History

The association is born on campus.

On 30 April, students of the University of Toulouse found UPS in Space to share astronomy with anyone who wants it, with no condition of level.

The association starts up again.

Activities resume, the first instruments are bought, the first talks are given.

The observatory project is born.

The idea of an observatory run by students takes shape: it will become the Jocelyn Bell Observatory in Toulouse.

A new stage for UPS in Space.

The association turns a corner, carried by its members since it began. In August 2019 it is granted public-interest status, which gives entitlement to tax relief on donations.

The teams are set up.

The teams take the form we know today, with the help of the UPSILON student consultancy.

A first room for the equipment.

A 15 m² room is obtained to store the observing equipment of the association and of the observatory.

A move to 25 m².

The association moves to a 25 m² room in Préfabriqué 1, the university’s “Chez Paul Associatif”.

A room to live in, and the control room.

The association moves to a 50 m² room in the Maison des Étudiants et des Personnels (MEP, building U5). It finally has a place where its members gather, which changes the way it works entirely. It also serves as the observatory’s control room.

The Jocelyn Bell Observatory in Toulouse opens.

Official opening on 11 December, sixteen years after the association was founded and ten years after the project began.

The public comes into the observatory.

On Thursday 16 April, from 10 am to 5 pm, the observatory opens for the first time, with Jocelyn Bell Burnell there to see the observatory that carries her name.