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The Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS) is conducted by astronomers from Australia and New Zealand since mid 2008 to search for new supernovae in the southern hemisphere. [2] In 2022 the group won the Astronomical Society of Australia's Page Medal [ 3 ] for having found around 200 confirmed supernovas.
I have added the National Astronomical Observatory of Mexico and Tacubaya Observatory as well as an incomplete list tag at the bottom of the list. I believe those were the two observatories you were talking about. Tacubaya used to be the national observatory back in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
The 24.5-inch Classical Cassegrain Telescope as it appeared in 2014.. The main 24-inch telescope is the reason for the existence of Goldendale Observatory and was the work of four amateur astronomers — M.W. McConnell, John Marshall, Don Conner and O.W. VanderVelden — who built a 24.5-inch (620 mm) Cassegrain reflecting telescope for Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, which paid for ...
The largest and most notable of these is the Mauna Kea Observatory, located near the summit of a 4,205 m (13,796 ft) volcano in Hawaiʻi. The Chacaltaya Astrophysical Observatory in Bolivia, at 5,230 m (17,160 ft), was the world's highest permanent astronomical observatory [ 8 ] from the time of its construction during the 1940s until 2009.
Coordinates: 19°45′41″N 155°27′22″W. Dormitories at the center. A view of the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station on the ascent of Mauna Kea, taken from a Pu'u at the 9300 ft. level. The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, also known as Hale Pōhaku, is a complex of support facilities for the ...
Ralph A. Worley Observatory. Ralph A. Worley Observatory is an astronomical observatory currently under lease to Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society. It was built in 1964 by the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society and later donated to the Caddo Parish School System. It is located 8 miles south of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
Mount Laguna Observatory (MLO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by San Diego State University (SDSU). [1] MLO is located approximately 75 kilometers (47 mi) east of downtown San Diego, California, on the eastern edge of the Cleveland National Forest, in the Laguna Mountains on the SDSU Astronomy Campus near the hamlet of Mount ...
Lake Afton Public Observatory (LAPO) is an astronomical observatory located southwest of Wichita, Kansas in a rural area of Sedgwick County on the north side of Lake Afton. At the heart of the observatory is a 16-inch (410 mm) F/13 Ritchey–Chrétien telescope along with a piggyback mounted 6-inch (150 mm) F/8 apochromatic refractor.