MOON — Tra Terra e Spazio

Saturday 17 October 2026 · JMuseo, Jesolo

The autumn sky

The stars change, the show goes on.

Scroll to relive the evening

18:00 → 21:00
from the guided tour to observing from the terrace
3 Event Partners
Associazione Astronomica Euganea, Unione Astrofili Italiani, MarSEC
City of Jesolo
the evening was under the patronage of the City

The evening

From the exhibition to the terrace

At 18:00, the guided tour of the MOON exhibition with our guides. At 19:30 we went up to the JMuseo panoramic terrace, to observe the autumn sky with the Event Partners' instruments.

Then the red torches, the laser pointed at the sky, the turns at the eyepiece, the workshop table and the DJ console, until 21:00.

A man speaks into a microphone and points a green laser at the sky from the terrace, with the lights of Jesolo behind him

19:30

The sky, from the terrace

Observing the autumn sky with instruments, on the JMuseo panoramic terrace.

The sky on the poster

The map of the evening

The poster for the evening was a map of the sky. These are the names it carried.

Orion
with Betelgeuse and Rigel
Taurus
with the Pleiades cluster
Canis Major
with Sirius
Winter Triangle
traced with a dashed line on the map
The poster for the evening of 17 October: a map of the sky with Orion, Taurus with the Pleiades, Canis Major and the Winter Triangle, and the evening's programme below

The programme

How the evening went

  1. 18:00 → 19:30

    The guided tour

    Guided tour of the MOON exhibition, with our guides.

  2. 19:30 → 21:00

    Observing from the terrace

    Observing the autumn sky with instruments, on the JMuseo panoramic terrace.

A man in a grey hoodie bends over the eyepiece of a white telescope, lit by red light, with other people waiting

Your turn

One eye at a time

At the eyepiece it is one at a time, by the red light of the torches.

From 19:30

The evening, until 21:00

A boy bends over the eyepiece of a large black telescope, with the sky still light
The first look, with the sky still light.
A curly-haired girl, lit by red light, looks into the eyepiece of a telescope
By red light.
A child waits next to a white telescope, with other people around
Waiting for a turn.
In black and white, a man bends over the eyepiece of a telescope in the dark of the terrace
The turn of whoever is looking.
A phone frames the sky and the city lights, in the dark
The sky, on a phone.
A man with headphones around his neck at the DJ console with turntables, on the terrace in the evening, with the city lights behind
The DJ console, in the evening.
A young woman in a white shirt helps a boy with glasses draw, at a table lit by a lamp
At the workshop table.
Three children draw at a table, with an adult sitting nearby and more children around
A full table.

The Moon stays at the JMuseo until 6 January.