Pardubice observatory, Astronomical observatory in Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Pardubice observatory, named after Baron Artur Krause, occupies the top floors of the DDM ALFA children's centre on Gorkého street. Its dome holds a computer-controlled Cassegrain telescope with a 45 cm mirror and 6.75 m focal length, one of the largest instruments in the Czech Republic open to public viewing.

The observatory continues the work of Baron Artur Krause (1854–1930), who observed sunspots from a roof in central Pardubice from 1895 and left over a thousand drawings of the solar photosphere. The present facility in the DDM ALFA building opened to the public in 1992 in the presence of Jiří Grygar and telescope designer Jiří Drbohlav. Under Václav Knoll (1994–2007) the 0.42 m reflector was replaced by a computer-controlled 0.45 m Cassegrain.

Local people view this site as a center for learning and discovery, where amateur astronomers and professionals come together regularly. The observatory represents a shared connection between the community and the wider world of astronomical study.

Visitors can come on clear evenings when weather conditions allow observation sessions. It helps to check conditions beforehand, since clear skies depend on cloud cover and seasonal variations.

On 21 January 2019, a photograph taken here during a total lunar eclipse showed a brief point of brightening attributed to an asteroid impact. At the end of 2019 a weather station was installed, and a year later a BOLIDOZOR radiometeor station, the first in the Pardubice Region.