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Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park.It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
Griffith Observatory: 1935 Los Angeles, California, US Guillermo Haro Observatory: 1972 Cananea, Sonora, Mexico Gyarah Sidi: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India HALCA (defunct) 1997–2005 Elliptical Earth-centered orbit Haleakala Observatory: Maui, Hawaii, US Halley Observatory: 1987 Heesch, Netherlands Hamburg Observatory: 1803 Hamburg, Germany
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
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The Astronomers Monument in front of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California is a New Deal artwork created under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project. The large outdoor concrete sculpture honors the work of six great astronomers and is a Griffith Park landmark in its own right.
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)
Morning sky: Very bright Venus rises in the east around 5 a.m. in early January and around 6 a.m. late in the month. Mercury and Mars joined Venus low in the east in late December.
William Johnson McDonald (December 21, 1844 – February 8, 1926, though some sources give his date of death as February 6 ) was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 (the bulk of his fortune) to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory.