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The observatory of Anders Celsius, from a contemporary engraving.
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* Anders Celsius's former house and observatory
The house of Anders Celsius with his observatory on the roof, from a contemporary engraving.
In the 18th century, Anders Celsius performed his research there and built the first observatory proper in 1741.
In the 19th century Anders Jonas Ångström was keeper of the observatory and conducted his experiments in astronomy, physics and optics there.
observatory and Celsius
Celsius ' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala.
Celsius managed to get the university consistory to buy a large stone house of medieval origin in central Uppsala, where he had an observatory constructed on the rooftop.
The Celsius house itself still remains as one of few older buildings on a modern shopping street, but the observatory on the roof was demolished in 1857.
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Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.
Measurements of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > from the Mauna Loa observatory show that concentrations have increased from about 313 ppm in 1960 to about 389 ppm in 2010.
Hourly time signals from Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast on 5 February 1924, rendering the time ball at the observatory obsolete in the process.
On February 4, 1600, Kepler met Tycho Brahe and his assistants Franz Tengnagel and Longomontanus at Benátky nad Jizerou ( 35 km from Prague ), the site where Tycho's new observatory was being constructed.
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.
The project followed SARA astronomers from Ball State University to the observatory and featured time-lapse images from various points around Kitt Peak.
Image: Kitt Peak National Observatory-400 ° panorama taken from the Mayall 4-meter observatory. jpg | 400 ° panorama from Kitt Peak's Mayall 4-meter Observatory
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.
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.
In 1925, the observatory obtained glass discs for a new 13-inch wide-field telescope to continue the search, constructed with funds from George Lowell, Percival's brother.
In 2371, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D receives a distress call from a solar observatory.
On leaving the University of Oxford, in 1676, Edmond Halley visited Saint Helena and set up an observatory with a aerial telescope with the intention of studying stars from the Southern Hemisphere.
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 observatory is located at the end of a long drift, named the " SNO drift ", isolating it from other mining operations.
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.
Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems.
* Poltava gravimetric observatory ( PGO ) is situated a bit north from city centre ( 27 – 29 Miasoyedov St .).
* 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.
observatory and contemporary
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.
Kapteyn later retired in 1921 at the age of seventy, but on the request of his former student and director of Leiden Observatory Willem de Sitter, Kapteyn went back to Leiden to assist in upgrading the observatory to contemporary astronomical standards.
He lived in different cities as Turin, Venice and Milan directing the observatory ManifatturAE ; he directs the contemporary season Dissection in Teatro Fondamenta Nuove ( Venice ) and the Festival Torino Poesia ( Turin ).
Miss Digital World The Calendar 2007 is meant to be the only true “ Anti-Pirelli ”, the product that has always been considered an observatory over contemporary Beauty and its representation.
Other attractions include a multimedia program, wildlife artwork, a reconstructed study with murals by renowned painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a smaller second-floor observatory, and the Adelson Library which contains historical and contemporary ornithological materials, including an extensive collection of monographs and journals.
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Taqi al-Din measured the right ascension of the stars at the Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din using the " observational clock " he invented.
* 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Sweden.
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.
It is divided in three parts: the observatory and library, the chapel and the living part.
The observatory was equipped with instruments purchased during his long voyage abroad, comprising the most modern instrumental technology of the period.
" El Caracol " a possible observatory temple at Chichen Itza. The Temple of the Warriors bears iconography depicting feathered serpents associated with Quetzalcoatl or Kukulcan.
From 1869 to 1872, he was employed as an Assistant in Harvard's astronomical observatory, doing important work on determining the brightness of stars and the shape of the Milky Way.
Thus he sought a position in astronomy, and in 1807 was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Director of the astronomical observatory in Göttingen, a post he held for the remainder of his life.
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.
It is famous for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting.
Fair Isle has a permanent bird observatory, founded by George Waterston in 1948.
The first Director of the observatory was Kenneth Williamson.
He did employ some cartographers to chart the coast of Mauritania after the voyages he sent there, but there was no center of navigation science or observatory in the modern sense of the word, nor was there an organized navigational center.
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.
In the fall of 2006, researchers developed and installed an " autonomous observatory " using robotic video cameras with image processing software that detects and records high resolution video of birds in flight inside a high probability zone in the Cache River area.
In his first annual message to Congress, Adams presented an ambitious program for modernization that included roads, canals, a national university, an astronomical observatory, and other initiatives.
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