This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and location. The list also includes a final year …

2023年8月17日 · Michigan State University (MSU) found the foundations of its first telescope observatory building, built in 1881. Workers stumbled upon the archaeology while installing …

1774 – Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana), originally established as the Observatory of the Roman College. 1839 Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (inventor of the daguerreotype …

In 1609, a polymath in Pisa built a rudimentary telescope and pointed it at the moon’s distant, luminous surface. Galileo Galilei was the first person in history to use such a tool, and it...

It houses one of the oldest working telescopes in the world and was the first public observatory in the western hemisphere. Recently restored to its original beauty, the Observatory is a fully …

2024年3月26日 · Inside the dome of Yerkes Observatory, tucked along the shore of Wisconsin’s Geneva Lake, in the town of Williams Bay, it is emphatically 1897. The still-rotating metal half …

Constructed in 1877, the Washburn Observatory (now often referred to by long-time Madisonians as the “Old Observatory”) was one of the most important astronomical observatories west of …

Palomar Observatory is among the most iconic scientific facilities in the world, and a crown jewel in the research traditions of Caltech. Conceived of nearly 100 years ago, the observatory has …

2015年12月14日 · Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory. The Old Observatory of Leiden is the oldest university...

2019年8月15日 · From 1840 to 1855, Fitz made 80 percent of all astronomical telescopes sold in the United States. His smaller refractors (those with lenses 4 inches in diameter or less) …