The word "observatory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a structure or room designed for scientific observation, such as a scientific laboratory or research center. Example sentence: The observatory at the top of the mountain provides a clear view of the night sky.
He is planning Britain's first "astrovillage", one that would house the largest public observatory in the world and boast a 100-seat auditorium, a 100-seat planetarium, a one-metre aperture telescope, radiomagnetic and solar telescopes.
A £14m national landscape discovery centre, which he describes as the north's answer to the Eden Project, will have an observatory when it is completed in a couple of years.
It is also the site of the biggest radioastronomical observatory in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (almaobservatory.org), a $550m project due for completion next year.
The multimillion-pound project would feature a hotel and draw in 100,000 people a year, four times the number currently able to use the observatory.
Many more had applied for a night of stargazing at the observatory, but numbers are strictly limited.
The revolutionary Alma observatory, the world's largest astronomical project, opens for tours next month.
The prize project was a hilltop rock observatory, which he termed an American counterpart to Stonehenge.
One observatory director, Harlow Shapley, actually measured a project's difficulty by the number of "girl-hours" required.
(The detectors that do this are delicate; recently, most of those on a similar observatory in Japan shattered spontaneously).By studying the ratios of the three sorts of neutrinos, SNO's scientists have worked out that one sort can turn into another.
The researchers' initial intention was to take advantage of what they assumed would be the pristine conditions found at such high altitude (the observatory is 5,079 metres above sea level) to measure typical background conditions of the atmosphere.
