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Tuesday8:30am - 11pm
Wednesday8:30am - 11pm
Thursday8:30am - 11pm
Friday8:30am - 11pm
Saturday8:30am - 11pm


The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located on Observatory Hill, in Saanich, British Columbia, was completed in 1918 by the Canadian government. The Dominion Architect responsible for the building was Edgar Lewis Horwood. The main instrument is the 72 inch aperture Plaskett telescope, proposed and designed by John S. Plaskett in 1910 with the support of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research. It was planned to be the largest telescope in the world but delays meant it was completed and saw first light on May 6, 1918, 6 months after the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory.The observatory has been designated a National Historic Site of Canada as it is a world-renowned facility where many discoveries about the nature of the Milky Way were made, and it was one of the world’s main astrophysical research centres until the 1960s.
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