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observatory

An observatory is a building where people can observe things related to space, such as stars and planets.

observatory

a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena (= lookout) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings

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That observatory stands in a good location.
Eris was first found by a team of astronomers at Palomar Observatory in California.
Within a few years of his death, the castle and observatory he built on his beloved island Hven were destroyed.
Hubble's suite of instruments also allows the observatory to record wavelengths of light not just in the visible range but in ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths (which are not visible to our eyes).
The observatory has a good location.

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Well, you definitely had it last night at dinner, and then. at the observatory.
Can you just forget about that observatory stuff?
You can see us reach the top from that observatory over there.
It's an observatory now.
We did quite a job on that Mount Wilson Observatory.
But there is none more remote than Mount Kenna Observatory in this part of South Africa.
There's a car waiting to take you to the observatory.
The delivery will be made to Dr Hendron at the Cosmos Observatory.
We're to go straight to the observatory.
He's in a meeting of the observatory trustees.
Dr Ottinger, of the Estabrook Observatory.
Your observatory trustees, Marston and Spiro, tell me you have an equipped camp but need money to finish the ship.
What about Dr. Snell at the Wayne Observatory?.
The killer-diller, of course, the real bonanza was when Sefton put up the observatory.
This astronomer was David Gill, the director of the Observatory Cape of Good Hope.
And the idea was born. That he could collaborate With David Gill from the Cape Observatory to perform that huge task of measuring all the plates Gill had been collecting.
I was lucky to hide here at this Observatory, together with a fellow student, Hans Hubbenet.
After 6 p.m., when the Observatory's personnel had left, we were allowed to leave the room, but at 8 a.m. we had to be back.
And he had one big advantage: he was an assistant at the Observatory.
Henk received an invitation from Prof. Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, to come and work with him for a few months.
In order to put together the first map of the Galaxy, Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, organised a crash-action.
All the personnel of the Observatory participated.
We sat there, I'd almost say, locked up in the Observatory's lecture room for a week.
It was so nice that it proudly hang on a wall in the Observatory for months and went to several international conferences.
But there is none more remote than Mount Kenna observatory in this part of south Africa.
There's a car waiting to take you to the observatory. over.over.
The delivery will be made to Dr Hendron at the Cosmos observatory.
God, no. We were up at the observatory - and the sun was setting and.
You go up to the observatory, I'll be with you in a minute.
I think one day I'll build myself a proper observatory out in the park.
We just zeroed gray Ford coupe, 1946. Observatory Drive and Crest Place.
The Observatory?
I repeat: We have a message from Athens Observatory.
Lowell built his observatory far away from home on Mars Hill, here in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Almost a thousand years ago in the American Southwest the Anasazi people built a stone temple an astronomical observatory to mark the longest day of the year.
At the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas a laser beam is prepared for firing at the reflectors on the moon 380,000 kilometers away.
There were dissecting rooms and an astronomical observatory. But the treasure of the library consecrated to the god Serapis built in the city of Alexander was its collection of books.
One evening, so the story goes, the observatory night assistant was ill. Humason was asked to fill in.
The observatory.

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