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The Manila Observatory is a non-profit research institute housed on the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. It was founded by the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, in 1865 as the Observatorio Meteorológico del Ateneo Municipal de Manila. It was later renamed Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila.
José María Algué, SJ (29 December 1856 – 27 May 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila.He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph.
Formal meteorological and astronomical services in the Philippines began in 1865 with the establishment of the Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila (Manila Meteorological Observatory) in Padre Faura Street, Manila when Francisco Colina, a young Jesuit scholastic and professor at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila started a systematic observation and recording of the weather two or three times a day.
The facility's observatory dome hosts a computer-based 45 cm (1.48 ft) Cassegrain reflector telescope [1] [2] installed at the site in May 2001 and donated by the Japanese government through a cultural aid grant. [3] Before this period, the observatory used a 30 cm (0.98 ft) reflector-type telescope. [1]
The Manila Observatory was established during the Spanish colonial period in 1865 and was the only formal meteorological and astronomical research and services institution in the Philippines and remained so until the creation of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) in 1972. [11]
– Manila Observatory founded in the Philippines. [40] 1869 – Joseph Lockyer starts the scientific journal Nature. 1869 – The New York Meteorological Observatory opens, and begins to record wind, precipitation and temperature data. 1870 – The US Weather Bureau is founded. Data recorded in several Midwestern cities such as Chicago begins.
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Del Rosario is recognized for his restoration of the war-damaged Philippine Observatory and for his leadership in establishing various observatories to study the changing times and galaxies. He was an officer of the World Meteorological Organization [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and led the establishment of the Philippine Science High School .