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The University of the Salvador (Spanish: Universidad del Salvador, also known for its acronym USAL) is a Jesuit university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to its campus in downtown Buenos Aires, [1] it has instructional and research facilities in Pilar, [2] San Miguel, Bahía Blanca, and in the provinces of Santa Cruz [3] and Misiones ...
The site was provided under a long-term lease by the University of Cuyo and the observatory was jointly operated by the University of Cuyo's Observatorio Astronómico "Félix Aguilar" (OAFA) in San Juan and the Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory, Inc (YCSO). A residence was constructed adjacent to the grounds of the OAFA in San Juan for the ...
The El Leoncito Astronomical Complex (Spanish: Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito - CASLEO) is an astronomical observatory in the San Juan Province of Argentina. CASLEO is one of two observatories located within El Leoncito National Park , which is in a part of the country which rarely sees cloud cover.
Architectural rendering of the Quito Astronomical Observatory, artist by Ludwig Dressel (1873).. The Quito Astronomical Observatory was founded in 1873. The first director was Juan Bautista Menten, who directed and planned the construction of the center, modeled on the Observatory of Bonn (Germany).
The observatory in the 1920s. La Plata was a planned city, intended as the capital of the province after the city of Buenos Aires became the Argentina's Federal Capital. The observatory was the result of the 1872 establishment of the National Meteorological Bureau, enacted by President Domingo Sarmiento on an initiative by U.S. astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould (who lived in Argentina between ...
The site for the Inter-American Observatory on Mt. Cerro Tololo was identified by a team of scientists from Chile and the United States in 1959, and it was selected in 1962. [5] [6] Construction began in 1963 with Stock as the first director, and regular astronomical observations commenced in 1965. [7]
The Parque Astronómico La Punta was created in 2006 [1] as an outreach project. Today it has an observatory, a planetarium and the exhibit "El Solar de las Miradas". It also has some interactive science exhibits and modular under the concept of "please touch".
Cerro El Roble Station (Spanish: Estación Astronómica de Cerro El Roble, also known as Cerro El Roble Observatory; obs. code: 805), is a site of Chile's National Astronomical Observatory located on Cerro El Roble, a mountain on the border between Santiago Metropolitan Region and Valparaíso Region. The observatory building sits at an ...