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The Gifford Observatory is an astronomical observation facility located in Wellington, New Zealand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gifford Observatory"
Hamburg Observatory or Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Hamburg. It was built in 1909 and officially dedicated in 1912. It is located near Hamburg and Bergedorf, Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hamburg Observatory"
Hoher List Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Astronomical Institute of the University of Bonn. It is located 100 km south of Bonn, Germany, in the mountain range of Eifel. It was built in 1954 and has 6 telescope which were constructed as far back as 1874. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hoher List Observatory"
Hong Kong Observatory ( Chinese: 香港天文台; Yale: hēung góng tīn màhn tòih, Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 tin1 man4 toi4; Mandarin Pinyin: Xiānggǎng Tiānwén Tái), known as the Royal Observatory (Chinese: 皇家香港天文台) before 1997, is a department of the Hong Kong Government. The Observatory forecasts weather and issues warnings on weather-related hazards. It also monitors and makes assessments on radiation levels in Hong Kong and provides other meteorological and geophysical services to meet the needs of the public and the shipping, aviation, industrial and engineering sectors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong Observatory"
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Hradec Králové Observatory is part astronomical observatory and part planetarium. Also housed in the same building are the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. It is located on the southern outskirts of Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic, and was founded in 1961. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hradec Králové Observatory"
Innsbruck Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the institutes of astrophyscis out of the University of Innsbruck. It is located in Innsbruck, Austria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Innsbruck Observatory"
The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes or ING operates the WHT, INT and JKT optical telescopes for PPARC, the NWO and the IAC. The telescopes are located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes"
The Istanbul observatory of al-Din was one of the greatest astronomical observatories ever built in the Islamic world. Sadly, it only existed for a mere two years before it was destroyed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Istanbul observatory of al-Din"
Jena Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. It is located in Jena, Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jena Observatory"
The Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) operates British, Canadian and Dutch telescopes at Mauna Kea Observatory, and provides support for other telescopes and public outreach activities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joint Astronomy Centre"
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Karl Schwarzschild Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the institute of Thüringer Landessternwarte 'Karl Schwarzschild' Tautenburg. It is located 10 kilometers north-east of Jena, Germany, founded in 1960 and named after Karl Schwarzschild. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Schwarzschild Observatory"
Kleť Observatory (Hvězdárna Kleť) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. It is situated in South Bohemia, south of the summit of Mount Kleť near the town of České Budějovice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kleť Observatory"
Konkoly Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It is located in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1871 by Miklos Konkoly-Thege as his private observatory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Konkoly Observatory"
Kopernik Space Center is an observatory founded in 1974 in Vestal, New York, where kids can learn about astronomy and science, named after the famous Polish astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus in Latin). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kopernik Space Center"
The Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was a national facility operated by NASA to support research in infrared astronomy. The observation platform was a highly modified C-141A jet transport aircraft with a range of 6000 nautical miles, capable of conducting research operations up to 45,000 feet (14 km). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kuiper Airborne Observatory"
Kyung Hee Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Kyung Hee University. It is located in Seoul, South Korea. It was the first observatory in the nation to discover a variable star, later named the Kyung Hee Star. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyung Hee Astronomical Observatory"
The Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht Leiden) is an astronomical observatory in the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. It was established by the Leiden University in 1633, ...more on Wikipedia about "Leiden Observatory"
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The Leviathan of Parsonstown is a telescope located at Birr Castle. It is a 72-inch telescope and was the largest in the world when constructed in 1845 until the construction of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1917. The telescope itself was dismantled in 1914. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leviathan of Parsonstown"
LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever, of Caltech and Rainer Weiss, of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scientists at MIT and Caltech. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). At the cost of $365 million (in 2002 USD), it has been the largest and most ambitious project ever funded by NSF (and still is as of 2004). The international LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a growing group of researchers, some 400 individuals at roughly 40 institutions, working to analyze the data from LIGO and other detectors, and working toward more sensitive future detectors. ...more on Wikipedia about "LIGO"
(List of observatories) * Ondřejov Observatory (Observatoř Ondřejov) ...more on Wikipedia about "List of observatories"
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is an astronomical observatory located at 5104 m altitude in the Chilean Atacama desert, 50 kilometers to the north of San Pedro de Atacama. It is a very dry site - inhospitable to humans - but an excellent site for submillimetre astronomy. Water vapour absorbs and attenuates submillimetre radiation and thus a dry site is required for this type of high-frequency radio astronomy. It hosts some of the largest and most expensive astronomical telescopes in the world, with about 1 billion US dollars already allocated for projects on the site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Llano de Chajnantor Observatory"
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