The opportunity to use a large professional telescope at a historic and renowned observatory is the dream of most amateur astronomers, beginner or advanced. Most of the time, we have to battle against ...
Prepare to be transformed. Pic du Midi de Bigorre is a magnificent mountain in the French Pyrenees topped by an observatory in a unique symbiosis of science and tourism. Since it was first built 150 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first visitors to the top of the 2,877-metre Pic du Midi de Bigorre didn’t come to ski. Nor, of course, did ...
Founded in 1904, the Société préhistorique française (SPF) is one of the oldest archaeological societies. In 1910 it was recognized as performing a public service and was awarded the “Grand Prix de ...
R. Radau, LES OBSERVATOIRES DE MONTAGNE: LES NOUVEAUX OBSERVATOIRES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES DU PUY-DE-DOME ET DU PIC-DU-MIDI DE BIGORRE, Revue des Deux Mondes (1829-1971), TROISIÈME PÉRIODE, Vol. 13, No. 4 ...
There are very few wonders in the world that can compare to the vast magnificence of the night sky. Littered with thousands of stars and far away planets, for ages people have looked up at the sky and ...
AT a recent sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville made a communication, with reference to the proposed Physical Observatory on the Pic du Midi, in the Pyrenees. He ...
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