Archenhold Observatory

Berlin · Germany

Archenhold Observatory, Germany
Photo: Sebastian Wallroth, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
autumn to spring
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limited
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Set in Berlin's Treptower Park, this observatory houses the longest refracting telescope in the world, a 21-metre instrument built for an 1896 exhibition. Public star-gazing evenings and lectures continue there today.

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