A Holy Trinity

Here are three videos we filmed at The Vatican with “The Pope’s Astronomer” - Brother Guy Consolmagno.

First, a tour of four telescopes at the Papal residence and gardens at Castel Gandalfo, outside Rome.

Telescopes were once stationed on the walls of The Vatican itself, but they were moved out of Rome due to light pollution.

We tour four enormous telescopes at The Vatican. See two other videos in this "trinity" - Papal Space Rocks at https://youtu.be/5OI4wb2XIZc and The Pope's As...
Mars and Moon rocks are just some of the treasures at the Vatican Observatory. Papal Telescopes at https://youtu.be/ccoGKAL6Qas and a longer interview with B...

And finally, a longer sit down interview with Brother Guy. Talking about religion, space, and other stuff.

Speaking with Brother Guy Consolmagno - director of The Vatican Observatory. See two other videos in this "trinity" - space rocks at LINK and The Pope's Tele...

These videos were posted across three of my channels - Deep Sky Videos, Objectivity and Sixty Symbols.

If you are unfamiliar with any of them, please do have a look.

Here are more telescope tours on Deep Sky Videos. And here are more space-themed videos from Objectivity.

Pictured below is James Hennessy filming one of the telescopes during our trip.

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Our thanks to Brother Guy for hosting us at The Vatican Observatory.

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