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Coats Observatory was furnished with a wide range of scientific apparatus for observing the night sky and making meteorological records. In 1900 seismic monitoring equipment was installed for recording earthquakes. Coats Observatory was one of the stations across the world which recorded the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Thomas Coats (1809-1883) co-founder of the world-famous J.&P Coats company was a philanthropist and devout member of the Baptist Church.He was committed to the well-being of his town, involved in the restoration of Paisley Abbey, and in funding projects such as the construction of the Coats Observatory and Paisley Fountain Gardens.
Mills Observatory: 1938 Dundee, Scotland, UK Mind's Eye Observatory IAU W42: 2018 Sebastian, Florida, US MMT Observatory: 1979 Mount Hopkins, Arizona, US Modine-Benstead Observatory: 1963 Union Grove, Wisconsin, US Modra Observatory: 1988 Modra, Slovakia Mohr Observatory (demolished) 1765–1780 Jakarta, Indonesia Moletai Astronomical ...
The Museum and Art Galleries were gifted to the town of Paisley by the industrialist Sir Peter Coats in 1871. The building, which also houses Paisley Library and the Coats Observatory , [ 2 ] was designed by Glasgow architect John Honeyman of the firm of Honeyman and Keppie . [ 3 ]
Pages in category "Astronomical observatories in Scotland" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Institution has helped to found several local bodies, including the Paisley Free Library and Museum (1871), the Coats Observatory (1882) and Paisley Technical College and School of Art (1897; subsequently the University of Paisley, now part of the University of the West of Scotland).
Mills Observatory: Dundee, Scotland (1951) 25 cm (10") 1871: by T. Cooke & Sons. Training telescope at St. Andrews 1938–1951: Coats Observatory: Paisley, Scotland (1898) 25 cm (10") 1898: by Howard Grubb. Replaced 5" refractor by Thomas Cooke, installed in 1883. Blackett Observatory: Marlborough College Wiltshire, England-25 cm (10") 1860: by ...
Gordon MacMillan Southam Observatory, H.R. Macmillan Space Centre, Vancouver Large Zenith Telescope , University of British Columbia (at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest) (Decommissioned 2014) Trottier Observatory, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby