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James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory. ... locations on Earth include the Mauna Kea Observatory, situated at 4205 meters ...

Palomar Observatory is a privately owned observatory located in San ... is located at this observatory. Operating some 290 nights a year in ...

A space observatory is an artificial satellite equipped with instruments ... Astronomical observations from the Earth's surface are hampered ...

Rise, Set, and Twilight Definitions]. Astronomical Applications Department ... (brightest), nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight (darkest). The ...

archaeoastronomy. In ancient cultures astronomical observations were often ... * [http://www.saao.ac.za/ South African Astronomical Observatory] ...

offered him a position in the Panzano Observatory, which he was constructing ... this but also constructed additional astronomical instrumentation, completed ...

and the United Kingdom's Royal Observatory at Greenwich translates ... appeared in the fourth century C.E. astronomical treatise Surya Siddhanta ...

and in 1471 he set up an astronomical observatory in Nuremberg, and ... built at Nuremberg the first astronomical observatory in Germany. He wrote ...

Satellites in use today include the XMM-Newton observatory (for low ... included ROSAT, the Einstein Observatory, the ASCA observatory ...

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 ...

Rømer joined the observatory of Uraniborg on the island of Hven, ... as an observer, both at the University Observatory at Rundetårn and in his ...

observational data (mainly from the observatory of Tycho Brahe) led to ... a drive for progressively more accurate astronomical observations and instruments ...

Earth's magnetic field, and his astronomical observations contributed ... in Islington, where he established an observatory for his own researches ...

The first identified astronomical radio source was one discovered ... Radio astronomy has led to substantial increases in astronomical knowledge ...

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. ...

He returned to astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago ... Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California ...

(100-inch) telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Helped by John A. Anderson ... star.] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 286(4):957–962 ...

This nebula was the first astronomical object identified with a historical ... Observations,] Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ...

and astronomer. He became head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, continuing the mathematical tradition of Varahamihira and Brahmagupta. ...

giant. Image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).]] ... Ruffle. Blowing Bubbles in the Cosmos: Astronomical Winds, Jets, and Explosions ...

Mass]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 91:456–466 ... fr/doc/catstd-3.2.htx Standards for Astronomical Catalogues, Version 2 ...

science of priest-kings. An astronomical observatory was from the beginning ... back when the Director of the Astronomical Observatory had asked Shen if ...

comets situated about 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical unit (AU) from the Sun ... of Comets from the Oort Cloud,”] Astronomical Journal 86 (November 1981 ...

in a range of areas of contemporary astronomical research. For example ... the Milky Way galaxy, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) established ...

of France in 1810 for the most original astronomical observation. of Astronomy and Director of the astronomical observatory in Göttingen, a ...

Hainzell, in the construction of an observatory that included a 19-foot ... was gradually acquiring through his astronomical and astrological pursuits ...

after the Roman god of the sea. Its astronomical symbol ( ... Galileo's astronomical drawings show that he had first observed ...

Clusters of Galaxies]. Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA. Retrieved February ... Clusters of Galaxies] – Chandra X-ray Observatory. Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...

possible means to achieve flight, made astronomical observations, and examined ... designing the monument, Royal Greenwich Observatory, and the infamous Bethlem ...

and physicist best known for his astronomical discoveries, including ... which also displays an important astronomical clock owned and used ...

Piazzi director, at the time, of the observatory of Palermo, in Sicily ... to the approval of the International Astronomical Union) once it is numbered. ...

either body. However, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has yet to ... searching for a ninth planet at Lowell Observatory. Tombaugh's work ...

:This article is about the astronomical term. [[Image:Solar eclips ... in 1997, with the SOHO space-borne solar observatory, the first platform capable ...

at his home from 1634 until 1637, on astronomical observations and experiments ... him, and he installed a fully equipped observatory in the top of his house ...

(astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ... issues of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1827, shows ...

compiled by the United States Naval Observatory, contains over 100,000 ... In 1915 astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory determined that Sirius ...

particles such as WIMPs and axions, astronomical bodies such as dwarf stars ... at a 1975 meeting of the American Astronomical Society [http://www ...

Other Nearby Stars", European Southern Observatory, November 19, 2002. ==External links== All links retrieved December 7, 2022. ...

years are noted in the table below.U.S. Naval Observatory, [http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.php Earth's Seasons: Equinoxes, Solstices ...

which would mark the Pawnee lodge as an observatory: #that a Pawnee ... The earth lodge served as an astronomical observatory and as the priests ...

located about 50,000ndash;100,000 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun ... of Comets, part I] European Southern Observatory, 2003. ...

Greek name Helios. Its astrological and astronomical symbol is a circle with ... ] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 221 (1986): 1023 ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical Union.] Retrieved May 6, 2015. ...

orbits. Currently, the International Astronomical Union considers objects ... is picked out with a CCD in the Spanish Observatory of Roque de los Muchachos ...

a major center of mathematical and astronomical research. ... and hence has proven well-suited for astronomical studies. ...

These devices most probably sacrificed astronomical accuracy for crowd-pleasing ... Max Wolf, former director of the Baden Observatory in Heidelberg, on a new ...

* [http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/index.en.html Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University] Category:History 220694135 ...

experiment at the Pierre Auger Observatory is underway to try to ... At a January 12, 2005, conference of the American Astronomical Society ...

conjunction of the sun and moon (the astronomical new moon) was calculated ... beginning at midnight is the day of the astronomical new moon. (Note, however ...

* Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory, the oldest astronomical observatory in China. * Mount Jigong, on the southern border. * Mount Song, near ...

motion in the twilight sky. The astronomical symbol for Mercury (displayed ... seen by John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. R. W. Sinnott ...

on his scientific career at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago ... *Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1953) *National Medal ...

distance on August 22, 1924 was 0.37284 astronomical units (AU) (compared to ... orientalist Percival Lowell founded an observatory that had 12- and 18-inch ...

rings carried out by James Keeler of Lick Observatory. ===Physical ... so in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the ...

a museum of art and archaeology, and an astronomical observatory. ==Culture== Until 1869, all buildings within the city proper were of wood or ...

Edward C. Pickering at Harvard College Observatory had developed a method ... quot; and "dwarf" stars,] The Observatory 36: 324–329. Retrieved ...

seventeen enormous folios," at the Observatory of Paris. It was begun ... allowed all calculations needed for astronomical navigation to be reduced ...

Based on his open mind and painstaking analysis of astronomical data ... " At age nine, he observed another astronomical event, the lunar eclipse ...

:This article is about the astronomical object. [[Image:Pleiades large ... used today, and they invented numerous astronomical instruments which could ...

work, he was able to demonstrate an astronomical or calendrical role in ... who claimed to see a large number of astronomical alignments, both lunar ...

events for people unaware of their astronomical nature, as the Sun suddenly ... The Director (of the Astronomical Observatory) asked me about the ...

one of world's oldest surviving astronomical observatories]] Cheomseongdae, a 9.4-meter high observatory built in 634, stands out ...

Seondeok (623-647), is the oldest extant astronomical observatory in East Asia, while some disagree on its exact functions. Muslim traders brought ...

. He was especially interested in the astronomical observatory, in the temple and in the ceremonial courtyard. ===Mayan pyramids=== ...

system was adopted by the International Astronomical Union, the body that oversees ... to directly determine the size of the astronomical unit, and hence of the ...

roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives. The support for his proposals was limited, even among his ...

The principal component of the solar system is the Sun (astronomical symbol ... distances within the solar system in astronomical units (AU). One AU is ...

Core.] National Radio Astronomy Observatory, November 10, 2005. Retrieved ... In the astronomical literature, the capitalized word 'Galaxy ...

study of radioisotopes as well as an astronomical observatory. During those decades the university continued to restructure its graduate school and ...

July 19–23, 2004. (San Francisco, CA: Astronomical Society of the Pacific ... Cosmochronology.] Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ...

scale"]. The Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2001. Retrieved June 28, 2017. * Sizes.com. [http://www.sizes ...

Being a henge and stone circle site, astronomical alignments are a common ... have been used as an accurate solar observatory by means of the shadows ...

worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society, as president ...

in which he discussed how numerous astronomical observations should be ... Most of the papers sent to Paris were on astronomical questions, and ...

nebulae] Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91 (1931):483–490 ... inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. This allowed him to estimate ...

improvements to the telescope, various astronomical observations, and initial ... He published his initial telescopic astronomical observations in March ...

Anders Celsius], Uppsala University - Astronomical Observatory. Retrieved April 23, 2008. One year later Frenchman Jean Pierre Cristin proposed to invert ...

and the Georgetown University Astronomical Observatory, built in 1844, ... Image:Georgetown University Observatory.jpg|Georgetown's observatory ...

it as a sacred site and was used as an astronomical observatory. ==Looking to the future== The revelation of the old Inca site of Machu Picchu ...

X-ray telescopes are important for astronomical observations. As technology ... In the 1990s, the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched, allowing ...

Percent of the Moon Illuminated US Naval Observatory, August 10, 2017. ... bodies are arranged ingeniously from an astronomical point of view such that ...

reported from the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory.A. McKellar, Dominion ... universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (1972):160. Rashid ...

between 1767 and 1777 into an astronomical observatory known as Specola, and the other buildings were used as prisons during the nineteenth and ...

On Eagle's Wings: The Parkes Observatory's Support of the ... partly because of storms near Parkes Observatory. More recent digital analysis ...

god Jupiter (also called Jove). The astronomical symbol for the planet ... with the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory in California. The discovery ...

spiral staircase inside. This structure was an observatory with its doors aligned to view the vernal equinox, the Moon's greatest northern and ...

the Jantar Mantar (an 18th century astronomical observatory) and the Purana Qila (a sixteenth century fortress). The Lotus Temple, Laxminarayan Temple ...

Hindu geographers. Jai Singh II built the observatory, one of the four such observatories in India and features ancient astronomical devices. The Simhastha ...

Many astronomical observations are better made from the interior of ... [https://www.livescience.com/9164-world-largest-neutrino-observatory ...

for its numerous branches. There are two major astronomical observatories: the Rozhen Observatory, which is the biggest in South Eastern Europe, and ...

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration ... typhoon Tiny Typhoon?] NASA Earth Observatory. Retrieved June 18, 2020. ...

employed as an Assistant in Harvard's astronomical observatory, doing important work on determining the brightness of stars and the shape of the ...