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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.
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]
Newbrook Observatory (disused) Oldman River Observatory, Lethbridge Astronomical Society, Lethbridge; Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, University of Calgary, Priddis, Alberta; Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station (historic site) Sunridge Observatory, south of Medicine Hat; Telus World of Science Edmonton RASC Observatory, Edmonton
The University of Toronto Southern Observatory (UTSO) was an astronomical observatory built by the University of Toronto at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. It hosted a single 60 cm Cassegrain telescope and a small cottage for the operators, located amongst the instruments funded by other organizations. The first observational runs ...
A new magnetic observatory opened in 1898 in Agincourt, at that time largely empty fields, (found on later maps on the north end of George Forfar farm east of Midland Avenue near Highway 401 or where Health Canada Protection Branch building resides today [18]) leaving the downtown campus location with its meteorological and solar observation ...
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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.
She reports to her father, who is on his deathbed in a Toronto hospital, that she enjoyed the show but found the planetarium to be "a slightly phony temple" to the stars. [ 29 ] In the opening chapter of Robert J. Sawyer 's 2000 science fiction novel Calculating God , an alien spaceship lands directly in front of the McLaughlin Planetarium ...