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title: "Alston Observatory"
url: "https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/blog/2025-02-06-20-57-00-alston-observatory"
school: "The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School"
---

# Alston Observatory

  ![Image of Alston Observatory](https://files.schudio.com/the-blessed-sacrament-2/images/blog/IMG_3877.jpeg)  6 February 2025   [N Billingsley](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/blog/author/nbillingsley)   [YEAR 5 BLOG](https://www.blessedsacrament.mecmat.org/blog/category/year-5-blog)

This week year 5 visited Alston Observatory.   Our visit started with a talk about the key features of the planets in our solar system. We then studied some star constellations in the planetarium. Finally we saw one of the giant telescopes which is used to observe the night sky.

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