Astronomy, Basics, Observatories

Astronomy: Observatories

Aerological Observatory, Russia (f.1912)    
                1913-1914 Alexander Friedmann
Allegheny, Pittsburgh (f.1859)       
                1891-1898 James Edward Keeler
                1915-1918 Robert Julius Trumpler
                1920-1930 Heber Doust Curtis
Armagh, Northern Ireland (f.1789)
                1947-1981 Ernst Julius Opik
Astrophysical, Potsdam, Germ. (f.1871)        
                1874-1907 Hermann Carl Vogel
Berlin, Germany (f.1700) 
                1835-1851 Johann Gottfried Galle
Bogenhausen, Germany (f.1815)    
                1835 Johann Lamont
Bothkamp, Germany (f.1869)          
                1870-1874 Hermann Carl Vogel
Cairo, Egypt (f.1120)         
                1120 al- Amir bi Ahkam Allah
Cape Observatory, South Africa (f.1820)      
                1897-1899 Willem de Sitter
Cincinnati, Ohio (f.1842) 
                1868-1873 Cleveland Abbe
Finnish (f.1819), Turku®Helsinki               
                1823-1637 F.W.A Argelander
George Bishop’s, London (f.1936)  
                1851 Norman Robert Pogson
Gottingen, Germany (f.1816)           
                1901-1909 Karl Schwarzschild
Hamburg, Bergedorf (f.1909)          
                1919-31 Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade
Hartwell Observatory, England (f.1831)        
                1859 Norman Robert Pogson
Harvard College (f.1839), Massachusetts     
                1877-1919 Edward Charles Pickering
                1893 Henrietta Swan Leavitt
                1921-1952 Harlow Shapley
                1924-1925 Georges Edouard Lemaitre
                1930-1934 Ernst Julius Opik
                1958-1960 Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs
Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Germany (f.1898)   
                1898 Maximilian Wolf
Herrevad Abbey, Sweden (f.1571)   
                1571 Tycho Brahe
                Istanbul, European Turkey, (f.1575)
                1575 Taqi al- Din
Jodrell Bank, England (f.1951)
                1951-80 Bernard Lovell
Konigsberg, Russia (f.1810)            
                1810-1846 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
                1820 Argelander
Leiden, Netherlands (f.1633)           
                1875-1877 Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
                1919-1934 Willem de Sitter
Lick, California (f.1888)  
                1887-1895 Edward Emerson Barnard
                1888-1891 James Edward Keeler
                1898-1900 James Edward Keeler
                1902-1820 Heber Doust Curtis
                1918-1938 Robert Julius Trumpler
                1921-1922 Knut Emil Lundmark
Lilienthal. Lower Saxony (f.1782)  
                1806-1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Lowell, Arizona (f.1894)
                1894 Percival Lowell
                1901-1909 Vesto Melvin Slipher
                1929-1843 Clyde William Tombaugh
                1957-1958 Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs
Lund, Sweden (f.1741)       
                1929-1955 Knut Emil Lundmark
Madras, Madras, SE India (f.1786) 
                1861-1891 Norman Robert Pogson
Main Geophysical, Leningrad (f.1849)          
                1920-1925 Alexander Friedmann
Maragha, Iran (f.1259)
                1259 al-Tusi,
Meudon, France (f.1876)   
                1875 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen
Mount Stromlo, Australia (f.1924) 
                1951-57 Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs
Mount Wilson, California (f.1904)
                1912-1946 Adriaan Van Maanen
                1914-1921 Harlow Shapley
                1919-1953 Edwin Powell Hubble
                1919-1954 Milton La Salle Humason
                1921-1923 Knut Emil Lundmark
                1931-58 Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade
                1937-1968 Fritz Zwicky
                1952-97 Allan Rex Sandage
Naples, Italy (f.1819)         
                1817 Giuseppe Piazzi
Palermo, Sicily (f.1790)    
                1791 Giuseppe Piazzi
Palomar, California (f.1928)            
                1937-1968 Fritz Zwicky
                1952-1997 Allan Rex Sandage
Panzano, Italy (f.1638)      
                1648-1650 Geovanni Domenico Cassini
Paris, France (f. 1667)      
                1671-1712 Geovanni Domenico Cassini
                1672-1681 Ole Christensen Romer
                1854-1870 Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier
                1873-1877 Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier
Potsdam Astrophysical, Germany (f.1871)   
                1909-1914 Karl Schwarzschild
Pulkovo, St Petersburg, (f.1838)    
                1839 Wilhelm von Struve
                1865-1866 Cleveland Abbe
Radcliffe, Oxford (f.1773) 
                1853 Norman Robert Pogson
Royal, Cape of Good Hope (f.1820)  
                1831-1833 Thomas Henderson
Royal Greenwich, England (f.1675)
                1675-1719 John Flamsteed
                1952-1956 Thomas Gold
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (f.1420)    
                1420 Ulugh Beg
Stjerneborg, Sweden (f.1576)          
                1576 Tycho Brahe
Stockholm, Sweden (f.1752)            
1842 Anders Jonas Angstrom
                1927 Bertil Lindblad
Tartu Estonia (f.1810)       
                1813-1839 Wilhelm von Struve
Ujjain, India (12th century)              
                1185 Bhaskara
Uppsala, Sweden (f.1741)  
                1843 Anders Jonas Angstrom
                1920-1929 Knut Emil Lundmark
Uraniborg, Sweden (f.1584)             
                1584 Tycho Brahe
Yale, Connecticut (f.1830)
                1924 Jan Hendrik Oort
Yerkes, Wisconsin (f.1897)             
                1895-1923 Edward Emerson Barnard
                1911-1912 Adriaan Van Maanen
                1914-1917 Edwin Powell Hubble
                1946-1948 Hendrik van de Hulst

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