Tree structure, Astronomy

Philippe, passionate about astronomy since the age of 10, has worked as a scientific animator at the Planetarium of Nîmes for more than 22 years.

Philippe is regularly published in specialized journals, and heaven has no secrets for him!

So take advantage of its telescopes to discover planets, nebulae, galaxies and leave with incredible images of the sky.


Astrophotographer, he uses his images to create articles or photo albums, and performs numerous services in the valley. Astro conferences: (unlimited number of people)

Lasting approximately 90 minutes, the themes are as follows:

- Travel in the solar system

- Life and Death of Stars

- From Earth to the Big Bang

- Can the sky fall on our heads?

- The Mysteries of Mars

Night astronomy : (limited to 20 people max) Above Goulier village or the Port of Lers, come and enjoy a particularly bright 360mm diameter telescope open to F/4, discover nebulae, galaxies but also the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Images taken using a digital camera specialized in astronomical imaging with special filters for nebulae.

Tour of the sky and identification of the North and South constellations.

Daytime astronomy: (limited to 20 people max): On Vicdessos, come and observe the sun and its flames using a special 204mm diameter telescope allowing the H-alpha ray to be isolated (light emitted by solar protuberances and the rich chromosphere in magnetic currents)

Visual observation of sunspot groups and solar flares.

Images taken using a suitable camera.

Notions of light spectrum and decomposition of light, transformation of matter into energy, wavelengths, distances, space / time shift.

Comments Day/Night not suitable for children under 10 years old.

You will have access to the images obtained during these observations on the photoastro.com website under ASTRO Days / Evenings

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