Harvard College Observatory
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Harvard College Observatory, about 1900.
The Harvard College Observatory (or HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Department of Astronomy of Harvard. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was founded in 1839. With the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, it forms part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
External link
- HCO home page (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/hco/)