# Pic du Midi

*Observatory*

Observatoire du Pic du Midi de Bigorre

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 42.9400° N, 0.1400° E |
| State | F |
| What is done there | optical observatory |
| Main mirror | 2 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Pic du Midi de Bigorre or simply the Pic du Midi (elevation 2,877 m (9,439 ft)) is a mountain in the French Pyrenees. It is the site of the Pic du Midi Observatory.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=42.94,0.14
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_du_Midi_Observatory
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.