Wednesday, April 8, 2009

"Visit to an observatory or planetarium?" poll


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

2 comments:

Timray said...

shhhhh...any time one works for the Jesuits it is top secret.....jeezers

Mercury said...

Salmon patties talk.