Mauna Kea Observatory

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an astronomical observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, situated at an altitude of 13,600 feet (4,145 meters).

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Lenormand managed to jump publicly from an observatory and survive.
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The instrument is attached to the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, northwest of Sydney, Australia.
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Because GRBs are so rare, the best way to look for them is with an automated observatory.
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I visited the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico two years ago, where the telescope taking data for BOSS is located.
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Nearly 700 people have been killed in the fighting in recent days, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Captain Vane came from the observatory, his face blazing with excitement and oily with heat, to announce the fact.
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Sometimes the Time Observatory would pinpoint an age and hover over it while his companions took painstaking historical notes.
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The iris of the human eye dilates and contracts with every shift of illumination, and the Time Observatory had an iris too.
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He remained on his feet just long enough to see his Time Observatory dim and vanish.
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Ascending into the Time Observatory a thought came unbidden into his mind: Others he saved, himself he could not save.
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