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IAU Code
This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, ''see observations of small Solar System bodies''. List References {{DEFAULTSORT:Observatory codes Astronomical observatories, * Astronomy-related lists Technology-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Function The Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data for minor planets (such as asteroids), calculating their orbits and publishing this information via the '' Minor Planet Circulars''. Under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which is part of the Center for Astrophysics along with the Harvard College Observatory. The MPC runs a number of free online services for observers to assist them in observing minor planets and comets. The complete catalogue of minor planet orbits (sometimes referred to as the "Minor Planet Catalogue") may also be freely downloaded. In addition to astrometric data, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory
The Sternwarte Düsseldorf (a.k.a. Sternwarte Bilk, Sternwarte Charlottenruhe; Bilk Observatory or Düsseldorf-Bilk Observatory in English) in Düsseldorf-Bilk was a private observatory founded in 1843 by Johann Friedrich Benzenberg. The observatory's main feature was a refracting telescope with 1800mm focal length. After Benzenberg's death the observatory was bequeathed to the city of Düsseldorf. It was destroyed by bombing in 1943. Between 1852 and 1890, C. Robert Luther discovered 24 asteroids there, from Thetis, discovered on April 17, 1852, to Glauke, discovered February 20, 1890. These asteroids and planetoids are called ''the 24 Düsseldorf planets''. The asteroid 4425 Bilk is named in honour of the observatory. Near its original location, a benchmark was erected, displaying the observatory's burnt-out telescope. File:bst-close.jpg, Benchmark File:bst-durch.jpg, view through the tube File:bst-dist.jpg, front view File:bst-schild.jpg, information plate See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Monte Mario Observatory
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The Monte Mario Observatory (Sede di Monte Mario, literally "Site of Monte Mario") is an astronomical observatory and is administratively part of the Observatory of Rome (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma). It is located atop Monte Mario, near the right bank of the river Tiber, in the municipality of Rome, Italy. This location (12°27'8.4"E ) was used as the prime meridian (rather than that of Greenwich) for maps of Italy until the 1960s. See also * List of astronomical observatories ReferencesAstronomical observatories in Italy Monte Mario Monte Mario (English: Mount Mario or Mount Marius) is the hill that rises in the north-west area of Rome (Italy), on the right bank of the Tiber, crossed by the Via Trionfale. It occupies part of Balduina, of the territory of Municipio I, Munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Karl Schwarzschild Observatory
The Karl Schwarzschild Observatory (Officially: ''Thuringia State Observatory Tautenburg'') is a German astronomy, astronomical observatory in Tautenburg near Jena, Thuringia. It is owned and operated as under public law by the Thuringia, State of Thuringia. It was founded in 1960 as an affiliated institute of the former German Academy of Sciences at Berlin in GDR and named in honour of the astronomer and physicist Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916). In 1992, the institute was re-established as ''Thuringian State Observatory'' (''Thüringer Landessternwarte'', TLS). Observatory The observatory has the largest telescope located in Germany, which is also the largest Schmidt camera in the world. Made by Carl Zeiss AG, VEB Zeiss Jena (the branch of Carl Zeiss located in Jena in what was then East Germany), this instrument is known as Alfred Jensch Telescope: though its mirror is 2 metres in diameter, the telescope's aperture is 1.34 m. The observatory has observed several exoplanets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jena Observatory
Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitäts-Sternwarte Jena (AIU Jena, Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory Jena, or simply Jena Observatory) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. It has two main locations in Jena, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ... and the neighbouring village of Großschwabhausen. History The first observatory was built in 1813, and replaced by a bigger one in 1889. It was funded by local regent Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and planned by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Its most famous director in the later decades was Ernst Abbe. The new observatory in Großschwabhausen was built in 1962, in order to avoid the light pollution from the city of Jena. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sonneberg Observatory
Sonneberg Observatory () is an astronomical observatory located at 638 m altitude on Erbisbühl in the Neufang district of Sonneberg, Germany. The observatory was founded in 1925 on the initiative of Cuno Hoffmeister by the town of Sonneberg with the support of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The observatory carries out long-term studies of variable stars. To this end the sky is monitored continuously through photography, resulting in one of the largest archives of astronomical plates. The observatory was also always engaged in popularising astronomy, which now continues in the Astronomy Museum on site. Scientific work The original observing programme was the ''Sonneberg Field Patrol'', which was begun in 1924 by Cuno Hoffmeister and ran until 1995. 41 fields of view along the northern Milky Way were photographed repeatedly at every opportunity. The instrument initially was a 170 mm/1200 mm Zeiss triplet lens. In 1935 a 400 mm/1600 mm quad-lens astrogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Arcetri Observatory
The Arcetri Observatory () is an astrophysical observatory located in the hilly area of Arcetri on the outskirts of Florence, Italy. It is located close to Villa Il Gioiello, the residence of Galileo Galilei from 1631 to 1642. Observatory staff carry out theoretical and observational astronomy as well as designing and constructing astronomical instrumentation. The observatory has been heavily involved with the following instrumentation projects: * The MMT 6.5 m telescope * The LBT 2x 8.4 m telescopes * The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo The Galileo National Telescope, (; TNG; code: Z19) is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The TNG is operated by the "Fundación Galileo Galil ... 3.5 m telescope * The VLT telescope adaptive secondary mirror * The 1.5 m Gornergrat Infrared Telescope (TIRGO) See also * List of solar telescopes References External links Osservatorio A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hamburg Observatory
Hamburg Observatory () is an astronomical observatory located in the Bergedorf borough of the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. It is owned and operated by the University of Hamburg, Germany since 1968, although it was founded in 1825 by the City of Hamburg and moved to its present location in 1912. It has operated telescopes at Bergedorf, at two previous locations in Hamburg, at other observatories around the world, and it has also supported space missions. The largest near-Earth object was discovered at this Observatory by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg on 23 October 1924. That asteroid, 1036 Ganymed is about 20 miles (35 km) in diameter. The Hamburg 1-meter Reflector Telescope, reflector telescope (first light 1911) was one of the biggest telescopes in Europe at that time, and by some measures the fourth largest in the World. The Observatory also has an old style Great Refractor (a ''Großen Refraktor''), a long telescope with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brera Astronomical Observatory
The Brera Observatory () is an astronomical observatory in the Brera (district of Milan), Brera district of Milan, Italy. It was built in the historic Palazzo Brera in 1764 by the Jesuit astronomer Roger Boscovich. Following the suppression of the Jesuits by Clement XIV on 21 July 1773, the palace and the observatory passed to the then rulers of northern Italy, the Austrian Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg dynasty. From 1 December 1786, the Austrian Empire adopted “transalpine time”. The astronomers were engaged by Count Giuseppe Di Wilczek, the plenipotentiary governor of Lombardy, to build a meridian line inside Milan Cathedral. It was constructed by Giovanni Angelo Cesaris and Francesco Reggio, with Roger Joseph Boscovich acting as a consultant. Following the incorporation of Milan into the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the observatory has been run by the Italian government. In 1862, the newly installed Italian government improved the observatory's facilities by commissioning a 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Zimmerwald Observatory
The Zimmerwald Observatory () is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the AIUB, the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern. Built in 1956, it is located at Zimmerwald, 10 kilometers south of Bern, Switzerland. Numerous comets and asteroids have been discovered by Paul Wild (1925–2014) at Zimmerwald Observatory, most notably comet 81P/Wild, which was visited by NASA's Stardust space probe in 2004. The main belt asteroid 1775 Zimmerwald has been named after the location of the observatory. The 1-meter aperture ZIMLAT telescope was inaugurated in 1997. See also * List of largest optical reflecting telescopes This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with Objective (optics), objective diameters of or greater is sorted by aperture, which is a measure of the light-gathering power and resolution of a reflecting telescope. The mirrors themse ... * Swiss Space Office References External links Zimmerwald Observatory Astronomical ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Stuttgart Observatory
Stuttgart Observatory (; MPC 025) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the volunteer association Schwäbische Sternwarte e.V. It is located on the hill Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart, Germany. The Observatory is accessible to the public since 1922. History On the Initiative of the astronomer and author Robert Henseling, the astronomic association Schwäbische Sternwarte e.V. was founded in 1919. The purposes for the newfound association were, and still are, to spread and explain astronomical knowledge to a broad public and to provide support for the Planetarium Stuttgart. To gather enough monetary funds for the construction of the Observatory at the site it still is today, even such famous guest speakers as Albert Einstein followed the invitation to give a speech about astronomy and donate the revenue to the Schwäbische Sternwarte e.V.. The construction of the observatory, designed by Wilhelm Jost, took place in 1921. Already in early January 1922 the associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory () is a historic astronomical observatory located near the summit of the Königstuhl hill in the city of Heidelberg in Germany. It is operated by the ''Center for Astronomy (ZAH)'' at the University of Heidelberg. The predecessor of the current observatory was originally opened in 1774 in the nearby city of Mannheim but degradation of observational conditions there resulted in a relocation to the Königstuhl in 1898. The Observatory facility have little value for current astronomical research of ZAH; research is done with the Gama Ray H.E.S.S in Namibia and ESO facilitys in Chile. Andreas Quirrenbach is the observatory's director since 2005. History The instrumentation of the observatory originated from the Mannheim Observatory, founded in 1774. In 1880, the observatory was provisionally moved to Karlsruhe because the astronomical/atmospherical seeing conditions worsened. In subsequent years, three other locations were considered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |