Month: March 2025

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Hide and Seek at the Old Observatory – 19th of March

Are you always lost in the Old Observatory? Or are you always the one who finds the way? On the 19th of March, we tested all our skills by playing Hide and Seek at the Old Observatory! In the end, everyone was found (eventually) ๐Ÿ™‚

Family Observatory Night – 12th of April

Drum rolls please ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅ Mark your calendars for the Observity Committeeโ€™s next big event: the Family Observatory Night! ๐Ÿ”ญโœจ Have you always wanted to show your family and friends around in the Old Observatory or brag about the famous physicist and astronomers that used the telescopes there? Well, on the 12th of April you can๐Ÿ˜Ž.…
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The Dish Movie Night – 10th of March

As Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, our only link was a satellite dish in rural Australia with a few bugs (and a few hundred sheep).๐Ÿ‘ We watched โ€˜The Dishโ€™ (2000) at the Old Observatory in Leiden on March 10thย atย 19:30๐ŸŒ‘๐ŸŒ’๐ŸŒ“๐ŸŒ”. Although the movie featured less sheep than we had thought, we can highly recommend…
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Hortus Botanicus Tour – 3rd of March

On the 3rd of March, the scientific director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden personally gave Kaiser members a tour through the oldest botanical garden of the Netherlands. We would like to thank Paul Kessler once again for all the details you gave about the plants and Hortus itself. It was a very fun tour!