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David Cole Observatory
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Saving the observatory If the Cobb Astro Park at Barnstable High School is perhaps its crowning glory, then one of its finest gems is the Cole Observatory. Unfortunately, in even the most beautiful gems one can find a flaw. Barnstable astronomy teacher Mike Gyra said that recently a flaw in the Cole...
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DEAP-3600 detector
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Title: DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search at SNOLAB Authors: M.G. Boulay for the DEAP Collaboration The DEAP-3600 detector, currently under construction at SNOLAB, has been designed to achieve extremely low background rates from all sources, including 39Ar beta decays, neutron scatters (from inte...
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NOAO 4-m Telescopes
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Title: NOAO 4-m Telescopes for Future Surveys Authors: David Schlegel, Michael Sholl The NOAO currently operates the two most capable platforms in the world for optical surveys, the 4-m KPNO (Mayall) and 4-m CTIO (Blanco) telescopes. It was only discovered recently (in 2009) that a field of view o...
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North Harris Eagle Observatory
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The North Harris Eagle Observatory will be opening later this month. Situated in a spectacular location in the heart of the Harris hills, the Observatory will provide some of the best opportunities in Scotland for viewing Golden Eagles. With a turf roof , timber cladding and large glazing panels fa...
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Little Thompson Observatory
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A massive telescope designed to study the moon for NASA's Apollo missions in the 1960s is now in place at the Little Thompson Observatory in Berthoud. A work-in-progress for the past few years, the 24-inch telescope is almost ready for use. When computer software is connected to the control box of th...
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Skinakas Observatory
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Skinakas Observatory, Greece Credit charmandaris The Skinakas Observatory is located on the island of Crete in Greece. It is a research facility operated jointly by the Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.), the...
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King's Lynn and District Astronomy Society
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Telescope hope for Lynn society[url=http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-and-leisure-news/telescope_hope_for_lynn_soc...
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Malatya observatory
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First observatory in Turkey's east opened in Malatya[url=http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&;Article...
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RockStar Observatory
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Live Astronomy and Astrophotography from the RockStar Observatory See more
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Mynydd Y Betws stone row
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Stone row at new wind farm "missed by archaeologists" ? Word has reached us of a newly discovered stone row on the site of a proposed wind farm in Wales. Unconfirmed reports say the row at the Mynydd y Betws wind farm development had been "missed" by archaeologists researching t...
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KELT-South Telescope
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Title: The KELT-South Telescope Authors: Joshua Pepper, Rudolf B. Kuhn, Robert Siverd, David James, Keivan Stassun The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated tele...
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Big Bend Dark Sky Park
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Big Bend National Park Designated as International Dark Sky Park The stars at night are big and bright in Texas Big Bend National Park. The park was recently designated as an International Dark Sky Park, one of now just ten in the world. Big Bend National Park (BBNP) came in at the Gold Tier level meanin...
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Harappan observatory
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'First astro observatory' of Harappan Civilisation found in Kutch A group of scientists has identified two circular structures at Dholavira in Kutch district of Gujarat, which they say is the first identification of a structure used for observational astronomy during the Harappan Civilisatio...
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Clementine Gnomon
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Title: The astrometric recognition of the solar Clementine gnomon (1702) Authors: Costantino Sigismondi The Clementine gnomon has been built in 1702 to measure the Earth's obliquity variation. For this reason the pinhole was located in the walls of Diocletian's times (305 a. D.) in order to rema...
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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
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The Founding of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), we have realised that, while 1912 has long been recognised as the year HVO was established, the actual founding date is not clear. There was no ribbon-cutting ceremony...
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