Hours & Directions

MON, TUE: Closed

WED & THU : 10am - 5pm

FRI & SAT : 10am - 10pm

SUN : 10am - 5pm

A View to the Stars


Since 1883, countless visitors have gazed through the Chabot telescopes at the wonders of the night sky. Chabot Observatories: A View to the Stars explores the history of the Chabot Observatories and how its historic telescopes continue to be used today. Daytime visitors can virtually operate a telescope, experiment  with mirrors and lenses to understand how telescopes create images of distant objects, and travel though more than a century of Chabot's history via multimedia kiosks, historical images, and artifact displays.