* 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Sweden.

It is divided in three parts: the observatory and library, the chapel and the living part.

It is famous for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting.

The view that Henry's court rapidly grew into the technological base for exploration, with a naval arsenal and an observatory, etc., is believed by some historians, though not actually proven.

The Kitt Peak National Observatory ( KPNO ) is a United States astronomical observatory site located on 2, 096 m ( 6, 880 ft ) Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O ' odham Nation, southwest of Tucson.

The observatory is administered by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory ( NOAO ).

Lowell is buried on Mars Hill near his observatory.

Contrary to popular belief there is no evidence that Regiomontanus ever erected an observatory, however he did found the world's first scientific printing press and in 1472 he published the first printed astronomical textbook, the Theoricae novae Planetarum of his teacher Georg von Peurbach.

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory ( SNO ) is a neutrino observatory located 6, 800 feet ( about 2 km ) underground in Vale Inco's Creighton Mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

The observatory is located at the end of a long drift, named the " SNO drift ", isolating it from other mining operations.

The observatory is the site of first contact between humans and Neanderthals in the Neanderthal Parallax science fiction series by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer.

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.

For example, X-ray astronomy is nearly impossible when done from the Earth, and has reached its current importance in astronomy only due to orbiting X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory and the XMM-Newton observatory.

Cooke and Wheatstone's electric telegraphThe more anecdotal version told in Göttingen observatory is that the first message was sent to notify Weber that the observatory's servant was on the way to the institute of physics, and just read " Michelmann kommt " (" Michelmann is on his way "), possibly as a test who would arrive first.

Toruń is equipped with a planetarium ( located downtown ) and an astronomical observatory ( located in nearby community of Piwnice ).

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.

* A stone tower astronomical observatory named Cheomseongdae is constructed in Silla ( southern Korea ) around this time.

* Poltava gravimetric observatory ( PGO ) is situated a bit north from city centre ( 27 – 29 Miasoyedov St .).

In former times, before the distribution of accurate time signals, it was part of the routine work at any observatory to observe the sidereal times of meridian transit of selected ' clock stars ' ( of well-known position and movement ), and to use these to correct observatory clocks running local mean sidereal time ; but nowadays local sidereal time is usually generated by computer, based on time signals.

In July 2011 the visitor centre and observatory hosted " Jodrell Bank Live "-a rock concert with bands including The Flaming Lips, British Sea Power, Wave Machines, OK GO and Alice Gold.

In addition, other instruments and projects have been hosted at the observatory, such as the Palomar Testbed Interferometer and the historic 18-inch Schmidt telescope (), Palomar Observatory's first telescope, dating from 1936.

The 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle, a romantic comedy partially inspired by An Affair to Remember, climaxes with a scene at the Empire State observatory.

Fair Isle has a permanent bird observatory, founded by George Waterston in 1948.

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

Kitt Peak was selected by its first director, Aden B. Meinel, in 1958 as the site for a national observatory under contract with the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) and was administered by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

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.

* Daily, there are three tours that are guided by staff, speaking about the history of the observatory as well as touring a major research telescope.

He was rewarded by admission to the Academy and the appointment of mathematical professor in Mazarin college, where he worked in a small observatory fitted for his use.

Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.

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

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.

The principal meridian of that observatory was chosen in 1884 by the International Meridian Conference to be the Prime Meridian.

* 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.

In 1558 the first German observatory was built in Kassel, followed in 1604 by the Ottoneum, the first permanent German theatre building.

The observatory was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August.

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.

The central high point of the citadel rises like a giant natural obelisk complete with a military observation post at the top, with a giant cross at its apex ; at the foot of the observatory lies St. George's church, in a classical style punctuated by six Doric columns, as opposed to the Byzantine architectural style of the greater part of Greek Orthodox churches.

The observatory was initiated in 1879 by the banker Raphaël Bischoffsheim.

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.

However, the observatory was destroyed by religious fanatics in 1449.