Giuseppe Piazzi observatory

Giuseppe Piazzi observatory is located in northern Italy; its name honours Giuseppe Piazzi, the Italian priest and astronomer best remembered for discovering the dwarf planet Ceres in 1801.

About Giuseppe Piazzi observatory

Giuseppe Piazzi observatory is an astronomical site in northern Italy. It takes its name from Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1826), the Italian priest, mathematician, and astronomer who discovered Ceres, the first asteroid to be identified, on 1 January 1801. Detailed public information about this specific facility's founding, operators, and instruments has not been published.

Location & getting there

The observatory's coordinates place it in northern Italy, in a landscape shaped by the Alps. Specific directions and access details are not widely documented, so check locally before planning a visit.

Visiting Giuseppe Piazzi observatory

No public visiting hours have been documented for this site. Anyone interested in visiting should check with local astronomy associations in the region before travelling.

See your named star from here

Piazzi's own work was built on precisely tracking a celestial object's position in the sky, the same kind of coordinates attached to every star named through Star Register. Name a star or browse the catalogue of stars already named.