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Educational observatory This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location. The list also includes a final year of operation for many observatories that are no longer in operation.
The first permanent mountaintop astronomical observatory was the Lick Observatory constructed from 1876 to 1887, at the modest elevation of 1,283 m (4,209 ft) atop Mount Hamilton in California. [2] The first high altitude observatory was constructed atop the 2,877 m (9,439 ft) Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees starting in 1878, with ...
American astronomical observatory stubs (112 P) Pages in category "Astronomical observatories in the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Cincinnati Observatory, known locally as Mt. Lookout Observatory, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States) on top of Mount Lookout. It consists of two observatory buildings housing an 11-inch (28 cm) and 16 inch (41 cm) aperture refracting telescope .
UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald Observatory, operated by the University of Texas at Austin, and located in Fort Davis, Texas (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
The observatory sits at the summit of 5,715-foot Mt. Wilson, accessible only by a serpentine stretch of Angeles Crest Highway. When George Ellery Hale established it in 1904 with funding from what ...
The observatory was built at a cost of over $500,000 in 1995, with Herbert Robinson donating almost half of the total cost. The observatory was given the name Robinson posthumously, eight months after Herbert Robinson's death, on April 25, 1996. [3] In the 2000s, a number of updates and renovations were completed at the observatory.
One World Observatory in New York City is offering people the chance to witness the April 8 total solar eclipse from the highest point in the city.