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Astronomy in central India

Night sky Observation (Observation of Messier object, Planetary Bodies etc.), Telescope Designing and usage, More information on movement and position of Celestial object, Tours to various Astronomical observatory

Radcliffe Observatory

Radcliffe Observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934, when the Radcliffe Trustees sold it and erected a new observatory in Pretoria, South Africa.

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.

Teylers astronomical observatory

The Teylers astronomical observatory (Dutch: Teylers Sterrenwacht) is an astronomical observatory built in 1784 on the roof of the Oval Room of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

Time in Thailand

Prior to 1 January 1901 - locations in Siam with an Astronomical Observatory would adopt the local mean time based on the Observatory's geographical position.

University of Toronto Southern Observatory

The University of Toronto Southern Observatory (UTSO) was an astronomical observatory built by the University of Toronto at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.


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13387 Irus

13387 Irus (1998 YW6) is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on December 22, 1998 at the Astronomical Observatory of Farra d'Isonzo in Farra d'Isonzo, Gorizia, Italy.

2348 Michkovitch

It was named for Vojislav V. Michkovitch (1892–1976), member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory.

5277 Brisbane

The city is named for astronomer Sir Thomas Brisbane, a colonial governor who founded the first astronomical observatory in Australia.

5332 Davidaguilar

It was discovered by Atsushi Sugie at Dynic Astronomical Observatory on February 16, 1990.

86196 Specula

It is named after a former name for an astronomical observatory in Eger, Hungary.

Astronomy in Chile

The Gilliss mission established the first astronomical observatory in the Cerro Santa Lucia (Santiago).

Bagnoud Observatory

François-Xavier Bagnoud Observatory (Observatoire François-Xavier Bagnoud) is an astronomical observatory paid for by Association François-Xavier Bagnoud.

Catequilla

Attributed to the Pre-Columbian era Quitu-Cara culture, it was presumably used as an astronomical observatory even before the arrival of the Incas, and is the only prehispanic site in the Americans that is thought to be exactly at Earth's Equator.

Farpoint

Farpoint Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League, or NEKAAL.

Grzegorz Pojmański

Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in Warsaw), Polish astronomer, worker of Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland.

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Astrodomi observatory, an astronomical observatory located in Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun

Linprun set up the first astronomical observatory for the Academy on his own initiative in a tower-like building on a bastion on the outskirts of Munich (today on Prinzregentenstraße opposite the Haus der Kunst).

Leoncito

Leoncito Astronomical Complex, astronomical observatory in the San Juan Province of Argentina

Lintong District

The National Time Service Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院国家授时中心), formerly known as Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory (陕西天文台), was established in 1966 in Lintong responsible for the time standard in mainland China.

Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury

It has been a year since the events in Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, and in that time a government-funded research project, Project Light, is built at the astronomical observatory on Mercury's north pole to conduct research into the newly discovered sub-etheric optics in hope of transmitting solar energy through hyperspace.

Luna 1

This glowing orange trail of gas, visible over the Indian Ocean with the brightness of a sixth-magnitude star for a few minutes, was photographed by Mstislav Gnevyshev at the Mountain Station of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR near Kislovodsk.

Neoclassical architecture in Milan

Within a few years, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Braidense Library were founded while the astronomical observatory, which was initially just moved into the palace, became the modern Brera Astronomical Observatory while the Brera Botanical Garden was established on the site of the Jesuits' herb garden.

Observatory, Cape Town

Beyond the astronomical observatory is Valkenberg psychiatric hospital, a Victorian building that has recently undergone extensive renovations.

Pic du Midi

Pic du Midi de Bigorre - A mountain in the French Pyrenees famous for its astronomical observatory.

Pulkovo

Pulkovo Observatory, The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, 19 km south of Saint Petersburg

Quito Astronomical Observatory

The Museum of the Quito Astronomical Observatory is located in La Alameda park.

Royal Observatory

Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope (merged with the Republic Observatory, Johannesburg, formerly the Union Observatory, to form the South African Astronomical Observatory in 1972)

Royal Observatory of Belgium

Adolphe Quetelet first petitioned the government of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands to establish an astronomical observatory in Brussels in 1823.

Samuel Mackenzie Elliott

He was a founder of the "Popular Science Monthly" magazine, promoted and championed the writings of Herbert Spencer, and built a large domed astronomical observatory in his hill top home.

Sherwood Observatory

Sherwood Observatory is an amateur astronomical observatory in Nottinghamshire, England, owned and operated by Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society.

Stansbury Park, Utah

The parks throughout Stansbury Park include baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard park, and an astronomical observatory.

Three College Observatory

Three College Observatory (TCO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T), and Guilford College (GC).

Tourism in Vellore

Vainu Bappu Observatory (also known as Kavalur Astronomical observatory) is home to the Vainu Bappu Telescope, the largest telescope in Asia.

UK Schmidt Telescope

The 1.2 metre UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) is operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (formerly the Anglo-Australian Observatory), and located adjacent to the 3.9 metre Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.

Van Vleck Observatory

Van Vleck Observatory (VVO, IAU code 298) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Wesleyan University.

Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii

Waimea is also home to the headquarters of two astronomical observatories located on Mauna Kea, the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.

William J. MacDonald

William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), American banker who endowed an astronomical observatory