Pic du Midi Observatory

18782.0 m telescopeFrench CNRS

LocationFrance

Year1878

Size2.0 m telescope

OperatorFrench CNRS

About Pic du Midi Observatory

Perched at 2,877 m in the Pyrenees, reached by cable car. NASA used its long-run Moon photographs to select and map Apollo landing sites. The 2 m Bernard Lyot Telescope studies the Sun and stellar magnetism. A century of steady seeing made it a pioneer of planetary imaging.

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