Search results for "Astronomical observatory" - New World Encyclopedia
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- thumb|Far East's oldest astronomical observatory constructed between ... *[http://www.observatory-guide.org/ Milkyweb Astronomical Observatory ...10 KB (1,374 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory. ... locations on Earth include the Mauna Kea Observatory, situated at 4205 meters ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San ... is located at this observatory. Operating some 290 nights a year in ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- A space observatory is an artificial satellite equipped with instruments ... Astronomical observations from the Earth's surface are hampered ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- Rise, Set, and Twilight Definitions]. Astronomical Applications Department ... (brightest), nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight (darkest). The ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 20:41, 17 January 2024
- archaeoastronomy. In ancient cultures astronomical observations were often ... * [http://www.saao.ac.za/ South African Astronomical Observatory] ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- offered him a position in the Panzano Observatory, which he was constructing ... this but also constructed additional astronomical instrumentation, completed ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 20:28, 26 September 2023
- and the United Kingdom's Royal Observatory at Greenwich translates ... appeared in the fourth century C.E. astronomical treatise Surya Siddhanta ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 18:36, 4 March 2024
- and in 1471 he set up an astronomical observatory in Nuremberg, and ... built at Nuremberg the first astronomical observatory in Germany. He wrote ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- Satellites in use today include the XMM-Newton observatory (for low ... included ROSAT, the Einstein Observatory, the ASCA observatory ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 14:15, 20 May 2023
- In 1783, he gave Caroline a telescope and she began to make astronomical ... residence, which came to be known as Observatory House. It is no longer ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- Rømer joined the observatory of Uraniborg on the island of Hven, ... as an observer, both at the University Observatory at Rundetårn and in his ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- observational data (mainly from the observatory of Tycho Brahe) led to ... a drive for progressively more accurate astronomical observations and instruments ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- Earth's magnetic field, and his astronomical observations contributed ... in Islington, where he established an observatory for his own researches ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- The first identified astronomical radio source was one discovered ... Radio astronomy has led to substantial increases in astronomical knowledge ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- in Berlin, he was given space at an observatory in Potsdam, where he continued ... in 1916 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1923. ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- He returned to astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago ... Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California ...14 KB (2,031 words) - 23:56, 12 February 2024
- (100-inch) telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Helped by John A. Anderson ... star.] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 286(4):957–962 ...16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
- This nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical ... Observations,] Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ...23 KB (3,450 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- and astronomer. He became head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, continuing the mathematical tradition of Varahamihira and Brahmagupta. ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 16:27, 21 January 2022
