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"Visit to an observatory or planetarium?" poll

Mueller Planetarium

Have you ever visited an observatory or planetarium?

Yes...9
No...0

Good to see the results. I know one voter lives very close to a famous observatory in Southern California and I bet he has worked on one. :)

McDonald Observatory

University of Texas

NASA Connect

Ancient Observatories

Part 1

NASA Connect

Ancient Observatories

Part 2

Observatories and Telescopes

Hayden Planetarium

American Museum of Natural History

New York

Charlie Rose

February 11th, 2000

City Observatory, Calton Hill--Edinburgh, Scotland

Eden Prairie, Minnesota and their free telescope

LAMOST ushers in "Year of Astronomy"

Lick Observatory...100 years of astronomy

October 2nd, 1608/October 3rd, 1947...optics/telescope

Old observatories

Oldest operating public telescope--Mount Lookout

Palomar Observatory

PBS Palomar documentary

PBS--Palomar Observatory

Photographic postcards...astronomy

Stanhengues...early astronomy?...and new digs

St. George Observatory in Schriever, Lousiana

Vatican Astronomy

- Lick Observatory May Be Shutdown
"Lick Observatory's astronomy research could end" by Lisa M. Krieger December 16th, 2013 mercurynews.com Astronomical research at Lick Observatory is in peril, due to the University of California's plans to cut funding and convert the 125-year-old...

- Griffith Observatory...renovated And Open To The Public
"Griffith Observatory: Astronomy for the Public" by Elizabeth Howell SPACE.com Griffith Observatory is a Los Angeles-based facility that bills itself as the most-visited observatory in the world. While many professional facilities are solely used by...

- Birthplace Of American Astronomy...the Cincinnati Observatory
"How Cincinnati became the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."" by Ann Thompson April 12th, 2013 WVXU The Cincinnati Observatory is celebrating an anniversary this weekend. It was 168 years ago that a prominent Cincinnatian made the city the "Birthplace...

- Oldest Operating Public Telescope--mount Lookout
Carol Abbott Cincinnati Observatory Center in Mt. Lookout Posthumous accolade of one man's effort to keep a public observatory functioning. "Sundial brings out astronomer's pals" by John Eckberg March 22nd, 2009 Cincinnati.com MOUNT...

- Vatican Astronomy
The Vatican has other interests too--astronomy and a rare book collection. Castel Gandolfo Italy Zeiss Double Astrograph Schmidt Telescope And in conjunction with the Mount Graham International Observatory in southeastern Arizona forming the Vatican...

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