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UK
/ɒbzˈɜːvətəɹˌi/
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[ US /əbˈzɝvəˌtɔɹi/ ]
[ US /əbˈzɝvəˌtɔɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
- a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena
How To Use observatory In A Sentence
- Hasinger and his colleagues have combined XMM and Infrared Space Observatory measurements of the Lockman Hole, putting a lower limit— 15percent—on the AGN contribution to the infrared background.
- Practical and down-to-earth, he's a bit of a joker and Paul's only friend outside the observatory.
- The Belfast Telegraph has a letter that I think bears repetition: Our own observatory at Armagh is one of the oldest in the world and has been observing solar cycles for more than 200 years. Archive 2008-08-01
- A telescope is normally bolted to a vast concrete plinth around which the observatory dome can rotate without touching it, and the instrument isolated from tremors.
- This telescope is housed inside the interior dome of the Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii.
- While in the Harvard College Observatory he worked on many mathematical and astronomical subjects including topology and ergodic theory.
- There are also plans to open a national observatory with an automated telescope dedicated solely to high-school observers.
- Lowell established an observatory on Mars Hill in Arizona and the telescope he used - a superb Brashear refractor - has been sitting here, unused, for years.
- The seismogram from the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory is also nifty, when their webserver isn’t swamped! Earthquake at cvillenews.com
- Using an observation technique known as farside, we can determine the position of sunspots on the hidden side of the Sun. Irene González-Hernández, a scientist at the NOAO (National Optical Astronomical Observatory) said during her address to the 4th International HELAS Conference in Lanzarote (Canary Islands) that: "activity in the farthest regions of the Sun.can be observed by looking at waves in the nearer regions. Signs of the Times