Observatory

The 10.3-cm observation of Sloanaker was made on May 20, 1958, using the 84-foot reflector at the Maryland Point Observatory of the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Winslow Upton after graduation from Brown University and two years of graduate study, accepted a position at the Harvard Observatory.

For three years he was connected with the U.S. Naval Observatory and with the U.S. Signal Corps ; ;

The " Greenwich Atomic " ( GA ) scale began in 1955 at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

The United States Naval Observatory began the A. 1 scale 13 September 1956, using an Atomichron commercial atomic clock, followed by the NBS-A scale at the National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado.

Scientific explorations include the Challenger expedition, the German Meteor expedition, Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the United States Navy Hydrographic Office.

The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.

* Tim Puckett, the principal investigator of the Puckett Observatory World Supernova Search team, which has discovered over 200 supernovae since 1998.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".

From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

On the demotion of Pluto to the status of dwarf planet, Philip Zarka of the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France wondered how astrologers should respond:

* 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which takes his name.

He was successful in the request, and Celsius founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741.

A simple type of anemometer, invented ( 1846 ) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory.

* Robinson Cup Anemometer-Armagh Observatory

False-color image of the rapidly rotating star Altair, made with the MIRC imager on the CHARA array on Mount Wilson Observatory | Mt.

The angular diameter of Altair was measured interferometrically by R. Hanbury Brown and his co-workers at Narrabri Observatory in the 1960s.

However, an episode of Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections relating to the Keck Observatory ( whose reflector glass is based on the Archimedes ' Mirror ) did successfully use a much smaller curved mirror to burn a wooden model, though not made of the same quality of materials as in the MythBusters effort.

Starting in 1924, Hubble painstakingly developed a series of distance indicators, the forerunner of the cosmic distance ladder, using the Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory.

* Yale University Observatory.

She was mission specialist in charge of deploying the Chandra X-ray Observatory and its Inertial Upper Stage out of the shuttle's cargo bay.

STS-93 on Columbia ( July 22 to 27, 1999 ) was a five-day mission during which Coleman was the lead mission specialist for the deployment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.