Sentence examples for observatory first from inspiring English sources

When it reopens, it will have one of the world's most advanced planetariums and dozens of new astronomy exhibits, as well as the 12-inch telescope and an instrument for tracking the sun that were installed when the observatory first opened in 1935.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory first examined the remnant in 1999, right after the satellite's launch.

When NASA's SWIFT space observatory first spotted it 10 days ago, observers thought it was a massive star blowing up as a supernova and expected it to fade within hours or even minutes.

"In 2013, the record at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory first crossed the 400 ppm threshold.

To see the presence of a solar cycle, or Hale cycle, in the annual means at the Indian observatories, third-order residuals from the best fitting curves for all days annual means of D, H and Z together with the 11-year and 22-year sunspot cycles, for the period from 1958 to 2009, are plotted in Figs. 6(a)–6(c).

Set in the grounds of Jodrell Bank, the UK's iconic observatory, the first Bluedot festival takes place from 22-24 July 2016. 22-24 July 2016

Hale died in 1938, and construction of the telescope was halted during World War II (1939 45), but eventually, in 1949, the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory saw first light.

The observatory's first major telescope, a 91-cm (36-inch) refractor with optics by Alvan Clark & Sons, went into use in 1888 and remained the largest in the world until the completion of the 102-cm (40-inch) refractor at Yerkes Observatory in 1897.

The Lick Observatory, the first permanent mountaintop observatory in the world, runs at about $2.5 million per year.

The Lick Observatory's first director, Edward Holden, bought one such souvenir in Germany in 1896.

The new $8 billion price tag doesn't include operating costs of about $780 million for the far-seeing infrared observatory's first 5 years in space.