Getting an observatory here had been a goal of the club for 30 years. It's a privilege to be associated with it and to have access to a research-grade telescope.
Getting an observatory here had been a goal of the club for 30 years. It's a privilege to be associated with it and to have access to a research-grade telescope.
On the retirement of Admiral Sands in 1874, Admiral Davis returned to the observatory, and continued in charge until his death in February, 1877.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
We have been receiving hundreds of calls about this hoax, as has every other major observatory in the country, ... no one now alive will have the opportunity to see this event again.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things.
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes.
So does Edwards want to live at the Naval Observatory If asked, I am sure he would say yes, ... there was, or is, no plan to be the running mate. It is not how he works. He was running for president.
I do not give up my position in the Observatory, having obtained leave of absence for the time during which we may be engaged in the exploration.
NASA's newest Great Observatory is open for business, and it is beginning to take its place at the forefront of science.
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.
The great fire practically put an end to the activity of the Chicago Observatory and forced its director to pursue his work in other fields.
Meanwhile you look at the same field with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and you see a little beacon that says black hole here -- it points out where all of the black holes are in the field. You're testing very different types of physics, very different things -- a lot of synergy.
It is far more important to make the right decision than a quick one. ... It's not a situation where there is cost to either the observatory or the Williams Bay community. We want to get this right.
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