Specola Solare Ticinese, Locarno

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The Specola Solare Ticinese will cease all scientific outreach activities as of 1 May 2025 due to major renovation work on the building. However, scientific research activities will continue as normal. The works will be completed no earlier than the summer of 2026, after which all activities will resume as normal.
The Centro Astronomico del Locarnese (CAL) regularly conducts outreach activities. The next event can be found on the CAL homepage.
The Specola Solare Ticinese at RTS (in French)
Pourquoi l’observatoire de Locarno compte et dessine manuellement les tâches solaires?
An interactive exhibition about our star
What does a star 150 million kilometres away have to do with the dinner table in our house, the clock radio and a wardrobe full of colourful T-shirts? To answer that, we will have to explore the exhibition spaces and get involved ourselves. We will thus be able to look at ourselves in a different light and discover that the Sun touches our lives even when we don’t expect it.
Exhibition at the Ideatorio in Cadro (italian text)