#Astronomical observatory

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on the limits of doubt I only have your shadow left

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Construction of the Observatory for the European Extremely Large Telescope in Atacama Desert, Chile.

Credits: https://www.eso.org/public/chile/images/potw2336a/

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[Saturn. Apr 1. 1915. Photographed by Dr. Lowell. Lowell Observatory]

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Ice Cold Blue Planet NEPTUNE 🌐 || Big Blue with Darkness

#neptune #bigblueplanet #trending #neptune #solarsystem #ColdBluePlanetNeptune

To Watch The Video go to my Youtube Channel @InfinityASTRONOMERICA

About the Video :

Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, giant Neptune is the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun. More than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. In 2011, Neptune completed its first 165-year orbit since its discovery. The planet’s rich blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light but allows blue ones to be reflected back into space. Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical calculations. Using predictions sent him by French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier, based on disturbances in the orbit of Uranus, German asstronomer Johann Galle was first to observe the planet in 1846. The planet is named after the Roman god of the sea, as suggested by Le Verrier.

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Yerkes Observatory

Yerkes Observatory, astronomical observatory located at Williams Bay on Lake Geneva in southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. The Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago was named for its benefactor, transportation magnate Charles T. Yerkes, and was opened in 1897. It contains the largest refracting telescope (40 inches [1 metre]) in the world. The refractor has been used for solar and stellar spectroscopy, photographic parallaxes, and double-star observations, while other more modern telescopes at the site have been equipped for photoelectric, polarimetric, and spectroscopic applications.

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Sphinx Observatory

The Sphinx Observatory is an astronomical observatory located above the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland. It is named after the Sphinx, a rocky summit on which it is located. At 3,571 m (11,716 ft) above mean sea level, it is one of the highest observatories in the world.

Photo: @care4art

[angelkarafilli]

The Hill of the Nymphs and the National Observatory of Athens from the Pnyx on July 10, 2019.Greece

Opening:28 June 1842

Photo by George E. Koronaios

Athens Observatory,26 June 1917

(Artlllery during the short period of French occupation of Peireus and Athens,World War I)

Source:Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine

[thegreatseason]

Beautiful Objects

Vera C. Rubin Observatory

An astronomical observatory under construction on top of Cerro Pachón, a mountain in Northern Chile. Rubin Observatory will conduct a 10-year survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky with the goal of answering some of astronomers' biggest questions about the Universe.

Images will be recorded by a 3.2-gigapixel CCD imaging camera, the largest digital camera ever constructed. First light is expected on January 2025.

source: https://rubinobservatory.org/

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Roll Off Roof

Video of roof rolling off and on. I'm pleased with the operation.

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Digitized plates of solar eclipses from the United States Naval Observatory Library & Archives

Locations and years of eclipses:

Pinehurst, North Carolina. May 28, 1900

Limerick, Maine. August 31, 1932

Iloilo, The Philippines. May 9, 1929

Guelma, Algeria. August 30, 1905

Fort De Kock, Sumatra. May 17, 1901

Barnesville, Georgia. May 28, 1900

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the traveling smiles

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Varios Observatorios Astronómicos del Mundo.

Fotografías del Archivo Histórico del Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Chile.

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plate B2312 (1888) showing Orion's belt and the horsehead nebula. Harvard College Observatory's Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection 

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The Observatory of Alexandria with an astronomer measuring the heavens with some instruments (cross staff, mariner’s astrolabe) which actually belong to a much later period (source: Camille Flammarion, L’Astronomie Populaire: Description générale du ciel, Paris: 1880).

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Celebrate Women Astronomers Day with the Yerkes Observatory Records at SCRC! Check out the alt text for the names of the women in this photo from 1921, and learn more at Capturing the Stars.