ASTRONOMICAL WALK

Monday, October 2 at 10:00 a.m.
Astronomical Observatory, Zvezdara Forest Park, Volgina 7

If you didn't know, the Municipality of Zvezdara (both the forest Zvezdara and our Festival) owe their starry name to the Astronomical Observatory: in 1932, on the hill that was then called Veliki Vračar (Great Vračar), on the initiative of Milan Nedeljković, a professor at the University of Belgrade, astronomical observatory was built. From the first day, the observatory was so fascinating to the citizens of Belgrade that they began to call the area where it was located Zvezdara, after the observatory.

In the Astronomical walk through the Observatory complex, elementary school students will find out what astronomy is, what types of constellations exist, how planets and satellites move, how solar and lunar eclipses occur, what the tail of a comet is made of, what supernovas are, how black holes are formed... They will have the opportunity to take a look around the Administration Building, the museum display of old astronomical instruments, the library of exceptional scientific and architectural value, the Great Refractor, the largest telescope of its kind in the Balkans, and the Small Refractor.

The observatory complex was declared a cultural monument in 2001.

Vesna Mijatović, librarian and coordinator of the Museum of Astronomy and Nenad Milovanović, astrophysicist will lead the astronomical walk.

Duration: 40 minutes
Recommended age: 13+