send us your images of the sea and sky and we will load them onto a slide show to be shown at the Observatory everyday during the holidays. Visit our website for details.

SYDNEY OBSERVATORY

Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks

Bookings & Information: 9921 3485 or sydneyobservatory.com

NIGHT PROGRAMS

Early night tours

Nightly at 6:15pm

See Saturn and Venus setting in the Western constellations of Leo the Lion and Virgo the Goddess of Justice. The Southern Cross and other features of the clear cold winter skies are also visible during these early night sessions. Cost: $15 adult, $12 conc., $10 child, $45 family, Members: $13 adult, $10 conc., $8 child, $34 family. Bookings essential.

Late night tours

Nightly at 8.15pm

Few sights in the night sky match the beauty of the southern Milky Way’s objects like Omega Centauri and Eta Carinae. This month these objects plus others are perfectly placed high in the cold winter skies. Cost: $15 adult, $12 conc., $10 child, $45 family, Members: $13 adult, $10 conc., $8 child, $34 family. Bookings essential.

Twilight pizza nights

6, 8, 13 and 15 July, 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Special family nights featuring 3-D space adventures, telescope viewing and tasty pizza. If weather is overcast there will be a planetarium session and a star map creative workshop.  Cost: $30 adult, $27 conc., $25 child (4 years and over), $85 family. Members: $25 adult, $22 conc, $20 child, $72 family. Bookings essential.

DAY PROGRAMS

3-D Space Theatre, Telescope tours and Planetarium

Experience space like never before in the 3-D Space Theatre and hands-on astronomy as part of the telescope dome tours. In July the theme for the Planetarium sessions will be the Emu in the Sky featuring stories from the oldest star watchers on the planet, the Indigenous peoples of Australia.

11.00am – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Our Sun, what a Star.

12noon – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Bigger than big.

1.15pm – Planetarium session featuring Indigenous sky stories (weekdays only).

2.00pm – Planetarium session featuring Indigenous sky stories (Weekdays only).

2.30pm – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the program Our Sun, what a Star.

3.30pm – 3-D Space Theatre and telescope tour featuring the programs Bigger than big and Einstein’s Universe.

4.15pm – 3-D Space Theatre featuring the programs The Little Things and Bigger than big (double feature, no dome tour).

Cost per 3-D program: $7 adult, $5 children/conc, $20 family. Members free. No bookings required.

Eggonaut Splashdown Workshop

Wednesday 7 and Friday 16 July. 10:00am, 11:30am and 1:00pm

Use our recycled materials to build a landing capsule for your Eggonaut to safely land in our simulated ocean. Those that survive the first attempt will be launched from the highest point of the Observatory 40m above sea level! Parents and carers welcome (one free adult per child). Suitable for 8 – 12 years.

Cost: $10 child, $8 Members. Bookings essential.

MadLab Parent-Child Electronics Workshop

Saturday 3 and10 July, 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Parents and kids can team up for this fun hands-on electronics workshop. Learn how to recognise different electronic components (e.g. resistors, capacitors and transistors), place these into printed circuit boards and solder each component onto the board. A tour of the 3-D Space Theatre and telescope dome will highlight applications of advanced electronics and computing. Suitable for ages 10 – 15.

Cost: $40 per team of two, $32 for members. Bookings essential.

The Blue Planet with Manly Ocean World

Friday 9 July, 10.00am – 1.00pm

Searching for water is one of the most exciting aspects of modern astronomy. The Jovian moons of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto all have water deep under their icy surfaces but do they have life like our oceans? Experience the diversity of Earth’s oceans with Manly Ocean World’s touch pool activities and be inspired to draw or colour-in your own water and sky picture. Ages 3 and over.

Cost $10 per child, accompanying adults free. No bookings required.

Solar System model-making

Daily, between 10:00am and 4:00pm

Make a mobile of the Solar System to take home and string together. It even includes the dwarf planet Pluto! Free with any 3-D Space Theatre ticket. Suitable for 4 – 7 years.

Send us your sky and weather pictures

Send us your images of the sea and sky and we will load them onto a slide show to be shown at the Observatory everyday during the holidays. Visit our website for details.

SYDNEY OBSERVATORY

Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks
Bookings & Information: 9921 3485 or sydneyobservatory.com

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