History of Astronomy: Observatories and other places

General items

• Pictures of American observatories
  From PhotoNet, a database containing scanned images from the California Institute of Technology Archives

Cross-references for proper names

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Proper name                         Place
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Archenhold-Sternwarte               Berlin

Astronomical Observatory of
   Collurania                       Teramo

Battelle Observatory                Richland

Bureau des Longitudes               Paris

Carter Observatory                  Wellington

Chabot Observatory                  Oakland

David Dunlap Observatory            Toronto

Decker-Grebner-Van Zandt
   Observatory                      Jubilee

Drake Observatory                   Des Moines

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for 
   Astrophysics                     Cambridge, MA

Hopkins Observatory                 Williamstown

Kiepenheuer-Institut für 
   Sonnenphysik                     Freiburg

Kirkwood Observatory                Bloomington

Konkoly Observatory                 Budapest

Leander McCormick Observatory       Charlottesville

Lowell Observatory                  Flagstaff

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy  Heidelberg

North Moor Observatory              Peoria

Observatoire de la Côte 
   d'Azur                           Nice

Observatorio Astronomico Nacional   Sierra San Pedro Martir

Observatorium Wendelstein           Bayrischzell

Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera   Merate

Osservatorio Astronomico 
   di Capodimonte                   Naples

Perkins Observatory                 Delaware

Sacramento Peak Observatory         Sunspot

Southern Cross Astronomical
   Observatory                      Miami

Sternwarte Bogenhausen              Munich

Stull Observatory                   Alfred

U.S. Naval Observatory              Washington

Van Vleck Observatory               Middletown

Washburn Observatory                Madison

Warner and Swasey Observatory       Cleveland

Yerkes Observatory                  Williams Bay
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Individual countries, observatories and places

For the homepages of the following observatories see Astronomy.

• Africa
  • African Culture
  • African Skies
    A planetarium program
• Alexandria
  • History of Mathematics: Alexandria
• Alfred, New York, USA
  • Stull Observatory
• Argentina: see La Plata
• Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  • Armagh Observatory
  • Armagh Planetarium
  • Scientific Instruments [at Armagh Observatory] and Their Related Correspondence by John McFarland
    Paper from LISA-II, ESO Garching, 10-12 May 1995
• Asia
  • Asian Culture
  • Ancient cultures of Asia (collected writings of a 1995 Ancient Astronomical Cosmology class)
• Australia
  • Australia and Australian Culture
  • The Ancient Australians, writing of a 1995 Ancient Astronomical Cosmology class
  • see also Brisbane / Epping
• Austria (Österreich): see Innsbruck / Vienna
• Bayrischzell, Germany
  • Observatorium Wendelstein
• Berlin, Germany
  • A brief History of Astronomy in Berlin
  • Eine kurze Geschichte der Berliner Astronomie (in German)
  • Berlin and Potsdam
    Currently not available.
  • Archenhold-Sternwarte (in German)
• Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  • Indiana University Astronomy Department / Kirkwood Observatory
• Bogenhausen: see Munich
• Bologna, Italy
  • Astronomical Observatory
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Astronomy in Bosnia
• Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Astronomy at Boston University
• Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • Sommers-Bausch Observatory
• Brisbane, Australia
  • Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium
• Brorfelde: see Copenhagen
• Budapest, Hungary
  • Konkoly Observatory (17 June 1996: document not yet implemented)
• Cagliari, Punta Sa Menta and Carloforte, Italy
  • Cagliari Astronomical Observatory
  • Direttori della Stazione Astronomica di Carloforte (in Italian)
• Calar Alto: see Heidelberg
• Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Institute for Space Reasearch (ISR), Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Calgary
• Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Institute of Astronomy
  • HM Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO)
  • Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
    held by Newton, Airy, Hawking, ttp://www.ca.astro.it/poggio/director.html"> Direttori della Stazione Astronomica di Carloforte (in Italian)
• Calar Alto: see Heidelberg
• Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge
    Including astronomy
  • Cambridge through the centuries
    Including astronomy
  • see also Greenwich
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Radio Astronomy Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Canada
  • see Calgary / Hamilton / Toronto
  • see also North America
• Carloforte: see Cagliari
• Catania, Italy
  • Catania Astrophysical Observatory and Institute of Astronomy of Catania University
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  • Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1792-1975
  • History of the Physics Department, 1792-1944
    Including astronomy
• Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
  • Leander McCormick Observatory Direttori della Stazione Astronomica di Carloforte (in Italian)
• Calar Alto: see Heidelberg
• Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Asia: The Ancient Chinese
  • History of Mathematics: China
    Including astronomy
  • The Jesuits in China
    Including astronomical works by Adam Schall von Bell and A. P. Ferdinand Verbiest
• Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • University of Cincinnati Observatory
• Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • Warner and Swasey Observatory, Case Western Reserve University
• Columbia, South Carolina, USA
  • Melton Memorial Observatory (See also here.)
  • Old Observatory
• Columbus, Ohio, USA: see Delaware
• Copenhagen (København, Kopenhagen), Denmark
  • Copenhagen University Observatory
  • Tycho Brahe Planetarium
• Cracow (Kraków, Krakau), Poland
  • Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
• Czech Republic
  • see Prague
  • see also Slovakia
• Delaware, Ohio, USA
  • Perkins Observatory
  • A Short History of Perkins Observatory, by Earl W. Phillips, Jr.
    from EJASA, the Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic, Vol. 3, No. 7 - Febr. 1992
• Denmark: see Copenhagen
• Des Moines, Iowa, USA
  • Drake Observatory
• Dublin, Ireland
  • 5 Merrion Square
  • Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and School of Cosmic Physics
• Ecuador: see Quito
• Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • City Observatory
• Egypt (including Ancient Egypt)
  • Africa: The Ancient Egyptians
  • The Sun-ray origin of the Pyramids by James Nasmyth
  • Checklist of Nineteenth-century "studio photographs" of Egypt in the Archive of the Griffith Institute. Part 3
    See No.52, Nakht, Scribe and Astronomer of the god Amun
• England: see United Kingdom
• Epping, Australia
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Division of Radiophysics
• Europe
  • Europe: The Celts, European Culture
• Finland: see Helsinki
• Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
  • Lowell Observatory
• France: see Lyon / Meudon / Nice / Paris
• Freiburg, Germany
  • Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (in German)
• Germany: see Bayrischzell / Berlin / Freiburg / Görlitz/ Göttingen / Greifswald / Hamburg / Heidelberg / Jena / Munich / Osnabrück / Radebeul / Remplin
• Görlitz, Germany
  • Scultetushaus mit Arachne (in German)
• Göttingen, Germany
  • Universitäts-Sternwarte
• Great Britain: see United Kingdom
• Greece (including Ancient Greece)
  • Greek Astronomy
  • Greek Astronomy (extra)
  • Greek Mathematics: Astronomical-Mathematical Collection
    including: Ptolemy, Almagest
  • History of Mathematics: Greece
    Including astronomy
  • Greek Science
    Including astronomy
  • Early Greek Science: Thales to Plato by Michael Fowler
    Including astronomy
  • Greek Demonstration: The Return of Odysseus and the Elements of Euclid by Andrew Wiesner
    Including astronomy
• Greenwich, United Kingdom
  • Royal Greenwich Observatory (see also: The Tercentenary Sundial and the Greenwich Water Tanks)
• Greifswald, Germany
  • Greifswalder Sternwarte
• Hamburg, Germany
  • Hamburger Sternwarte (in German)
• Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • History of the W.J. McCallion Planetarium
• Hawaii
  • The Ancient Hawaiians, writing of a 1995 Ancient Astronomical Cosmology class
• Heidelberg, Germany
  • Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
• Helsinki, Finland
  • Helsinki University Observatory
• Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex: see Greenwich
• Hungary
  • Forty-five years of public observatories in Hungary
  • see also Budapest
• India
  • The Context of Vedic India, writing of a 1995 Ancient Astronomical Cosmology class
• Innsbruck, Austria
  • Institute of Astronomy
• Ireland: see Dublin
• Italy: see Bologna / Cagliari / Catania / Merate / Milan / Naples / Padova / Palermo / Pisa / Rome / Teramo / Torino / Trieste / Vatican City
• Japan
  • Astronomy in Japan
  • A Short Description of Ancient Japanese Culture and Cosmology
  • see also Kiso
• Jena, Germany
  • Astronomy in Jena - Brief Historical Survey
• Jubilee, Illinois, USA
  • Decker-Grebner-Van Zandt Observatory
• Kiso, Japan
  • Kiso Observatory
• Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA: see also Cleveland
• Korea,
  • The History of Science in Korea from Korea through Pictures
    Including astronomy
  • History of Scientific Development in Korea (Chapter 16.1. of A Window on Korea)
    Including astronomy
  • see also Seoul
• København: see Copenhagen
• Kraków: see Cracow
• La Plata, Argentina
  • La Plata Astronomical Observatory (or see the Spanish version)
• Latvia: see Riga
• Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Sterrewacht Leiden
• London: see Greenwich
• Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Griffith Observatory 1950/1996
• Lund, Sweden
  • Lund Observatory (in Swedish; 24 Apr 1996: currently not available)
• Lyon, France
  • Petite histoire de l'astronomie à Lyon (in French)
  • Les lunettes et telescopes de l'Observatoire de Lyon (in French)
• Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • Washburn Observatory
• Merate, Italy
  • La succursale di Merate dell'Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (in Italian)
• Mesoamerica
  • Mesoamerica: The Aztecs, The Maya
  • See also: Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
• Mesopotamia
  • A Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Astronomy
• Meudon, France
  • Observatoire de Meudon (in French)
  • see also: Paris
• Miami, Florida, USA
  • Southern Cross Astronomical Observatory
• Middletown, CT, USA
  • Van Vleck Observatory, Department of Astronomy
• Milan (Milano, Mailand), Italy
  • Istituto per ricerche in Fisica Cosmica e Tecnologie Relative (24 Apr 1996: still under construction)
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (in Italian, English version under construction)
• Mexico: see Sierra San Pedro Martir
• Mont Blanc: see Paris
• Mount Wilson (near Pasadena), California, USA
  • Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)
  • MWO: Historical photographs
  • MWO Almanac
    See what happened at MWO on this date!
• Munich (München), Germany
  • Sternwarte Bogenhausen (in German)
  • see also: Bayrischzell
• Münster, Germany
  • Astronomisches Institut der Universität (in German)
• Nacton, (near Ipswich), Suffolk, United Kingdom
  • Orwell Park Observatory, maintained by the Orwell Astronomical Society
• Nançay: see Paris
• Naples (Napoli, Neapel), Italy
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (in Italian)
• Netherlands: see Leiden
• New Zealand: see Wellington
• Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • History of the Dreyfuss Planetarium
• Nice, France
  • Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (in French)
• North America
  • North America: Eskimo, The Plains Indians
• Northern Ireland: see Armagh; see also United Kingdom
• Oakland, California, USA
  • Chabot Observatory
• Ogyalla: see Budapest
• Østervold: see Copenhagen
• Osnabrück, Germany
  • Steinzeit-Sternwarten in Osnabrück? (in German)
  • Die astronomische Uhr im Dom (in German)
• Padova, Italy
  • Padova Observatory
• Palermo, Italy
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (packed dvi file)
• Palomar Mountain (near San Diego), California, USA
  • Palomar Observatory: Historical photographs
• Paris, France
  • Bureau des Longitudes (in French)
  • Institut d'Astrophysique
  • Institut d'Astrophysique (in French)
  • Paris-Meudon-Nançay Observatory
  • Observatoire de Paris-Meudon-Nançay (in French)
  • see also: Meudon
• Pasadena: see Mount Wilson
• Peoria, Illinois, USA
  • North Moor Observatory
  • see also Jubilee
• Pisa, Italy
  • Specola Pisana
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Allegheny Observatory (under construction)
• Poland: see Cracow
• Polynesia
  • The Ancient Polynesians, writing of a 1995 Ancient Astronomical Cosmology class
• Potsdam: see Berlin
• Prague (Praha, Prag), Czech Republic
  • The astronomical clock Orloj
• Punta Sa Menta: see Cagliari
• Quito, Ecuador
  • Observatorio Astronomico de Quito (in Spanish; English and French versions in preparation)
• Radebeul, Germany
  • Volkssternwarte Radebeul (in German)
• Remplin, Germany
  • Sternwarte von Friedrich von Hahn (1742-1805)
• Rattlesnake Mountain: see Richland
• Richland, Washington, USA
  • Battelle Observatory
• Riga, Latvia
  • Astronomical Observatory (under construction)
  • Latvian Astronomical Society
    Including history of the Astronomical Tower of the University of Latvia.
• Rome (Roma), Italy
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
  • see also Vatican City
• Saint Veran: see Paris
• San Diego, California, USA
  • Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
  • see also: Palomar Mountain
• Seoul, Korea
  • Dept. of Astronomy, Seoul National University (or see this other version)
• Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico
  • Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
    Reference for a brief history
• Slovakia: see Tatranska Lomnica
• South America
  • South America: The Inca, The Nazca
• Sweden: see Lund / Uppsala
• St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Mathematics at the University of St Andrews up to 1700
    including history of James Gregory's observatory
• Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • The Observatory of the High School of Stirling (see also the history page)
    The telescope may be of historical interest, but no description is given.
• Sunspot, New Mexico, USA
  • National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak
• Tartu, Estonia
  • Tartu Observatory (in Estonian, English in preparation)
• Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia
  • Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Teramo, Italy
  • Astronomical Observatory of Collurania
• Torino, Italy
  • Astronomical Observatory
• Toronto, Canada
  • University of Toronto, Astronomy Department and David Dunlap Observatory
• Trieste, Italy
  • Astronomical Observatory of Trieste
• Tucson: see Vatican City
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
  • Maxwell Hall
    Formerly an observatory (from 1844 to the 1920s)
• United Kingdom: see Armagh / Cambridge / Edinburgh / Greenwich / Nacton / St Andrews / Stirling
• Uppsala, Sweden
  • Uppsala
• Urbana, Illinois, USA
  • Observatory and Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• USA
  • The Smithsonian: 150 Years of Adventure, Discovery, and Wonder by John Conaway, 1995
    History of the Smithsonian Institution, including history of astronomy
  • see Alfred / Bloomington / Boston / Boulder / Cambridge / Chapel Hill / Charlottesville / Cincinnati / Cleveland / Columbia / Delaware / Flagstaff / Jubilee / Madison / Miami / Middletown / Mount Wilson / Newark / Oakland / Palomar Mountain / Peoria / Richland / San Diego / Sunspot / Tuscaloosa / Urbana / Washington / Westford / Williams Bay / Williamstown
  • see also North America
• Vatican City (Città del Vaticano), Italy, and Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • Vatican Observatory
• Vienna (Wien), Austria
  • Universitätssternwarte
• Washington, D.C., USA
  • U.S. Naval Observatory
    • Historical Notes
    • Command History
    • Timekeeping at the U.S. Naval Observatory (History)
• Wellington, New Zealand
  • Carter Observatory
• Westford, Massachusetts, USA
  • VLBI at Haystack Observatory (26 Apr 1996: still under construction)
• Wien: see Vienna
• Williams Bay, WI, USA
  • Yerkes Observatory
• Williamstown, MA, USA
  • Hopkins Observatory