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Founded in 1978, the observatory houses the second largest telescope in Eastern Canada after David Dunlap Observatory near Toronto. [1] It is situated at the summit of Mont Mégantic, the highest point of Eastern Canada accessible by car. OMM is about 60 kilometres (37 mi) east of Sherbrooke and 190 kilometres (120 mi) east of Montreal.
The Allan I. Carswell Astronomical Observatory, formerly known as the York University Astronomical Observatory, is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by York University. It is located in the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1969, York's observatory is opened to both researchers and amateur astronomers.
Cypress Observatory, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park Centre Block, Maple Creek; Davin Observatory, RASC Regina Centre, Davin; Saskatchewan Science Centre Observatory, Regina; Sleaford Observatory, RASC Saskatoon Centre, north of Colonsay; Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), University of Saskatchewan
NRC-HAA also operates the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory outside of Penticton, British Columbia and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as well as managing Canadian involvement in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Gemini Observatory, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the Square Kilometre Array, and the Thirty Meter Telescope, as well as Canada's national astronomy data centre.
Ritter Planetarium & Brooks Observatory, University of Toledo, Toledo Shafran Planetarium at Cleveland Museum of Natural History , Cleveland Shaker Heights High School Planetarium at Shaker Heights , Cleveland
Concept sketch of David Dunlap Observatory. The DDO owes its existence almost entirely to the efforts Clarence Chant. [3] Chant had not shown an early interest in astronomy, but while attending University College, University of Toronto, he became interested in mathematics and physics, eventually joining the university as a lecturer in physics in 1892. [4]
Many modern telescopes and observatories are located in space to observe astronomical objects in wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere (such as ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays) and are thus impossible to observe using ground-based telescopes. [1]
Algonquin Radio Observatory was inaugurated in 1959 and became Canada's national radio observatory in 1962. [4] The observatory house complex, radiometer building, utility buildings, University of Toronto Laboratory, 10 m (33 ft) dish and parabolic microwave feed horn instruments were designed in 1959 and construction was completed in phases over the next several years.