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...leading observatories of the world. The Naval Observatory has the largest annual income--about $85,000. The National Observatory of France is second, with an income of $50,000, and the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, third, with $49,000. The Harvard Observatory and the Imperial Observatory of Russia, at Pulkowa, receive $46,000 yearly. The richest private Observatory is that at the Cape of Good Hope with an annual revenue of $33,000. In the relative values of their equipments the leading observatories rank differently. Washington has buildings and instruments valued at $856,500 but both the Yerkes and Lick...
...largest refracting lens in use is that of the great Yerkes telescope, with an aperture of forty inches. The Lick lens is thirty-six inches in aperture; the Royal Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam has recently acquired a thirty- one inch photographic refractor; and the Pulkowa Observatory has a thirty inch lens, made by the late Alvan Clark of Cambridge. Greenwich and Washington have telescopes with apertures of twenty-six-inches. The largest instrument in the possession of the Harvard Observatory is the twenty four inch Bruce photographic telescope, mounted at Arequipa...
...work done by the different observatories varies greatly in character. Private observatories attend chiefly to some special research for which their equipments or situations are favorable. At Greenwich the work consists of testing chronometers for the navy; of transit reductions and determinations of time. The observatory at Pulkowa is pre-eminent for the extreme accuracy of its observations. To this end the apparatus is of a special design and of great accuracy; the methods adopted there sixty years ago are said still to be far in advance of those at present existing in any other government observatory. The Kiel Observatory...
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