Opening stargate at the Svábhegyi Observatory! Children's Day Solar System Walk spiced with stardust!

Every child is interested in the wonders of the night sky! What child doesn't want to visit the planets of our solar system? For Children's Day, we'll use all our secret tools to take a closer look! We'll use our telescopes to land on the Moon, travel to Venus' smelter or get a glimpse of the rusty surface of Mars. In our Meteorite Analyser, we can get our hands on lunar and Martian rocks, and in our Planet Sniffer Laboratory, we can test the exotic smells of our planetary neighbours. We can cook comets from cosmic recipes, caress plush planets and explore the colourful component of starlight in spectacular experiments.

See what we have in store for this afternoon and evening:

** 17:00-18:30 Daytime Astronomy:**

The Stargate opens at 17:00! 17:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Early arrivals can even catch a glimpse of the setting sun's sunspots and solar flares with our solar telescopes set up at the Telescope Workshop! After the sun has set, you can admire the crescent moon and its craters in the daytime sky. With our telescope giant in our Budapest dome, you can observe the planet Venus' 54% phase disk, the magnificent crescent Venus, in the daytime sky as early as mid-afternoon.

**17:00-20:30 Interactive activities, not just for kids: **

Before dark, there will be a series of scientific, interactive and fun activities closely related to astronomy:

On the Space-Time Trampoline, we will model the movement of planets and stars with the help of speeding marbles.

Meteorite 'laborator': we'll be looking into our microscopes to see the rainbow-coloured crystals of meteorites with our own eyes. You can also get your own hands on objects from billions of years of space.

**Our 'Spectrum Zone' **takes us into a colourful world of light and optical experiments, and shows us exciting things like black flames!

In our Plush Planetary Solar System program, we'll get to know all the planets and their most famous moons while holding them in our hands.

During a water rocket launch, you can watch our rocket launch live and learn how the rocket works.

'Comet cooking' in the garden, where you will have an unforgettable (g)astronomical experience while preparing a comet seed from your ingredients.

Smell the scents of the planets of the solar system by smelling 'space perfumes' in the flasks of a **planet sniffing lab! **A unique experience, we guarantee it! :)

As the night falls, the starry sky awaits!

21:00-22:00 - twilight stargazing

After sunset, we will take a look at Venus, the brilliant evening star. Now in all its glory, you can see the crescent's striking surface features, the steep mountain ranges of the Alps and the Apennines, and the crater giants on the lunar rim.

22:00-23:00 - night time telescoping

After full darkness, we will start exploring the starry night sky and immerse ourselves in the world of the most amazing deep-sky objects of spring!

We'll get to know celestial biggies such as the M3 globular cluster of the constellation of the Hunting Nebulae and the M13 globular cluster of the constellation of Hercules. We'll explore the brightest and largest arrow clusters in the spring sky, the Beehive cluster (M44) of the constellation Cancer and the Berenike Haja cluster (Mel 111). We'll also visit the famous pair of galaxies in the constellation of the Great Bear, the Bode galaxy (M81) and the Cigar galaxy (M82), and, as a harbinger of the summer sky, we'll catch a glimpse of the Ring Nebula (M57), a magnificent expanding ring of cosmic smoke.

Delve into the constellations and legends of the spring sky on our laser constellation tour.

Our programs held in Hungarian, however most of our astronmers speaks english.