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Defunct Astronomical Observatories: Biay So, Markree Observatory, Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory, Koenigsberg Observatory


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Biay So (English: White Elephant) was the campus of the Polish Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory, located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains. This area belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interbellum, but now is a part of Ukraine. Biay So, completed in the summer of 1938, was the highest-elevated, permanently inhabited, building in Poland . Ruins of the Observatory According to Wadysaw Midowicz, the first and only director of the observatory, the construction of "Biay So" was suggested by a group of influential Warsaw astronomers who managed to convince General Leon Berbecki, director of the influential Airborne and Antigas Defence League, to support it. General Tadeusz Kasprzycki, minister of military affairs, also backed the construction of the observatory. Construction of this impressive building began in the summer of 1936 with an official ceremony for the placing of the cornerstone. Biay So was a very expensive structure with total costs exceeding one million Polish zotys, a huge burden for the state budget of the time. Its walls were made of local sandstone, and due to lack of roads all material was carried to the site by local workers, Hutsuls, their horses and soldiers of the 49th Hutsul Rifle Regiment . The design was based on the Przemyl castle and shaped like a letter "L" with a tower. "Biay So" was 5 floors high, with 43 rooms and 57 windows. The upper floors were occupied by astronomers and meteorologists, most of whom worked for the State Meteorological Institute and Astronomical Observatory of the Warsaw University. Their work was to carry out meteorological observations for Polish Air Force. In the lower levels, th... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15469195


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158298143
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 20
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 45 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158298145
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Biay So, Markree Observatory, Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory, Koenigsberg Observatory
  • Width: 229 mm


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