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The Detroit Observatory is located on the corner of Observatory and Ann streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was built in 1854, and was the first scientific research facility at the University of Michigan and one of the oldest observatories of its type in the nation. [ 2 ]
The Detroit Observatory was built in 1854, and was the first scientific research facility at the University of Michigan and the oldest observatory of its type in the nation. The building housed a 12⅝-inch (32 cm) Henry Fitz , Jr. refracting telescope , the third largest telescope in the world when it was installed in 1857.
Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow. Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow (18 November 1821 – 20 August 1891) was a German astronomer. [1]He was the first foreigner to become director of an American observatory, serving as director of Detroit Observatory (at the University of Michigan) from 1854 to 1863.
In 1897, Asaph Hall Jr. married Mary Estella Cockrell who he later had two children with, Katherine and Mary. Outside of his actual astronomical work, Hall also was influential in securing fair pay for the other workers around him at the U.S. Naval Observatory. [2]
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
The Cincinnati Observatory is the first public observatory and houses one of the oldest working telescopes in the world. One of the city's most prized possessions is housed at the Cincinnati ...
Here are a few key happenings in the history of the Renaissance Center, with details from Free Press reporting at the time and more recently: ... History of Detroit's RenCen began in 1970s, became ...
James Craig Watson (January 28, 1838 – November 23, 1880) was a Canadian-American astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, director of the University of Michigan's Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor, and awarded with the Lalande Prize in 1869.