Upcoming Events

8th of January

Intro To The Stars Festival

Time: 11 am - 1 pm & 1 pm - 4 pm Price: $55 per family (2 adults and 3 children) $20 per adult $15 per concession $10 per child (Ages 5 to 17)

This school holidays, we’re holding our Intro to the Stars Festival. Bring the family up and experience a fantastic day of activities, tours, and talks to get the kids fascinated with space and astronomy.

19th of January

Our Special Star School Holiday Program

Time: 10 am - 12 pm (Doors open at: 9:30 pm) Price: $15 per child (1 guardian spot included)

Learn about our Sun, the light and energy it gives off and how we can use it to tell the time, or power our electronics. In this program, we will look through a solar telescope at our sun and learn about sunspots and solar flares, and how we can use shadows to tell the time.

17th of January

Star Light Star Bright School Holiday Program

Time: 10 am - 12 pm (Doors open at: 9:30 pm) Price: $15 per child (1 guardian spot included)

Learn about stars, constellations, and how Astronomers discover new stars, planets, and asteroids. In this program, we will look at one of our historical telescopes and how it used photographic plates to find new stars. We will then go on a tour of our night sky (through the program Stellarium) and the constellations that make it up.

24th of January

Crash Landing! School Holiday Program

Time: 10 am - 12 pm (Doors open at: 9:30 pm) Price: $15 per child (1 guardian spot included)

Learn about the rocks that float in space and what happens when they crash land into the Earth.

In this program, we will observe a real meteorite and learn about what happens when they land on Earth. Then we will make our own meteors and learn about impact craters.

2nd of February

Lunar Photography Workshop

Time: 7 pm - 10 pm Price: $120 per person

This promises to be a fun relaxed evening of photographing the Moon on some fantastic telescopes using your camera. Using a combination of Astrophotography Australia telescope and equipment, and the Perth Observatory telescopes, we will have a wide range of focal lengths (magnifications) and types of telescopes available. You will be able to take photographs of the moon that feature the full disk, and photographs that are at much higher magnification.

2nd of March

Lunar Photography Workshop

Time: 7 pm - 10 pm Price: $120 per person

This promises to be a fun relaxed evening of photographing the Moon on some fantastic telescopes using your camera. Using a combination of Astrophotography Australia telescope and equipment, and the Perth Observatory telescopes, we will have a wide range of focal lengths (magnifications) and types of telescopes available. You will be able to take photographs of the moon that feature the full disk, and photographs that are at much higher magnification.

14th of February

Valentine’s Night Tour

Time: 8:30 pm - 10 pm Price: $55 per adult $25 per concession

Love is in the air at the Observatory. book on our special night sky tour so you can spoil that special someone in your life. Our Volunteers will take you on a grand tour of the Southern Hemisphere’s sky

The observatory will be open earlier as well so you can have a lovely picnic dinner on our back lawn with the kangaroos.

25th of March

Astrophotography Workshop

Time: 1 pm - 10 pm (Doors open at 12:30 pm) Price: $280 per person

Want to get started in astrophotography?

We’re running a workshop where you’ll learn to use your camera and a telescope. You’ll also learn what your equipment is capable of so you can try your hand at nightscapes and deep-sky photography.

It’s a fantastic full day of astrophotography that gives you a small group experience learning.

The Jubilee Dome

With the Orion Constellation

Image Credit: Roger Groom