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The sign at the entrance of the Chabot Space and Science Center. The institution began in 1883 as the Oakland Observatory, through a gift from Anthony Chabot to the City of Oakland. [1] The original Oakland Observatory was located near downtown Oakland and provided public telescope viewing for the
Earle G. Linsley from Mills College was chosen to be his successor as director of Chabot Observatory. [1] At the age of 71, Burckhalter's wife died January 23, 1930, while still living in Oakland. [4] In 1924, the 20-inch telescope at Chabot Observatory was dedicated to the memory of Charles Burckhalter, with a plaque mounted on the telescope ...
Opened August 19, 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m 2), state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site in the hills of Oakland, California, adjoining the western boundary of Redwood Regional Park.
SkyPoint Observation Deck; Sphinx Observatory; W. Widow's walk This page was last edited on 23 March 2021, at 12:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
An observation deck, observation platform, or viewing platform is an elevated sightseeing platform usually situated upon a tall architectural structure, such as a skyscraper or observation tower. Observation decks are sometimes enclosed from weather, and a few may include coin-operated telescopes for viewing distant features.
Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970: Rachel, Chabot Observatory's 20-inch refracting telescope, helps bring Apollo 13 and its crew home. One last burn of the lunar lander engines was needed before the crippled spacecraft's re-entry into the Earth's ...
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The equatorial room at the University of Illinois Observatory An equatorial room , in astronomical observatories , is the room which contains an equatorial mounted telescope . It is usually referred to in observatory buildings that contain more than one type of instrument: for example buildings with an "equatorial room" containing an equatorial ...