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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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