Extraterrestrial life?
Are we alone in the universe? Could there be life beyond Earth? For the first time in human history, modern astronomy and space exploration tools have brought us closer to the answer than ever before! At this Stargate, extraterrestrials take center stage!
Our astrobiology program will reveal whether there are conditions suitable for life on Mars or Europa and what exoplanets could be the seeds of life.
Our UFO roundtable discussion will reveal what we can consider to be unidentified flying objects in the sky.
Schedule
Stargate: In the excitement of our major astronomical event, you can visit the Svábhegy Observatory program venues freely, at your own pace. It is worth buying tickets online in advance, but tickets can also be purchased on site.
Programs:
Astrobiology lecture - let's look for signs of life!
UFO roundtable discussion - unidentified flying objects on the horizon.
Interactive astronomy programs
Meteorite examination - hold stones from space in your hands!
Spectrum Zone - light experiments in all colors of the rainbow
Planet Sniffing Laboratory - get ready for some serious sniffing!
Comet Cooking - we cook out the smoking comet core
Space-Time Trampoline - put the planets into orbit around the Sun!
Telescope Tricks - we take it apart, cut it in half, look inside, and focus it.
Nighttime telescope observation
Saturn: we can admire this planet, which rises higher and higher during the evening, from all of our observation sites!
Uranus: the northern pole of this unique, yellow-green planet with a tilted axis faces us in the telescope.
Neptune: our outermost sea-blue planetary neighbor waves at us from the edge of the solar system.
The waning Moon, rising after 10 p.m., is aligned with the star Elnath in the constellation Taurus. On the Moon, we can admire the famous trio of craters on the edge of the Nectaris basin: Theophylus, Cyrillus, and Catharina.
The most beautiful deep-sky objects of autumn also await us:
Glittering globular clusters and open clusters: M2 and M15 globular clusters, the Double Cluster, the Spiral Cluster, the Shoulder Cluster, the rising Pleiades, and the unmissable E.T. Cluster tonight.
Cosmic smoke rings of planetary nebulae: Ring Nebula, Saturn Nebula, Blue Snowball Nebula.
For now, only with our telescopes, but we will also visit our neighboring galaxy, the Andromeda Nebula!
In case of cloudy weather: Our Stargate event will take place regardless of the weather, as our interactive program venues are always accessible. In cloudy weather, instead of observing celestial bodies through telescopes, we will offer dome tours, video observations through telescopes, spectroscopic light source observations through telescopes, and themed lectures!
Svábhegyi Observatory of Budapest
"The Svábhegyi Observatory is the largest demonstrational observatory in Budapest also an interactive astronomy experience centre. Our main goal is to bring the beauty of the Universe closer to everyone."