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    The Dearborn Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The observatory was originally constructed...
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  • collections. The Dearborn Observatory is an observatory, located on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The observatory was originally constructed...
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  • 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...
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    Commons has media related to Observatories. Western Visayas Local Urban Observatory (archived 19 September 2008) Dearborn Observatory Records, Northwestern University...
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    refracting telescope was then delivered to his customer, the landmark Dearborn Observatory of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where it is still...
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    The University of Michigan–Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) is a public university in Dearborn, Michigan. Founded in 1959 with a gift from the Ford Motor Company...
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  • This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and...
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    was later demolished and relocated farther north, along with the Dearborn Observatory, to make room for the Technological Institute.[citation needed] After...
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    of an 18.5-inch (470 mm) aperture great refractor telescope for Dearborn Observatory, which was one of the largest refracting telescope lenses in existence...
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  • O. Haven. Memorial Hall opened at the Garrett Seminary in 1884, Dearborn Observatory opened in 1887, and Lunt Library opened in 1894. Fisk Hall opened...
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    linguist, professor at the University of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory, and president of the Chicago Astronomical Society. His book, Star...
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  • formally dedicated on October 12, 1965, serving as a remote station of Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University. In October 1965, a NASA program to detect...
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    oppositions The Chicxulub Debate In relation to the K-T extinction. Dearborn Observatory Records, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois Notations...
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    several observatories around the world, including McCormick Observatory, Lamont–Hussey Observatory (South Africa), Mount Wilson Observatory, Smithsonian...
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    largest telescope in America, the Dearborn 18+1⁄2 in (47 cm) refractor. It was later surpassed by the U.S. Naval Observatory's 26 inch, which would go on to...
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  • Pickering at Lowell Observatory in 1937, creating the first color photographs of Mars. He then worked at the Dearborn Observatory from 1939 until 1941...
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    arcseconds. It was discovered by Sherburne Wesley Burnham in 1891 at the Dearborn Observatory, and is about 0.5 light-years from the primary. Another eclipsing...
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  • Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Dearborn Observatory, and Dearborn Observatory. Annals of the Dearborn Observatory of Northwestern University. Evanston...
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  • Draper Catalogue or Bonner Durchmusterung. It was included on a 1947 Dearborn Observatory survey as star 41575, but that ID is hardly ever used. V354 Cephei...
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    aperture.The second largest refracting telescope in the world is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor, used for astronomical and scientific observation...
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    lens) in North America: Optical telescopes only Some of the largest at observatories: Lists of telescopes List of radio telescopes List of largest optical...
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    included the largest in the world at the time: the 18.5-inch (47 cm) at Dearborn Observatory at the Old University of Chicago (the lens originally intended for...
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    Astrophysics". Popular Astronomy. Address at the semi-centennial of the Dearborn Observatory. Vol. 24. pp. 550–558 [555]. Bibcode:1916PA.....24..550H. Seares...
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    of an 18.5-inch (470 mm) aperture great refractor telescope for Dearborn Observatory, which was one of the largest refracting telescope lens in existence...
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    larger than the observatories in Pulokovo and Harvard. However, due to the Civil War, the observatory ended up going to Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern...
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    Hough using the 18.5 inch refractor at the old (Chicago) site of the Dearborn Observatory. It was given number 286 in his catalog. In the fall of 1966, V1334...
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  • published (until 1932). 1887: Newberry Library established. 1888: Dearborn Observatory rebuilt. 1889 Hull House founded. Auditorium Building completed....
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    met Truman Henry Safford, an astronomer at the recently completed Dearborn Observatory. Stone became his pupil, quickly beginning his lifelong interest...
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  • 1951 until 1953, he served as an astronomy research assistant at Dearborn Observatory. While a student at Northwestern, he met his future wife, Elizabeth...
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  • Galaxies) (Alan Duus / Barry Newell) DnB — Open Source (nebulae) DO — Dearborn Observatory Do — Dolidze (open star clusters) (57 items) Dob — A.W. Doberck (double...
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