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

The observatory and five others in Japan, Italy, Russia, and the United States gathered information that is still used by scientists today, along with information from satellites, to determine polar motion ; the size, shape, and physical properties of the earth ; and to aid the space program through the precise navigational patterns of orbiting satellites.

A large wall, 75 meters on a side and 5. 5 meters high was planned to surround Uraniborg, but never built, instead a high earth mound was constructed and lasted until today being the only remnant of the observatory still in place.

He built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool with a reflector telescope, for which he pioneered the use of an equatorial mount for easy tracking of objects as the earth rotates.

It comprises over 60 separate buildings, large and small, including a 3-story administration building, living quarters, power plant, sewage treatment facility, environmental science building, observatory, data processing facility, satellite building, ionospheric station, incinerator, earth science building, and radiosonde station.

Amongst some of the visionary masters at this time was Mr Arthur Bowden who taught math, but more notably had the enthusiasm to have a small astronomical observatory built in the grounds, although he also famously declared in 1958 that it was " mathematically impossible for any space-craft to leave the gravitational pull of the earth ".

The amateur astronomers at the observatory have discovered more than 40 asteroids and participate in the tracking of near earth asteroids.

The observatory consists of fourteen major geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars ' location as the earth orbits around the sun, ascertaining the declinations of planets, and determining the celestial altitudes and related ephemerides.

Hoffmeister remained at the observatory until his death, even though the observatory lost most of its equipment after the second world war and he was disowned as the observatory became part of East Germany's academy of sciences.

He directed the preparation of the star maps of the Academy ( 1830 – 1859 ); beginning in 1830, he edited and greatly improved the Astronomisches Jahrbuch ; and he issued four volumes of the Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der Sternwarte zu Berlin ( Observations of the Berlin observatory, 1840 – 1857 ).

Between 1830 and 1839, Lee built an astronomical observatory in the south-west corner of Hartwell House.

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

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

* 3300 – 2900 BC — Construction of the Newgrange solar observatory / passage tomb in Ireland.

* Hubble Space Telescope – biggest orbital observatory

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

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.

* Coral World Underwater Observatory – Located at the southern tip of Coral Beach, the observatory has aquaria, a museum, simulation rides, and shark, turtle and stingray tanks.

He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana.

* SOHO – 2 December 1995 – Solar observatory

In 1073, the Seljuq Sultan Jalal al-Din Malik-Shah Saljuqi ( Malik-Shah I, 1072 – 92 ), invited Khayyám to build an observatory, along with various other distinguished scientists.

* Griffith J. Griffith ( 1850 – 1919 ), park and observatory donor

He was invited to run a small observatory in East Grinstead at the age of fourteen, after his mentor – the man who ran the observatory – was killed in a road accident.

The Danish survey was then in progress, and he acted as Schumacher's assistant in work connected with it, chiefly at the new observatory of Altona, 1821 – 1825.

Having become assistant to Carlos Guillermo Moesta ( 1825 – 1884 ), director of the observatory at Santiago de Chile, in 1859, he was associated with the Chilean geodesic survey in 1864.

H. C. Schumacher's nephew, Christian Andreas Schumacher ( 1810 – 1854 ), was associated with the geodetic survey of Denmark from 1833 to 1838, and afterwards ( 1844 – 1845 ) improved the observatory at Pulkowa.

The 77 cm ( 30. 3 inch ) refractor telescope made by Henry and Gautier became operational around 1886 – 1887, was the largest in a privately funded observatory, and the first at such high altitude ( above sea level ).

* The astronomers Sir William Huggins and his wife Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, had a home and observatory known as Huggins ' Observatory from about 1850 until 1915 at 90 Upper Tulse Hill.

At the end of 1850 the great transit circle of 203 mm ( 8 inch ) aperture and 3. 5 m ( 11 ft 6 in ) focal length was erected, and is still the principal instrument of its class at the observatory.

At the observatory in the Museum Gardens, York there is a working 4-inch telescope, built for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1850.

The draft script's opening sequence took place on the solar observatory with two Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-influenced characters talking shortly before the Romulans ' attack ; Next Generation writer Jeri Taylor suggested that the opening should be something " fun ", leading to the switch to a holodeck promotion-at-sea.

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

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.

This observatory remained in use until the new observatory, now known as the " old observatory ", was built in 1853.

The observatory makes prominent use of the slogan " Home of the World's Worst Weather ", a claim that originated with a 1940 article by Charles Brooks ( the man generally given the majority of credit for creating the Mount Washington Observatory ), titled " The Worst Weather In the World " ( even though the article concluded that Mt Washington most likely did not have the world's worst weather ).

There is a hotel, two restaurants, an observatory, a research station, a small cinema, a ski school, and the " Ice Palace ", a collection of elaborate ice sculptures.

In May 1831 the first wooden meteorological observatory, " Griffin's Tower ", was built on the summit by students.

The 1965 plates included a note " Pluto image elongated ", but observatory astronomers, including Christy, assumed that the plates were defective until 1978.

The urban area around the observatory is known as Tähtelä, which translates as " Place of Stars ", although the observatory does not look at stars.

Their settlement features an observatory and serves as a research facility for those who wish to participate in a philosophy known as the " Study of Planet Life ", a lifestyle that encourages deference for nature and teaches that the Planet has a life and energy of its own.

and " The Tulse Hill observatory diaries ",

Known as " Big Ear ", the observatory was part of The Ohio State University's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) project.

and his " The Red Lions ", a dining club for younger members of the British Association, ( named after the tavern where the first meeting was held ), had occasion to run up to the observatory of Calton Hill for astronomical studies.

Near the town itself and about a 30 minutes drive away from the main square several attractions can be found, an ostrich farm, a museum ( El Fósil ) and an old astronomic observatory made of phallic stones (" El Infiernito ", for " little hell " in Spanish ).

* Dinsmore Alter & Clarence H. Cleminshaw, " Palomar observatory ", Los Angeles, Griffith Observatory.

" Centenary of a solar observatory ", retrieved 3 / 13 / 2007

*" George Madeira and his observatory ", Astronomical Association of California