Barbastro. Ruesta Rolin space

Named after the designer of the Barbastro Cathedral tower, it’s located 6 km from the capital of Somontano and 300 meters from the entrance roundabout to the village of Cregenzán on the road to Hoz de Barbastro. It has ample parking and several platforms for setting up telescopes and another hexagonal platform for sitting and stargazing. This nods to the shape of the Barbastro Cathedral tower designed by Francisco de Ruesta.

From Cregenzán, you can enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of Somontano, where the Mediterranean trilogy predominates, with fields of olive trees and cereals.

Here, you can observe the paths of planets, the moon, and zodiac constellations along the imaginary line known as the ecliptic.

You can also witness meteor showers, which occur when tiny dust particles from a comet enter the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and disintegrate by friction, producing the luminous trail we call a meteor or shooting star.

If we extend the traces of meteors from the same shower, they all seem to come from one area, the radiant point. All particles enter the atmosphere parallel to each other, but their distance makes them appear to come from a single point.

The constellation where the radiant resides gives the meteor shower its name (Perseids, Geminids, Orionids, etc.). The most famous meteor shower is the Perseids or Tears of Saint Lawrence.

We recommend using a paper planisphere or a mobile app to locate them: