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LAMOST — Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (Guo Shoujing Telescope) ... USNO-A2.0 — US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue; USNO-B1.0 — US ...
A staff of professional astronomers, engineers, and other scientists work at the observatory. In the early morning hours of Dec 24th, 2012, the institute was burglarized. Its collection of about 100 meteorites, valued at at least $80,000 and with specimens weighing up to 80 pounds (36 kg), was stolen, along with about $100,000 worth of TVs ...
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants.
Miller Observatory: 1976 Maiden, North Carolina, US 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
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The scanning resulted in images 14,000 x 14,000 (DSS1) or 23,040 x 23,040 pixels (DSS2) in size, [17] or approximately 0.4 (DSS1) and 1.1 gigabytes (DSS2) each. The scanning of First Generation DSS takes a little under seven hours per plate to complete. Due to the large size of the images, they were compressed using an H-transform algorithm.
The Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Appalachian State University (ASU). It is located 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) east of Deep Gap, North Carolina (USA), off of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and 32 kilometers (20 miles) east of the ASU campus in Boone, North Carolina It was established in 1981, and is used for research, instruction, and public viewing ...
The Sydney 'Star Camera' used in the Carte du Ciel project, original publication, 1892. The Carte du Ciel (French pronunciation: [kaʁt dy sjɛl]; literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue and map the positions of ...