Bosscha Observatory

Bosscha Observatory building is the oldest planets observatory in Indonesia. Bosscha observatorium was built on January 1st 1923 by the Community of Astronomy of Indies Netherlands at the colonialism era. The Bosscha name was taken from the name of the donator from this observatory building - Karel Albert Rudolf Bosscha – the owner of the tea field in Malabar, Kabupaten Lembang, West Java, Indonesia. It’s about 15 km at the northern Bandung as the capital town of West Java. The land area is about 6 hectares on 1300 meters above the sea water level, makes this area as the best place to observe the stars, planets, milky ways, others galaxy parts and has beautiful scenery, fresh and pure air.

Bosscha is well known as the best observatorium in the Southeast Asia. This Obsevatorium have six big telescopes, such as: Multiple Zeiss Refractor Telescope, Milky Way Schmidt Telescope, Bamberg Refractor Telescope, GOTO Cassegrain Telescope, Unitron Refractor Telescope, and Real Time Solar Telescope as the newest there. Each of them are used for difference purposes. For example: The Real Time Solar Telescope is used to observe the out circle of sun, spectrum, and the cronospher. At about 60.000 person visits this place every year, most of them are students and the others are scientist or tourists from local and abroad. The visitors came to this place to see and learn the discovery science of our Galaxy. Since this place was built in 1923, at least 500 of worksheet of the research results have been produced.