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This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. [1] ... Map Observatories, programs, surveys, and dedicated telescopes
An observatory is a location used for observing ... Western Visayas Local Urban Observatory ... Map showing many of the Astronomical Observatories around the world ...
The megaregions of the United States are eleven regions of the United States that contain two or more roughly adjacent urban metropolitan areas that, through commonality of systems, including transportation, economies, resources, and ecologies, experience blurred boundaries between the urban centers, perceive and act as if they are a continuous urban area.
The NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (commonly referred to as CUSP) is a degree-granting technology and research institute in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It is a graduate school of New York University focusing on urban informatics. [1] The Center, first opened in September 2013, is inside NYU's 370 Jay Street building. [2]
An urban ecologist monitors wildlife within the park. [52] The ecologist has also been conducting a raptor study in the communities surrounding the park through volunteers since 2017. [ 53 ] Permanent signs on the Griffith Park Observatory deck warn of rattlesnakes in the surrounding area.
Local Urban Observatories (LUOs) were first conceived by Joe Flood, as a successor to the Housing and Urban Indicators Programme of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat). A motion of the UN Commission for Human Settlements called for the institution of a Global Urban Observatory that would co-ordinate a network of local ...
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.
Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.