Lyon Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Saint-Genis-Laval, a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France, near Lyon. Founded in...
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This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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Charles Louis François André (category Scientists from Lyon)
(March 14, 1842 – June 6, 1912) was a French astronomer, founder of the Lyon Observatory, which he directed from 1879 until his death. Charles André was born...
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The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (LEDA) was a database of galaxies, created in 1983 at the Lyon Observatory. Each galaxy had a number assigned to...
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theory. He worked at the Observatory of Lyon, France. On August 1, 1906, he became director of the Quito Astronomical Observatory for a few years. He then...
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working as an auxiliary staff at the Lyon Observatory. By 1925, she became the official user of the observatory's bent equatorial telescope. A year later...
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This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and...
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Multi-unit spectroscopic explorer (category European Southern Observatory)
the Lyon Centre for Astrophysics Research (CRAL) in charge of a consortium consisting of six major European institutes: CRAL at Lyon Observatory is the...
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Saint-Genis-Laval (category Communes of Lyon Metropolis)
is a commune in the metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The Lyon Observatory is located in this commune. Saint-Genis-Laval...
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named the honorary director of the Lyon Observatory. Some of his proteges who worked with him in the observatory included Marie Bloch and Charles Fehrenbach...
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The Paris Observatory (French: Observatoire de Paris, pronounced [ɔbsɛʁvatwaʁ də paʁi]), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University...
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The University of Lyon (French: Université de Lyon [ynivɛʁsite də ljɔ̃], or UdL) is a university system (ComUE) based in Lyon, France. It comprises 12...
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aperture.The second largest refracting telescope in the world is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor, used for astronomical and scientific observation...
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of comets and discoverer of two minor planets. He worked at the Observatory of Lyon. In 1889 he won the Lalande Prize for astronomy from the French Academy...
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clusters discovered by Agop Terzan using infrared observations made at Lyon Observatory in France during the 1960s and early 1970s. Most of the globular clusters...
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Hélène Courtois (category Scientists from Lyon)
structure of our cosmic neighbourhood in the early 1990s while at the Lyon Observatory. In 1994, she revealed a superstructure comprising 27,000 galaxies...
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supérieure de Lyon (ENS-Lyon) in collaboration with the nearby Lyon Observatory. In 1995, the Centre de recherche astronomique de Lyon was founded, known...
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with wireless time signals sent by the French wireless Service, that were transmitted from the Lyon Observatory at Saint-Genis-Laval...
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Two-element refracting telescopes were extensively used in 19th century observatories despite their smaller apertures than metal, and later glass, mirror...
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telescopes "Large Zenith Telescope". Atlas Obscura. "Crimean Astrophysical Observatory". Crao.crimea.ua. Archived from the original on 21 September 2009. Retrieved...
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the merger of two observatories: Nice Observatory Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (CERGA) Cote d'Azure Observatory tested beam combining...
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Dylan Colby Lyons (March 11, 1998 – February 22, 2023) was an American television news reporter for Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, Florida who was fatally...
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Mount Holyoke College (redirect from Mount Holyoke Lyons)
Williston Observatory, and a botanic garden. The college awards the Glascock Prize annually. Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as "Mount...
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de Lyon ENS de Lyon (France) The École normale supérieure de Lyon (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɔʁmal sypeʁjœʁ də ljɔ̃]; also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL...
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The David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) is an astronomical observatory site in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1935, it was owned and operated...
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"Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives") Observatory of Lyon ISFA, Graduate School of Actuarial Studies (ISFA, "Institut de Science...
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Old Naval Observatory is a historic site at 23rd and E Street in Northwest, Washington, D.C. It is where the United States Naval Observatory was located...
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Beloved, p. 4 The Allegheny Observatory in Riverview Park--a History by John Lyon. John Lyon, The Allegheny Observatory in Riverview Park--a History...
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1877, vol 37, page 443-445, by John Rodgers History of McCormick Observatory [1] Lyons, Norbert (1955). The McCormick reaper legend; the true story of...
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d'Asie Orientale (Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies), a centre for research in human and social sciences at Université Lumière-Lyon 2 and Institut d'études...
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