# Pico dos Dias

*Observatory*

Observatório do Pico dos Dias, Minas Gerais

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 22.5300° S, 45.5800° W |
| State | BR |
| What is done there | optical observatory |
| Main mirror | 1.6 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 Pico dos Dias Observatory) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the National Astrophysical Laboratory of Brazil). It is located in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, 37 kilometers (23 mi) from the city of Itajubá.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=-22.53,-45.58
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_dos_Dias_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.