Vatican City 2015 Papal Observatory at Castel Gandolfo
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 19th November 2015
- two values
- Designed by: Daniela Longo
- Printed by: Printex Ltd, Malta, in sheets of 10
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 30mm x width 40mm
- perforations: 13.5 x 13.75
80th anniversary of the Papal Observatory at Castel Gandolfo
0.80€ ~ Galaxy, Pope Pius XI, 1857-1939, Pope from 1922), the Papal Palace at Castel Gandolfo, and Schmidt telescope installed there in 1957
0.95€ ~ Moon (of the Earth), Pope Francis (Pope since 2013), and large refractor telescope installed in 1935 on terrace of Castel Gandolfo
Notes: the Observatory was inaugurated September 29, 1935, initially with a double astrograph and a refractor telescope plus a laboratory for spectral analysis. Its operation was handed to Jesuits
