The national observatory is the first and the only observatory of Nepal that is located at Nagarkot (270 41"30'N latitude and 85031"12'E longitude) at a height of 2115 meters above the sea level and about 30 Km. away from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. The observatory is equipped with Meade 16" LX200GPS, Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical Telescope and a guest house for researchers to stay during the observation. Mainly, students of the Master’s level are doing their research work as a dissertation and project work in the observatory every year. In addition to the telescope, we have other equipment like CCD, lunar flash telescope and so on. A large number of students from the different parts of the country regularly visit the observatory for night sky observation.

The national observatory is the first and the only observatory of Nepal that is located at Nagarkot (270 41″30’N latitude and 85031″12’E longitude) at a height of 2115 meters above the sea level and about 30 Km. away from Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. The observatory is equipped with Meade 16″ LX200GPS, Schmidt-Cassegrain Optical Telescope and a guest house for researchers to stay during the observation. Mainly, students of the Master’s level are doing their research work as a dissertation and project work in the observatory every year. In addition to the telescope, we have other equipment like CCD, lunar flash telescope and so on. A large number of students from the different parts of the country regularly visit the observatory for night sky observation.