The Paris Observatory (French: Observatoire de Paris; French pronunciation: [ɔbsɛʁvatwaʁ də paʁi]), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres...

astronomy, particularly celestial mechanics, and accepted a job at the Paris Observatory. He spent most of his professional life there, eventually becoming...

[aʁɔ̃dismɑ̃ də lɔpsɛʁvatwaʁ]; meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city...

Yerkes Observatory (/ˈjɜːrkiːz/ YUR-keez) is an astronomical observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The observatory was operated...

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the...

Denmark 1633: Leiden Observatory, Netherlands 1642: Panzano Observatory, Italy 1642: Round Tower, Denmark 1667: Paris Observatory, France 1675: Royal Greenwich...

The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France – now longitude 2°20′14.02500″ East. It was a long-standing...

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...

of France helped to set up the Paris Observatory, which opened in 1671; he would remain the director of the observatory for the rest of his career until...

April 2012 "Planet WASP-6 b", The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia, Paris Observatory, 8 April 2012, archived from the original on 14 March 2014, retrieved...

Encyclopaedia. Paris Observatory. "The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia — TOI-1836 Ac". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Paris Observatory. Polanski, Alex...

January 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories, who carried out intensive studies on the behaviour of the atmosphere...

Francisco, California and Paris, France. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris Observatory. Vallée co-developed the first...

historian of astronomy, and geodesist. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author of well-known books on the history of astronomy from ancient...

planets. He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, from 1887 to...

Born in Paris, son of Victor Puiseux, he was educated at the École Normale Supérieure before starting work as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1885...

Catholicism. The director of the observatory Karl L. Littrow was a correspondent of Urbain Le Verrier, director of the Paris Observatory and he secured a position...

astronomer who served as director of the Observatory of Strasbourg from 1930 to 1945 and of the Paris Observatory from 1945 to 1963. He developed several...

His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but as a result of lodging in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to astronomy...

The Nançay Radio Observatory (in French: Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay), opened in 1956, is part of Paris Observatory, and also associated with...

June 1892) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Born in...

Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory (at the time, Algeria was a colony...

attributed to Danish astronomer Ole Rømer, who was working at the Royal Observatory in Paris at the time. By timing the eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io, Rømer estimated...

beginning on the day the apparent autumnal equinox falls at the Paris Observatory. There were twelve months, each divided into three ten-day weeks called...

in his hometown was milder than that of Paris. He then went to Paris in 1854 and worked at the Paris Observatory. There he assisted Urbain Le Verrier in...

(French: Bureau International de l'Heure, abbreviated BIH), at the Paris Observatory, the National Radio Company, Bomac, Varian, Hewlett–Packard and Frequency...

followed, more refined mathematics would be worked on, notable by Paris Observatory; the work on Halley also provided a boost to Newton and Kepler's rules...

Empire, who first worked at the Vienna Observatory and later spent most of his time at the Paris Observatory, observing comets and asteroids. He provided...

adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle...

University of Paris. He worked as an assistant at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1872. Later he was director of the Toulouse Observatory from 1878 to...