Vienna Observatory
48°13′54.78″N 16°20′1.49″E / 48.2318833°N 16.3337472°E
Universitäts-Sternwarte Wien (Vienna Observatory) is an astronomical observatory in Vienna, Austria. The first observatory was built in 1753/1754 on the roof of one of the buildings of the University of Vienna.
A new observatory was built between 1874 and 1879, and was finally inaugurated by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1883. The main dome houses a refractor with a diameter of 68 centimeters and a focal length of 10.5 meters. At that time, this was the world's largest telescope.
Directors
- Maximilian Hell, 1755–1792
- Franz de Paula Triesnecker, 1792–1817
- Johann Josef von Littrow, 1819–?
- Karl Ludwig von Littrow, ?
- Edmund Weiss, 1878–?
- Kasimir Graff, 1928–1938
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