Meanings of national observatory in English

In the same message Mr. Adams recommended the establishment of a national observatory.

The go-as-you-please system works no better in a national observatory than it would in a business institution.

Nominally, at least, the assistants in a national observatory were supposed to follow the instructions of a directing head.

This was a purely geographical meridian, being attached to no capital, to no national observatory, and consequently neutral, or, if you please, purely geographical.

The great instrument which has just completed the installation of our national observatory is constructed upon the same principle as the elbowed equatorial, 11 in.

He works at the Carter Observatory in Wellington, NZ's longest-serving national observatory, and has a… Read more Audio 9:53 AM.

He works at the Carter Observatory in Wellington, NZ's longest-serving national observatory, and has a homemade observatory in Titahi Bay - complete with fibreglass dome.

Every civilized nation expends a large annual sum on a national observatory, while a still greater number of such institutions are supported at corporate expense.

One notable exception is Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.

This theory frequently leads him to the National Observatory of Athens to attend stargazing events.

The principal national observatories, as well as some others, are engaged in supplying this want.

The National Observatory of Athens put it slightly lower at 6.1.

The National Observatory at Greenwich established.

He immediately began with his usual energy to organise the systematic conduct of the business of the National Observatory.

At the present day, astronomers of the great national observatories are assiduously engaged in the determination of the places of the stars.

Father Hell's original journal had been conveyed to Vienna on his return, and was still on deposit at the Austrian National Observatory.