Specola Solare Ticinese, Locarno
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News and Highlights:
- The Specola Solare Ticinese has suspended all scientific outreach activities as of 1 May 2025 due to major renovation work on the building. However, scientific research activities will continue as normal. The works will be completed no earlier than the summer of 2026, after which all activities will resume as normal. We look forward to welcoming visitors again once the work is complete.
- Notice of the ASS Ordinary General Meeting
The Ordinary General Meeting of the Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese (ASST) will be held
on Thursday, 22 January 2026 at 8:00 p.m.
at the Liceo cantonale in Locarno (room 206, accessible from the secondary entrance of block 2, opposite the south corner of the gym: see map). If the door is closed, please call 079 720 72 80.
The following agenda will be discussed during the meeting:
1. Approval of the agenda
2. Reading of the minutes of the 2025 meeting
3. President’s report
4. Activity reports of the two Institutes: Specola and IRSOL
5. ASST financial report for 2025
6. Auditors’ report
7. Miscellaneous
At the end of the meeting, Francesco Vitali will present a seminar entitled «IRSOL: straordinaria osservazione di una coppia di brillamenti solari di classe X». - The Specola Solare Ticinese at RTS (in French)
Pourquoi l’observatoire de Locarno compte et dessine manuellement les tâches solaires? - An interactive exhibition about our star
What does a star 150 million kilometres away have to do with the dinner table in our house, the clock radio and a wardrobe full of colourful T-shirts? To answer that, we will have to explore the exhibition spaces and get involved ourselves. We will thus be able to look at ourselves in a different light and discover that the Sun touches our lives even when we don’t expect it.
Exhibition at the Ideatorio in Cadro (italian text)