Van Vleck Observatory (VVO, IAU code 298) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Wesleyan University. It was built in 1914 and named after the former head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at the university, Prof. John M. Van Vleck. It is located in Middletown, Connecticut (USA).
This has a surviving Great refractor, a long telescope with lens popular in the late 1800s, as well as some other telescopes.
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VanVleckObservatory (VVO, IAU code 298) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Wesleyan University. It was built in 1914 and named after...
VanVleck, Texas VanVleckObservatory, Connecticut (IAU code 298) VanVleck (crater) VanVleck House and Barn VanVleck House and Gardens VanVleck Independent...
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...
This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and...
aperture.The second largest refracting telescope in the world is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor, used for astronomical and scientific observation...
Exley Science Center; Shanklin and Hall-Atwater Laboratories; the VanVleckObservatory; Fayerweather with Beckham Hall; Russell House, a National Historic...
December 4, 1944) was an American astronomer. He was the director of VanVleckObservatory. He was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts to Frederick and Lydia...
1960–71, after serving as an assistant, he became director of the VanVleckObservatory; the second to hold that position. During his career he computed...
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college or university, which is currently conserved at Wesleyan's VanVleckObservatory. Wesleyan remained a leader in educational progress throughout its...
Frederick Slocum – first professor of astronomy, director of the VanVleckObservatory (1915–44) Richard Slotkin (MAAE Wesleyan graduate) – Olin Professor...
Stearns (1892–1972), American astronomer at Wesleyan University and VanVleckObservatory who measured a large number of stellar parallaxes. The official...
He was a chair of the department. He was acting director of the VanVleckObservatory from 1918–1920. He was involved with Mathematics at Wesleyan until...
brightness variations of KH 15D were discovered at Wesleyan University's VanVleckObservatory in 1995 by Dr. William Herbst and his then-master's student Kristin...
Surveys : a meeting in memory of Nicholas Sanduleak, May 9–11, 1991, VanVleckObservatory, Middletown, Conn. Edited by A.G.D. Philip, and Arthur R. Upgren...
( 2007) where he received honorary doctorates. In 2007, delivered the VanVleck lectures at the University of Minnesota. The University of Glasgow honored...
1979, and the Jansky Lectureship before the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Purcell was also inducted into his Fraternity's (Phi Kappa Sigma) Hall...
was hired by John Daniel Runkle to work in the United States Naval Observatory's Nautical Almanac Office, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1862...
Paris Observatory. Newcomb used the "new" data to revise Hansen's tables. In 1875 he was offered the post of director of the Harvard College Observatory but...
working there on the magnetic behavior of molecules with John Hasbrouck VanVleck, who later won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. She earned a...
Gamma Ray Observatory was named in honor of Compton. The Compton effect is central to the gamma ray detection instruments aboard the observatory. Compton...
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