* 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.

Initially located downtown at in Foggy Bottom ( near the Lincoln Memorial ), the observatory moved in 1893 to its present location on a 2000-foot circle of land atop Observatory Hill overlooking Massachusetts Avenue.

The summit observatory, which is located at an altitude of, is an important scientific measuring station operated by the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The Midtown observatory is located on the top of The Science Building.

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

* Missouri University of Science and Technology has a half-scale Stonehenge replica built from solid granite located on campus, as well as an astronomical observatory and an operational nuclear reactor, which was the state's first.

In the vaulted basement below the observatory, a University-administered museum is located.

On the orthodromic distance line from the Saint Michael church to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are located the jubilee column on the Schlossplatz in Stuttgart and the Kokino observatory.

* The oldest astronomical public observatory in the country is located in the former farm dependencies of the abbey.

There are three other active telescopes located at the observatory ; the Mark II, as well as and 7 m diameter radio telescopes.

The site of the observatory, which includes the Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre and an arboretum, is located in the civil parish of Lower Withington ( the rest being in Goostrey civil parish ), near Goostrey and Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, North West England.

Stjerneborg (" Star Castle " in English ) was Tycho Brahe's underground observatory next to his palace-observatory Uraniborg, located on the island of Hven in Oresund.

The Observatoire de Nice ( Nice Observatory ) is an astronomical observatory located in Nice, France on the summit of Mont Gros.

There is also a brasserie-style buffet located one floor above the main observatory level.

Palomar Observatory is a privately owned astronomical observatory located in San Diego County, California ( USA ), southeast of Los Angeles, California, in the Palomar Mountain Range.

There is a separate, nighttime observatory, Apache Point Observatory, located nearby.

The Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory ( FCRAO ) was a radio astronomy observatory located on a peninsula in the Quabbin Reservoir.

The McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States.

The Pine Bluff Observatory ( PBO ) is an astronomical observatory located in the town of Cross Plains, Wisconsin ( USA ) about west of Madison.

The Apache Point Observatory ( APO ) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico ( USA ) approximately south of Cloudcroft.

A 2 meter telescope, known as the Bernard Lyot Telescope was placed at the observatory in 1980 on top of a 28 meter column built off to the side to avoid wind turbulence affecting the seeing of the other telescopes.

Sadler is sent to the Moon's main astronomical observatory located near the crater of Plato as a tip off has suggested that information is being routed through that location.

Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory is a bird observatory on Bardsey Island, off the Welsh coast.

The final part of the debt from the construction of the telescope, £ 50, 000, was paid off by Lord Nuffield and the Nuffield Foundation on 25 May 1960 ( partly due to the telescope's early, very public role in space probe tracking ; see below ), and Jodrell Bank observatory was renamed to the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories.

The observatory has fought off several attempts to close the facility by the State Government, the most serious being in 1987 when it was part of the Department of State Services.

"( To the king ): Oh Ravivarmadeva ( Sthanu Ravi Varman ), now deign to tell us quickly, reading off from the armillary sphere installed ( at the observatory ) in Mahodayapuram, duly fitted with all the relevant circles and with the sign (- degree-minute ) markings, the time of the rising point of the ecliptic ( lagna ) when the Sun is at 10 ° in the Sign of Capricorn, and also when the Sun is at the end of the Sign Libra, which I have noted.

The three set off in a crystal ship from an abandoned observatory in Scotland but Maskull awakens to find himself alone on Tormance.