Temples eternal stars

There are a lot of things and phenomena beyond the control of man. Faced with them, we are aware of their greatness, our own fragility and the fragility of the world we have built themselves. Perhaps the more likely it is suitable for the description of distant stars and capricious weather. Nothing is more sobering when attacks its own greatness, as an awareness of the vastness of the universe, is revealed to us in the night sky. And there is nothing that shows us the weakness and vulnerability, as the celebration of the elements, before which baffled all our technical and scientific achievements.

Perhaps with all his scientific observatory buildings can be attributed to the most attractive and somewhat romantic. There is probably felt most acutely not amenable to realize the dimensions of the cosmos, the eternal existence of the stars and planets in comparison with human life. If deep down you feel about the same, welcome under the cut. Here we have compiled some of the most interesting observatories and weather stations, and located in a very beautiful corners of our planet and is an interesting architectural patterns.

Observatory "Sphinx» (Sphinx), Switzerland h4>















It was built in 1937 in the town of Jungfraujoch (Jungfraujoch) in the Swiss Alps, at an altitude of 3571 m above sea level. This is the second highest observation platform in Switzerland and one of the highest in the world. The observatory is still used for scientific purposes. Tourists can walk on the terrace surrounding the observatory , with views of the Great Aletsch Glacier (German. Grosser Aletschgletscher). You can get to the observatory on the tunnel and elevator shaft, laid in the rock of the highest mountain in Europe train station.

Observatory Pic du Midi (Pic du Midi), France h4>







Observatory founded in 1881 and completed in 1908. Located on a mountain top Midi de Bigorre (Pic du Midi-de -Bigorr) in the Pyrenees, at an altitude of 2877 m above sea level. Observatory acting, equipped with several telescopes, including the largest in France 2 m and a coronagraph.

Griffith Observatory, United States h4>











Located in Los Angeles, on the slopes of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. Opened in 1935. In fact, it is a complex consisting of an observatory, planetarium and an exhibition hall. This institution was originally created for the public and free admission. There are various exhibitions, space-related equipment on display for astronomical observations.

Observatory Alasht, Iran h4>







This tiny observatory size of a kiosk located in the Iranian province of Mazandaran, on the outskirts of town Alasht. Translated from Iran it means "eagle refuge."

Observatory "Einstein Tower» (Einsteinturm), Germany h4>







Architect Erich Mendelsohn, who designed this observatory, as if inspired by the fantasy works. The observatory was built in 1924 in Potsdam, Telegrafenberg on the mountain. Although she was named after Einstein, and are built with the purpose of the experimental confirmation of the theory of relativity, but the great physicist had not been here. Now observatory is rather historical and tourist attraction, although there still hold surveillance for Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics.

Observatory Dominion (Dominion Observatory), Canada h4>





Built in Romanesque style in 1902 in Ottawa, the observatory operated until 1970. It was established the largest in the history of Canada at the time the 38-cm refractor, with it will be available to the public for the entire duration of the observatory. After the reorganization of Canadian academic institutions observatory was closed and in 1974 it was sent to the telescope Helen Sawyer Hogg Observatory of the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. Now the Dominion Observatory are offices of one of the units of the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada.

Urania Observatory (Urania), Switzerland h4>





This public observatory was built in 1907 in Zurich. Urania - the muse of astronomy in Greek mythology. Tower height 51 m, it installed a refractor with a 30-cm aperture, allowing to carry out observations with the 600-fold increase, although the most commonly used 150- and 205-fold. The telescope itself is mounted on the column that is not connected with the tower and passes through it until the building foundation. Telescope, weighing about 12 tons was designed by Carl Zeiss, and for its time was a technical masterpiece.

Submillimeter Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory), USA h4>
 





The observatory was built in 1985 on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. In the vicinity of the sites are located her with a telescope Gemini, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and infrared telescopes NASA. In general, it is ideal for astronomers. The main tool in this sphere is 10 silver, 4-meter telescope for observations in the submillimeter range, from 350 to 1300 micrometers. In 2016 CSO plan to dismantle and return the site of its original appearance.

Weather station on the mountain Snowball (Śnieżka), Poland h4>





The only weather station in this collection. Just up the hill is the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, the station is located on the Polish side. It was built in 1974 at an altitude of 1,620 meters above sea level. There is also a restaurant, whose windows offer beautiful views of the gently sloping hillsides.

Arecibo Observatory (Arecibo), Puerto Rico h4>









One of the most spectacular objects in our collection - Arecibo Observatory, built in 1963. It is located at an altitude of 497 m above sea level. A giant bowl diameter of 304 m and a depth of 50 m is one of the world's largest radio telescopes. This is not an artificial pit reflector built inside a natural sinkhole. For the suspension of the antenna feed telescope reflector used over many kilometers of cables.



And finally, if you suddenly will be going to Australia, you may want to look at a place Koala Crescent, Coonabarabran. Here owners rent guest house, which was built next to the real small observatory.

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