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The Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) is located in Muthorai near Ooty, in South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] It is part of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which is funded by the Government of India through the Department of Atomic Energy . [ 5 ]
Pine Mountain Observatory: 1965 Bend, Oregon, US Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory: 1990 Pian dei Termini (near San Marcello Pistoiese), Italy Piwnice Ovservatory: 1945 Piwnice near Toruń, Poland Planetarium and Astronomical Observatory in Grudziądz: 1972 Grudziądz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland Plateau Astronomique de La Couronne: 2024
TRAO was established in October 1986 with the 13.7 meter Radio Telescope. It opened the new era of the millimeter-wave radio astronomy in Korea as one of the main facilities of Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute [24] (KASI). It is operated by Radio astronomy division in KASI. [25] Korean VLBI Network (KVN) Republic of Korea 22/43/86 ...
The new year will be a busy one in the night sky with celestial sights of all types for everyone to enjoy, many of which can be viewed without needing a telescope or traveling hundreds of miles to ...
Mount Jefferson is a mountain located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in Albemarle County. It lies south of Lewis Mountain, and is positioned at the northeastern edge of the Ragged Mountains. It was named Mount Jefferson in honor of Thomas Jefferson after the establishment of the Leander McCormick Observatory on the ...
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 ...
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It was opened in 1966 with a 31-inch (790 mm) Tinsley reflector, with a 40-inch (1,000 mm) Baker-Schmidt astrometric reflector following in 1972, to extend the parallax work of the McCormick Observatory, which was suffering from light pollution from growing Charlottesville, Virginia by this time.