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1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1982 Mount Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return 1980 U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares 1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit 1973 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory 1972 U.S. orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched 1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched 1971 Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched 1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit 1968 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched 1966 OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched 1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) 1964 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) 1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated 1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory 1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb 1934 5.08-m (200") Mount Palomar Observatory mirror is cast 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory 1917 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted 1897 Yerkes Observatory of University of Chicago is dedicated 1897 Otto, von, Struve, German/U.S. dir, Yerkes/MacDonald observatory 1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time 1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in San Francisco 1864 William F. A. Ellison, Irish clergyman/director, Armagh Observatory 1862 William W. Campbell, U.S. astronomer and director Lick Observatory 1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star, Vega 1842 U.S. Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress 1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts 1825 President John Quincy Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory 1811 James Melville Gilliss, founder, Naval Observatory in Washington 1682 Louis XIV and his court inaugurates Paris Observatory 1675 King Charles II lays foundation stone of Royal Observatory, Greenwich 1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II 1579 Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory 1576 Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory |
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