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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.
Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory, University of Western Ontario, London; Kessler Observatory, Carleton University, Ottawa; Killarney Provincial Park Observatory; Long Point Observatory, St. Williams; Queen's University Observatory, Queen's University, Kingston; Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Sudbury; Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory
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. After his ...
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 ]
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Clarke Observatory: 1897 / 1923 Dunkirk, New York / Alliance, Ohio, US Class of 1951 Observatory: 1997 Poughkeepsie, New York, US Cloudcroft Observatory (defunct) 1962 New Mexico, US Coats Observatory: 1883 Paisley, Scotland, UK Coit Observatory: Boston, Massachusetts, US Collins Observatory: 2003 Corning, New York, US ...
Category: Astronomical observatories in Scotland. ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Coats Observatory; E.
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Shelton became a graduate student at the University of Toronto in the fall of 1987. He received his M.Sc. in 1990 and PhD in 1996. He has since worked as an astronomer at several observatories: Japan's 8.3-metre Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, the 1.9-metre David Dunlap Observatory in Toronto, Athabasca University north of Edmonton, and the 6.5-metre MMT Observatory south of Tucson. [1]