An astronomer speaks into a microphone and points at the sky with a green laser pointer from the JMuseo terrace, the lights of Jesolo behind him

Saturday 19 September 2026 · JMuseo terrace

Saturn: the lord of the rings

Discovering Saturn and the wonders of the late-summer sky.

Scroll to relive the evening

18:30 → 22:00: from the guided tour to the last telescope
Saturn: the star of the evening, through the telescope
City of Jesolo: the evening was held under the City's patronage

The evening

The exhibition first, then the sky

It began indoors: at 18:30 the guided tour along the two floors of the exhibition, with the museum's guides. At 20:00 everyone went up to the terrace, where the Event Partner astronomers had set up the telescopes while the sky was still bright.

Then the dark, the red torches, the laser pointer raised to the sky and the turns at the eyepiece, until 22:00.

A visitor wearing a headset stands in front of the great lunar wall of the exhibition, with other people around

18:30

It begins inside the exhibition

A guided tour along the two floors of the itinerary, before going up to the terrace.

The star of the night

Saturn, in six numbers

What kind of planet: Gas giant
Distance from Earth: 1.34 billion km
Diameter: 116,460 km
One orbit of the Sun: 29.5 years
A day on Saturn: 10h 33m 38s
Temperature: −178 °C

The figures as the poster gave them.

$A young man leans over the refractor telescope set up on the terrace, with the sky still bright$

20:00

The telescopes take their places

The astronomers set up the stations on the terrace, with the sky still bright.

The programme

How the evening ran

18:30 → 20:00
The guided tour
A guided tour of the MOON exhibition with our guides.
20:00 → 22:00
Observing from the terrace
Observation through the telescopes, side by side with the expert astronomers, on the JMuseo panoramic terrace.

A child looks into the telescope eyepiece while an astronomer steadies the instrument beside him

The turn

One eye at a time

You go to the eyepiece one at a time, with an astronomer beside you.

The evening in pictures

Nineteenth of September, from the exhibition to the terrace

The interior of the JMuseo with the MOON — Between Earth and Space sign listing the floors, and visitors on the walkway above — The floor sign, at the entrance.

A visitor sitting at the orbital pulleys station lifts herself by pulling the rope, with an operator beside her — The orbital pulleys station.

The exhibition's white humanoid robot gestures in front of a visitor leaning on the railing to listen — The exhibition's robot and a visitor.

A large group of visitors, adults and children, listens to a guide in a MOON T-shirt in a darkened room — The guided tour group.

A young man aims the telescope leaning over the instrument, on the terrace, with daylight still high — Aiming while the sky is still bright.

A girl in a flowered T-shirt leans into the eyepiece of a refractor telescope — At the eyepiece of the refractor.

In the red light of a torch, a visitor at the telescope eyepiece and a young woman beside him, the sunset sky behind them — In the red light of the torches.

Close-up of the diagonal and eyepiece of a refractor telescope, in the dark — The diagonal and the eyepiece.

A man leans into the telescope eyepiece in the darkness of the terrace — A turn at the eyepiece.

A paper chart showing the orbits of the planets and the word Saturno, lit by a torch on the table — The orbit chart, lit by a torch.

Two people behind the dj console on the terrace in the evening, city lights behind them — The console on the terrace, in the evening.

The first-quarter Moon in the black sky, craters standing out along the shadow line — The first-quarter Moon.

Before the evening

How we announced it

The video the evening was announced with on social media: the rings of Saturn that cannot be seen with the naked eye, and the invitation to come and look at them through the telescope.

The announcement video, with its subtitles.

The Moon stays at the JMuseo until 6 January.

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