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Harvard College Observatory

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Harvard College Observatory astronomical observatory located in Cambridge, Mass., operated by Harvard (Harvard College at the time of the observatory's founding in 1839). Its equipment includes a 61-in. (155-cm) reflecting telescope and 15-in. (38-cm) and 12-in. (30-cm) refracting telescopes. Programs of the Harvard Observatory include various aspects of solar physics, stellar and nebular spectroscopy and photometry, and theoretical cosmology. Among the noted directors of the observatory have been W. C. Bond, G. P. Bond, E. C. Pickering, and Harlow Shapley. In 1973 the research programs ... Read more

Harvard College Observatory
Harvard College Observatory (HCO) The astronomical observatory of Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts...HCO and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory jointly run the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics... Read more

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