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Wellesley College Whitin Observatory 12-inch Fitz Jacob Campbell's 12 inch refractor [16] 30 cm (12") achromat: Massachusetts, USA New York, USA: 1900 1852 University of Illinois Observatory: 30 cm (12") achromat: Urbana, Illinois, USA: 1896 Merz und Mahler (Mitchell cupola), Cincinnati Observatory: 28 cm (11") achromat: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: 1843
The first determination of New York City's longitude was made from the cupola of Columbia College during the solar eclipse of 1821. In 1856, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd built a private observatory at his Manhattan home and later donated his photographs to Columbia University. [ 1 ]
Foggy Bottom Observatory: 1951 Hamilton, New York, US Foothill Observatory: Los Altos Hills, California, US Ford Observatory: 1998 Ithaca, New York, US Fox Observatory: Sunrise, Florida, US Fox Park Public Observatory: 1999 Potterville, Michigan, US Francis Marion University Observatory: 1982 Florence, South Carolina, US Fred Lawrence Whipple ...
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 event will start a little after 12 p.m. CT in areas of Texas and after 2 p.m. ET in Pennsylvania, New York and parts of New England. The rest of us can watch Monday's eclipse on TV and online.
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.