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Find a complete set of information about the research program at the observatory.
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Klet Observatory  If you find any problems with the home page or if you have any comments, please contact our webmaster. Copyright (c) 1996-2005, Klet Observatory, Ceske Budejovice. All rights reserved. since 1996 Sept. 1...
http://www.klet.org/

Maurice Gavin's private observatory with 30cm Meade LX200 and various spectroscopes incl SBIG spectrometer.
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Worcester Park Observatory-UK  Observations solar system images rainbows, arcs+cloud deepsky SN2004DJ Equipment designs reviews Book reviews some novel ideas DS filter tester Ebert spectrograph SBIG spectrometer Rainbow Optics grating WPO mk1a spectrograph WPO spectrograph Pixcel 255 CCD Review Celestron Ultima Review Celestron Fastar...
http://www.astroman.fsnet.co.uk

AURA is a consortium of educational and other non-profit institutions that operates world-class astronomical observatories.
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Welcome to AURA  Looking for educational astronomy info? See ourAstronomy Info andResources page. New:Astronomy Education Review     provided by Atomz.com AURA Announces Formation of the Gemini Director Search Committee NSF Senior Review HST Servicing GSMT Update Moon-Mars Initiative VISA Processing who we...
http://www.aura-astronomy.org/

ESO is an intergovernmental, European organisation for astronomical research, operates astronomical observatories in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
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ESO The European Southern Observatory Homepage  Observatory is an intergovernmental, European organisation for astronomical research. It has eleven member countries. ESO operates astronomical observatories in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany. Top News ISAAC GOODS Release: Version 1.5 is available (30/Sep/2005 Catch...
http://www.hq.eso.org/

The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/JACpublic/

An internationalized research center, comprising the Instituto de Astrofísica, which forms the headquarters, in La Laguna (Tenerife); the Observatorio del Teide, in Izaña (Tenerife); and the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, in Garafía (La Palma).
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Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands  ...
http://www.iac.es/home.html

The ESA WWW Server at Villafranca provides information on the Station and on the projects supported at Villafranca.
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VILSPA  October 27, 2005 Owner: public-relationsCurator: webmasterSite Credits LatestNews:¿Qué ha convertido a Venus en un infierno LearnMore] Copyright 2000-2002 The European Space Agency...
http://www.vilspa.esa.es/

Manages several astronomical observatories for universities and for the National Science Foundation. Press releases and information about the observatories.
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Associated Universities, Inc AUI)  Observatory under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. About AUI Background Information Founding Universities AUI Officers and Corporate Staff Trustees Committees Trustee Committees NRAO Visiting Committee Employment Opportunities Facilities Atacama Large Millimeter Array Expanded Very Large Array Green...
http://www.aui.edu/

The scientific institute within the National Research Council of Canada which has the mandate from Parliament to operate and administer any astronomical observatories established or maintained by the Government of Canada. Site text available in English and French.
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NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Institut Herzberg d'astrophysique du CNRC  Important Notices Avis importants...
http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/

Index of those operational and under construction, extremely large studies, and interesting projects.
http://nineplanets.org/bigeyes.html

Photo library, news, message board, projects, online robotic, and chat.
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Springbrook Research Observatory.  fastpage home equipment online telescopes recent observations today's pic photo library projects webcam email Springbrook weather Australian sat-weather Visitors since 01-07-99 Research,Astronomy,Springbrook,Queensland,Observatory,schmidt-cassegrain,CG-11,CG-14,CCD imaging camera,message board,chatroom,telescope,interactive,workshop,celestial photos....
http://maguires.com/astronomy/

General information, education, news, images, schedule, shows, and calendar of events.
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Carter Observatory Carter Observatory  You are about to embark on a journey of discovery.Explore this site and open your mind to the possibilities of the universe.Astronomy is bigger than all of us. It’s looking up into the sky and wondering. It’s Stonehenge and the...
http://www.carterobservatory.org/

Information on automated system, statistics, research interests, and discoveries.
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Climenhaga Observatory Home Page  Controlled such that telescope will observe a couple fields until dawn Telescope Statistics Year Nights Photom Tours Astrm SprNova Teach Frames 1983 79 57 22 1984 145 128 17 1985 129 83 46 1986 159 94 65 1987 152 88...
http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/climenhaga/obs/telescope.html

Innovative solar instrument with information on news, equipment, publications, documents, facts, movies, and images.
http://dot.astro.uu.nl/

Tour information, astrophotographs, equipment information, images, moon chart, ccd imaging tips, and links.
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Grove Creek Observatory AUSTRALIA  Skies from the best location in Australia! Stay in our comfortable on-site accommodation facility! Have the Astronomical experience of your lifetime! Tour Information Prices Conditions Our Telescopes Astrophotographs CCD Images Moon Phase Chart Wheaton Observatory Other Activities Weather Station BOOK...
http://www.gco.org.au/

Information on 16 inch Boller and Chivens, 16 inch Meade, and a MTT (a one-meter or 40 inch effective aperture) instruments.
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Georgia State University Astronomy Program HLCO  Atlanta the observatory is a resource for professional and amateur astronomers. However, an additional service of HLCO has been to the public bringing the wonders of the Universe to Georgia residents. Professional astronomers from Georgia State University take advantage of...
http://www.chara.gsu.edu/HLCO/

Photographic plate collection, model shop information and images, information on 9 inch Clark and the Great Refractor, and public open nights.
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Harvard College Observatory Home Page  Welcome to the home page of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO Founded in 1839, the HCO carries on a broad program of research in astronomy and astrophysics, collaborating with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/hco-home.html

Includes information on 12 inch and solar equipment, images, and history.
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Kirkwood Observatory  Please email astdept indiana.edu [astdept] 12 inch refracting telescope Located at the edge of campus between the woods and where Indiana Avenue meets 4th street, this building is the most obvious and accessible of our facilities. It houses a 0.3...
http://www.astro.indiana.edu/kirkwood.shtml

Facility schedule, calendar, resources, equipment and instrument information, available filters, printable log sheets, and bulletins.
http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/

Mission, visitor information, events, services, equipment and instrumentation information, and images.
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Mt. Graham International Observatory  We are an operations and maintenance group whose mission is to provide quality logistics support services to the astronomical research community. Our Motto: Continuous Improvement. We will accomplish our work in a teamwork environment; communicating, resolving conflicts and acknowledging accomplishments...
http://mgpc3.as.arizona.edu/

Image galleries including a panorama, picture of the day archive, guest archive, and facility archive.
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Mt. Wilson Virtual Observatory  I can no longer post a new picture each day. However, the 300+ images in the Pic o Day Archive and all of the images in the other featured sections will remain on this site. I then created a site...
http://www.astrophys-assist.com/wilobs/

Feature, news, service, program information, equipment, technology, research, education, image gallery, and links.
http://www.eese.bee.qut.edu.au/partner/ntqo/index.jsp

News, online interface, references, gallery, data download, archive, and software.
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CWRU Astronomy Dept: Nassau Station  This server made possible by the generous support of several friends of the NSRT The Nassau Station is located near Chardon, OH, approximately 30 miles east of Cleveland, OH. Education Astronomy Reference Educational Resources Robotic Telescope Interface Online Interface Environmental...
http://astrwww.astr.cwru.edu/Nassau/nassau.html

Facility, equipment, and instrumentation information, articles, circulars, and image galleries.
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NF/ Observatory Home Page  The telescope is a redesigned Group 128, 24 classical cassegrain, currently configured at F10. The camera has taken over 30,000 images with the ATIS(automatic telescope instruction set Click to see what it takes to refit a scope like this. The...
http://www.nfo.edu/

Access, projects, infrastructure, observations, history, and organization.
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NOVA  E operates its own astronomical observatory NOVA. It is located in the inner part of Vestfold county in south-east Norway, far from streetlights and other light pollution. NOVA is placed at a mountaintop 350 metres above sea level, and has...
http://www.dse.no/nova.html

News, equipment, stars observed, photo gallery, online data, publications, and links.
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Introduction  Pages createdand managedby Lukas Kral How to obtainour data /Warning Observatory The Johann Palisa Observatory and Planetarium of Technical University in Ostrava is situated at the west end of the city of Ostrava, which is the third largest city in...
http://ostrava.astronomy.cz/int.php

Equipment information, instrumentation and methods, schedule, and reports.
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SAO RAS home page  The principal instruments of the Observatory are the optical telescope BTA (Bolshoi Azimuthal Telescope) with a 6-m primary mirror and the radio telescope RATAN-600 (RAdio Telescope of the Academy of Sciences) with a ring multi-element 600-m antenna. The Observatory provides...
http://www.sao.ru/Doc-en/

General information, public viewing sessions information, free star charts, images, courses, and facility, equipment and instrumentation information.
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SFA Observatory  Located eleven miles north of the historic East Texas city of Nacogdoches, the SFA Observatory proudly carries on and enhances the tradition of the campus-based facility. The Student Observatory at the site currently provides 600 introductory astronomy students per year...
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/Observatory/obs.htm

News, conferences, reports, data center, publications, resources, and planetarium information.
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STRASBOURG OBSERVATORY  Observatory is a research unit (UMR 7550) of Universit Louis Pasteur and CNRS. It hosts teaching and research activities, the services of the Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS and public outreach activities, with the Planetarium. News Astronomers find nearest galaxy...
http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/Obs-e.html

History, activities, future plans, facilities and equipment information, public nights and schedules, and location.
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Department of Astronomy: About The Teaching Observatory  Click for observatory facilities HomePage Directories Site Map Announcementsand News ResearchAreas UndergraduateProgram GraduateProgram AstronomyWeb Sites Last updated March 22, 2000 ChartRoom Computers Networks InfraredLaboratory LibraryInformation MicrowaveLaboratory RosemaryHill Obs. TeachingObservatory RadioObservatory OtherFacilities Teaching ObservatoryFacilities History of TheTeaching Observatory Teaching ObservatoryLocator Maps...
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/teachobs.html

A 42 cm instrument used for public observing, undergraduate teaching and instrument development.
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UBC Astronomy Telescope Page  Moon in the background photo P. Durrell, 1999 Atop the Geophysics Astronomy building, we have a 42 cm telescope which is used for public observing, undergraduate teaching and instrument development. This instrument was obtained from Sigma Research with monies provided...
http://www.astro.ubc.ca/telescope/

Facility information, images, public access, education and outreach, directions, and technical information on equipment and instrumentatin.
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UCI Observatory Homepage  Observatory is located in the fields on the outskirts of campus. The observatory has a large computer-controlled telescope (seen in the upper-right photograph above) and numerous other smaller, portable, telescopes. Currently the observatory is used in the introductory astronomy series...
http://www.physics.uci.edu/~observat/

Facility located near the summit of Mauna Kea, and includes observing time request information and equipment manuals.
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University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope  It went into operation in 1970, and its early successes showed the excellent image quality and observing conditions at the top of Mauna Kea. General Information Information of interest to the general public has been separated from technical information that...
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/88inch/

Facility information, library, learning materials, image gallery, publication list, and research.
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Astronomical observatory, University of Ljubljana  O observatory astronomy club astronomical library cosmology Crni Vrh observing station image gallery learning materials light pollution in Slovenia new telescope at AGO Partial Solar eclipse 3-oct-2005 Phoebe (PHysics Of Eclipsing BinariEs) publication list research studying astrophysics (in Slovene) who...
http://www.fiz.uni-lj.si/astro/

Facility and equipment information including images.
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University of Toronto Southern Observatory  O ceased operating due to lack of funds. An agreement was subsequently made with the Argentine observatory at El Leoncito to move the telescope, operate it, and maintain it, reserving 25% of the time for the University of Toronto. The...
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~utso/

Equipment and instrument information, observing information, and data archive.
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Ritter Observatory  See bibliography and latest annual report here. Return to RARC homepage. last modification 2 September 2002 RARC document custodian...
http://www.physics.utoledo.edu/~wwwphys/ritter/ritter_obs.html

History, equipment specifications, reports, images, news, and FAQ's.
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Vatican Observatory  Its dependent research center, the Vatican Observatory Research Group, is hosted by Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. The Vatican Observatory Research Group operates the 1.8m Alice P. Lennon Telescope with its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility,...
http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/R1024/VO.html

General information, operations, equipment, and images,
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Zimmerwald Observatory Description  Observatory is located about 10 kilometers south of the city of Bern: Maps: Bern-Zimmerwald (MapBlast, gif file) Bern-Zimmerwald (SwissGeo, png file Zimmerwald (detail, SwissGeo, png file Built in 1956, it consisted originally of two parts: a dome building and a...
http://www.cx.unibe.ch/aiub/zimmerw.html

Information, research, education, associated centers and departments, news, library, events, and links.
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Astronomical Observatory  Departments at the instituteAstronomical ObservatoryEducation Research Public outreach The Institute Resum Welcome to Astronomical Observatory, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. Astronomical Observatory Astronomical observatory is one of the departments of the Niels Bohr Institute of Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics. The...
http://www.nbi.ku.dk/side21935.htm