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Observatory
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Observatory
An
observatory
is a location used for observing terrestrial or
celestial events
.
Astronomy
,
climatology
/
meteorology
,
geology
,
oceanography
and
volcanology
are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an
astronomical sextant
(for measuring the distance between
stars
) or
Stonehenge
(which has some alignments on astronomical phenomena).
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