He also relentlessly pursued support for astronomical efforts and observatories, seeking a national observatory for the United States.

Apart from its centres of learning, the campus features the Macquarie University Research Park, museums, art galleries, a sculpture park, an observatory, a sport and aquatic centre, a fauna park and also the private Macquarie University Hospital.

In 1579, Jost Bürgi built a clock for William of Hesse that marked In 1581, Tycho Brahe redesigned clocks that displayed minutes at his observatory so they also displayed seconds.

The University is also the province's second largest research institution and the nation's lead institution in the VENUS and NEPTUNE deep-water seafloor observatory projects.

The Austrian sovereign also promoted culture in Milan through projects such as converting the ancient Jesuit College, in the district of Brera, into a scientific and cultural centre with a Library, an astronomic observatory and the botanical gardens, in which the Art Gallery and the Academy of Fine Arts are today placed side by side.

* UT0 is Universal Time determined at an observatory by observing the diurnal motion of stars or extragalactic radio sources, and also from ranging observations of the Moon and artificial Earth satellites.

USNO continues to maintain its dark-sky observatory, NOFS, near Flagstaff, Arizona, which also now oversees the Navy Precision Optical Interferometer.

The observatory also operates two rubidium atomic fountain clocks, which have a stability reaching 7 × 10 < sup >− 16 </ sup >.

At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ( initially filled by John Flamsteed ), to serve as the director of the observatory and to " apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.

Prophet Muhammad also stressed the magnitude of the " second glance ", as the first glance towards an attractive member of the opposite sex could be just accidental or observatory, the second glance could be that gate into lustful thinking.

Nearby is an observatory and the Wank-Haus, also known as the Alois Huber Haus, a mountain hut that provides food and accommodation to visitors.

While this was being constructed, von Miller was also working at the Zeiss factory with German astronomer Max Wolf, director of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl observatory of the University of Heidelberg, on a new and novel design, inspired by Wallace W. Atwood's work at the Chicago Academy of Sciences and by the ideas of Walther Bauersfeld at Zeiss.

The Cadet Area also contains an observatory and a planetarium for academic use and navigation training.

The orientation also serves a more practical purpose of using the temple roof as an observatory for Sumerian timekeeping.

There is also a 120-seat digital planetarium and an observatory with a state-of-the-art 20-inch telescope located at Tellus.

It also manages an astronomical observatory where many tourists and locals come visit and view the stars and planets and the Museo Casa Roig were arts expositions and cultural events are celebrated.

The observatory regularly schedules viewings available to the public, and also provides shows that are intended to educate individuals about astronomy.

There is also an observatory and wildlife refuge within the park.

As a result Crowell is also home to Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus, a observatory built by Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts & Sciences.

His son, Knut Ångström, also conducted research on solar radiation at the observatory.

The observatory also conducts research, primarily the testing of new weather measurement devices.

This observatory is also called the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, although " NAIC " refers to both the observatory and the staff that operates it.

There has also been an optical telescope at the observatory ; an reflecting optical telescope was donated to the observatory in 1951.

She battled the X-Men and fled to the stars, devoured the energies of the D ' Bari star system to satisfy her " hunger " as Dark Phoenix, annihilating the five billion inhabitants of its fourth planet, and destroyed a nearby Shi ' Ar observatory vessel which opened fire on her before returning to Earth.

The site of the old observatory in Bern is the point of origin of the CH1903 coordinate system at.

Research at the observatory over the years includes stellar parallaxes, stellar statistics, galactic structure, external galaxies, stellar atmospheres and solar system research.

Planetario Alfa, Museum, Astronomical observatory and IMAX Dome system, Monterrey, Nuevo León | N. L.

Photographic plates from this observatory, taken at the same time, were used by Van de Kamp for his erroneous claim of a planetary system for Barnard's Star.

It was discovered in 1992 by astronomers at Palomar observatory and later named after Louis Braille, the inventor of the writing system for the blind.

* Gamma Ray Burst Coordinates Network, a system by which Gamma-Ray Burst information is relayed from the first responding observatory to the rest of the GRB community

He was retained in his position at the observatory and was made president of the commission appointed to regulate the new system of weights and measures.

The observatory is affiliated with the University of North Carolina system through the Pisgah Astronomical Research and Science Educational Center ( PARSEC ) and also hosts research and study programs with Furman University, Clemson University, Virginia Tech, South Carolina State University and Duke University.

The observatory was carried into orbit in May 2009, reaching the second Lagrangian point ( L2 ) of the Earth-Sun system, from the Earth, about two months later.

It contains an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, a boating lake, an animal farm, a pitch and putt course, a golf driving range, woodlands, ornamental gardens, an observatory, an adventure playground, a Papal Monument and a volunteer-run tramway system and museum ( operational every Sunday, and bank holiday, afternoon during the summer months ).

The observatory has been used to perform professional astronomy research, such as orbit determination of small solar system bodies in the early 1900s, and supernova surveys in the 1980s and 1990s.

They constructed the first electromechanical telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen.

Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory, and with Weber founded the " Magnetischer Verein " ( magnetic club in German ), which supported measurements of Earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world.

In 1258, when both North China and the Islamic world were part of the Mongol Empire, Hulagu Khan established an observatory in Maragheh for the astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi at which a few Chinese astronomers were present, resulting in the Chinese-Uighur calendar that al-Tusi describes in his Zij-i Ilkhani.

As president, he had proposed a national observatory, which did not win much support.

In 1825 Adams signed a bill for the creation of a national observatory just before leaving presidential office – which became the Naval Observatory.

He tried to create a national observatory, which became the U. S. Naval Observatory.

He became director of the Berlin observatory in 1786, from which he retired in 1825.

The observatory sites are under lease from the Tohono O ' odham Nation at the amount of a quarter dollar per acre yearly, which was overwhelmingly approved by the Council in the 1950s.

Rundetårn, or round tower, in Copenhagen, on top of which the university had its observatory from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century, when it was moved to new premises.

Constance Lowell, Percival Lowell's widow, subsequently embroiled the observatory in a long legal battle to secure its million-dollar portion of Lowell's legacy for herself, which meant that the search for Planet X could not resume for several years.

Beginning in the winter of 1893-94, using his wealth and influence, Lowell dedicated himself to the study of astronomy, founding the observatory which bears his name.

Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.

As it covered only the northern sky and some of the south ( being compiled from the Bonn observatory ), this was then supplemented by the Südliche Durchmusterung ( SD ), which covers stars between declinations-1 and-23 degrees

Super-Kamiokande ( full name: Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment, abbreviated to Super-K or SK ) is a neutrino observatory which is under Mount Kamioka near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

A space observatory is any instrument ( such as a telescope ) in outer space which is used for observation of distant planets, galaxies, and other outer space objects.

He spent many nights at the observatory with Maury, watching and charting the stars, which had always been one of Adams ' avocations.

GMT is now often called Universal Time, which is now calculated from observations of extra-galactic radio sources, and then converted into several forms, including UT0 ( UT at the remote observatory ), UT1 ( UT corrected for polar motion ), and UTC ( UT in discrete SI seconds within 0. 9 s of UT1 ).

Among the institutions connected with the university are the national institution for East Indian languages, ethnology and geography ; the botanical gardens, founded in 1587 ; the observatory ( 1860 ); the museum of antiquities ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ); and the ethnographical museum, of which P. F. von Siebold's Japanese collections was the nucleus ( Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde ).

Third Court is entered through Shrewsbury Tower, which from 1765 to 1859 housed an observatory.

During the eighteenth century, the figure of the priest, mathematician and botanist José Celestino Mutis ( 1732 – 1808 ), was delegated by the Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Gongora to conduct an inventory of the nature of the Nueva Granada, which became known as the Botanical Expedition, which classified plants, wildlife and founded the first astronomical observatory in the city of Santa Fé de Bogotá.