A year earlier, the Paris Observatory had sent astronomical instruments to the city of Bragado, Buenos Aires, to observe a transit of Venus in front of the Sun, for which the location was particularly suitable, and which raised considerable interest in scientific circles.
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The first director of the new institution was Francisco Beuf (lieutenant of the French Army and director of the Naval Observatory of Toulon).
He was a department director at the Observatorio Astronómico de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, specializing in astrometry and celestial mechanics, from 1955 to 1972.
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It is named for Ana Teresa Diego (1954–1976), an astronomy student at La Plata Astronomical Observatory and political activist who was kidnapped and disappeared in September 1976 by unidentified persons believed working for the military junta then ruling Argentina.