loading…loading…People who've never looked through a proper telescope find themselves genuinely moved by what they see here—Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, the actual texture of the lunar surface. Bring someone who's forgotten to look up.
observatory · Independence Ave SW &, 4th St SW
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If you want to stand where 19th-century Jesuits mapped the capital's exact place on Earth, climb these brick steps and feel the weight of that precision still in the air.