Open hour
8: 30- 16: 30
Ticket
15 yuan, 9 yuan of children for following 1.3 meters, ten percent discount the above-mentioned the intersection of group and 30 people.
Traffic
Can walk mountaineering can also take cable car, the intersection of bunker and the intersection of city and cableway under the mountain stand, take cable car, go up a hill 35 yuan, the journey to and fro costs 60 yuan. Can reach the lower cableway station of mountain to visit Bus No.s 3, 20, 315 to take.
Introduce
The Japanese aggressor troop invaded and forced Nanjing in 1937, the astronomer carried the main part of the telescope to move to China, the instrument and equipment left were destroyed seriously, resumed progressively after the foundation of the state.
Hide precious astronomical instrument in ancient times of China in astronomical Taizhong, also there are instruments and apparatuses of 60 centimetres of catodioptric telescopes, the sun telescopes,etc. a lot of modernized measurement celestial bodies which China makes by oneself, become a comprehensive astronomical research institution in China.
The terrain of Zhong Mount belonged to in observatory of fort city and bunker city is dangerously steep on day. The intersection of fort and city and bunker city whether the intersection of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and period build two important military fortress day.
The fort city is on the mountain of Xifeng on day, in Purple Mountain observatory, it is quiet to build in the precipice today, can look down at the whole city.
The bunker city is under the mountain of Xifeng, outside the emergency exit, the fort is firm. Echo from head to foot, it is apt to keep the difficulty to attack.
The mountain range of mendicant Buddhist monk of Purple Mountain cableway is the second peak of Zhong Mount, 425 meters above the sea level. Newly-built Purple Mountain cableway passes from Purple Mountain observatory to the mountain range of mendicant Buddhist monk from the bunker city in the emergency exit, total length is 2350 meters, 330 meters of discrepancy in elevation, it is the longest bosun chair type cableway at present of China.
Purple Mountain observatory is the first modern astronomy organization that China set up, it is celestial body physics awarded by the committee of degree of the State Council of China in the first batch, the celestial body is measured with celestial mechanics some the doctors of two disciplines, master s degree and first class discipline of astronomy are clicked, and there are mobile stations for the post-doctors. Have two laboratories of radio astronomy and space astronomy, two research departments of celestial body physics and celestial mechanics, three open-air monitoring stations, among them the monitoring station of Qinghai is the only astronomical monitoring station of large-scale millimetre of wave radio at present of China, the wave radio telescope of 13.7 meters with international most advanced level is equipped inside the station. Radio astronomy of Chinese Academy of Sciences unites the open laboratory, people of Chinese Academy of Sciences and defends system centre and Chinese astronomical society and is affiliated to Purple Mountain observatory. Meanwhile, the authoritative organization studied in observatory or almanac and asteroid of Purple Mountain, have cooperation relations with more than 40 countries or regions and more than 240 astronomical organizations in foreign countries, enjoy very high reputation outside China.