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Perth Observatory

337 Walnut Rd, Bickley WA 6076, Australia

4.8(345)

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+61 8 9293 8255

Website

perthobservatory.com.au

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susan hughessusan hughes

Awesome place day and night! Interesting museum and shop. We were lucky to be part of a group who camped overnight. Nice walk through area during the day observing the wildflowers and reading the information signs outside the various buildings. At night there is a golf buggy to drive you up to the various observatories. We opted to walk. We got a chance to see Saturn, the moon and various star clusters. It was a full moon which was great but difficult to see some stars as the moon was too bright. The volunteers were very knowledgeable. Afterwards we had a BBQ, great music and sat around a camp fire. Great experience! 👍👍👍

J TanJ Tan

Fantastic experience. We visited and joined the Perth Winter Nights tour. Doors opened at 7 and we could take a look around the museum and gift shop. Tour started at 730 with the volunteer guides walking us through the museum before we headed up to the domes where we viewed several celestial objects.. Really amazing experience.. Look out for the Emu in the sky! Unfortunately I don't have more pictures.. Would have loved to take some at the domes, but it was dark (can't see stars if it isn't dark!) and the phone light would kill my night vision 😅

Ken PoliranKen Poliran

The place is currently run with volunteers. So please be kind to them. Paul was very helpful an accomodating us during our visit in day time. It’s a magical place for those have interest in science and stars. Ramp access is located behind the main building. Download before hand the Everythere Apps (AppStore and Google Store) if you want to have a self guided tour (although I have not successfully used is it as I don’t have the PIN of the apps). I will send another update if we will joined a tour in a month or two. Highligh - The Meteorites.

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Reviews of Perth Observatory

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4.0

Passionate volunteers, beautiful scenery, fascinating telescopes and storytelling.

Loved the moon tour we went on, and wish I could hang at a bar with the geologists afterwards.

They were clearly incredibly passionate and knew so much more than we could cover in the tour time!

🌱 A note on accessibility:

Unfortunately support for mobility and hearing access isn’t built into the tour experience by default.

My vibe was that this wasn’t out of neglect, but more a lack of funding...

1.0

Very disappointing experience from this place. I had been observing a bright star with the unaided eye from my neighborhood for many weeks and, wanting to identify it, I thought I would contact this observatory and hopefully get an experienced astronomer to identify it from a good description that I sent. I gave a good, well written description of this star, including relative size, colours, movement in the sky and its locations at certain times.

But all I got back from the 'Tour...

4.0

The thing about looking through a telescope is it's fairly underwhelming for mister Joe Blow compared to the fantastic detailed sky photography that is presented as reality based on hundreds of exposures, each lasting many minutes, computer combined to a single image then artificial colour added derived from radiation sources we cannot see, what you'll see on the night through the telescopes is generally bright smudges. The night tour started at 19:30, the sky is impressively dark looking...

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