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Can you upgrade an Observatory in the same phase you used its draw?
The designer answered this directly on BGG in 2011, and the 2010 clarification agrees; it clarifies the rulebook's wording.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2011-07-31
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2010-09-02
- Saint Petersburg rulebook · Rulebook · Descriptions of the Special Cardsdisagrees
- InfoCynic · Community · 2007-01-11disagrees
- puck71 · Community · 2009-02-18
- Masakari · Community · 2012-04-11disagrees
- rmanning · Community · 2008-09-04disagrees
No, not in the phase where you used it. Once used, the Observatory is turned face down and cannot be upgraded then. The designer ruled that it may be upgraded later in the same round, during the aristocrat or trading card phase, which clarifies the rulebook's wording that it turns face up at the start of the next round.