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OBSERVATORIES AND CITIES.—Modern astronomical research work, which necessitates the long exposure of photographic plates and the observation of faint stars, is gradually separating old observatories from their historic surroundings and creating new buildings in more favourable situations. The Hamburg Observatory is now settled in its new site in Bergedorf, some distance away from the city, and the new ground is bristling with domes of the latest construction. Berlin Observatory is now on the move, taking up its new position in Neu Babelsberg, not very far from its astrophysical confrère at Potsdam. At the present time the question is being considered as to the removal or part removal of the Paris Observatory, as the conditions on the site now occupied are not conducive to the best observational work. Those unfamiliar with the present locality can obtain a good idea of it in relation to Paris from the excellent reproduction of a photograph by M. Baillaud which is given in the current number of The Observatory (June, No. 462).
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 91, 406–407 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091406a0
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