The Madras Observatory was an astronomical observatory which had its origins in a private observatory set up by William Petrie in 1786 and later moved...

Ukraine. 1774: Observatory of the Vatican, Italy. 1785: Dunsink Observatory, Ireland. 1786: Madras Observatory, India. 1789: Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland...

transfer his private observatory to the government and set up the first modern astronomical observatory, the Madras Observatory, in Nungambakkam. Topping...

23 June 1891) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets...

astronomer, Petrie helped found the first modern observatory outside Europe, the Madras Observatory. The chronology of his advancement through the Honorable...

observatory at his garden house at Egmore, Madras, which eventually came to be known as the Madras Observatory. Later it was moved to Kodaikanal and functioned...

meteorological observatories were established in India by the British East India Company. These included the Calcutta Observatory in 1785, the Madras Observatory in...

modern astronomical and meteorological observatory in the East, established at Egmore before 1792. The Madras Observatory, as it was known then, was established...

This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...

discovered by English astronomer N. R. Pogson on April 17, 1861, from the Madras Observatory. Pogson chose the name to refer both to Asia, a Titaness in Greek...

a private astronomical observatory, the first observatory in the East. 1788: Thomas Parry (Chennai merchant) lands in Madras and begins the oldest surviving...

"Observations of the Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites, taken at the Madras Observatory, in the Years 1817—1825". Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society...

a rapid transfer of work and equipment from the Madras Observatory to Kodaikanal and the observatory was founded on 1 April 1899. The first observations...

Company set up private observatory in his residence located in Egmore, Chennai (formerly Madras), India. The main aim of the observatory, according to Petrie...

variable. This variable was discovered by C. Ragoonatha Chary at the Madras Observatory in India. The binary star system Epsilon Reticuli consists of a spectral...

(1822 – 5 February 1880) an Indian astronomer attached to the then Madras Observatory. The Drigganita system propounded by Parameshvara was a revision of...

1828 – 5 February 1880) was an Indian astronomer who worked at the Madras Observatory along with N.R. Pogson. He was the first Indian Fellow of the Royal...

official astronomer of the Madras Observatory, appointed in 1802. Goldingham was also an architect and surveyor who headed the Madras Survey School which later...

(1822 – 5 February 1880) an Indian astronomer attached to the then Madras Observatory. There is another almanac known as Vākyapañcāṅgam, also popular among...

was an English astronomer who worked extensively at the Madras Observatory and produced the Madras Catalogue of Stars from around 1831 to 1839. He was the...

discovered on 17 November 1868, by English astronomer Norman Pogson at Madras Observatory, India, and named after Camilla, Queen of the Volsci in Roman mythology...

comets. The comet was also observed by Thomas Glanville Taylor at the Madras Observatory. In 1835 Herapath became editor of The Railway Magazine, which underwent...

reference to the River Isis. When her father became director of the Madras Observatory in Madras, India, in October 1860, Isis travelled with him, her mother...

Ophiuchi. In 1855, William Stephen Jacob at the East India Company's Madras Observatory reported that orbital anomalies made it "highly probable" that there...

(1822 – 5 February 1880) an Indian astronomer attached to the then Madras Observatory. The name Vākyapañcāṅga comes from the fact that it is based on vākya-s...

Africa, the Royal Alfred Observatory on Mauritius, the Madras Observatory in Madras, India, the Colonial Time Service Observatory in Wellington, New Zealand...

physics who worked at the Presidency College Madras and also served as a director of the Madras Observatory. His students included C. V. Raman. Jones was...

time passed through Thiruvananthapuram. The observatory was designed by Lieutenant W H Horsley of the Madras Engineers. Caldecott also began taking meteorological...

recorded as X/1872 X1, seen by N. R. Pogson in late 1872 from the Madras Observatory, was also speculated to be a recovery of Biela's Comet, though once...

London in April 1863. The Times noted: In 1865 be was able to warn the Madras observatory by telegram that a severe cyclone would reach their coasts in three...