Shattuck Observatory

Shattuck Observatory is an astronomical owned and operated by Dartmouth College in , , United States. The observatory's most notable director was Edwin Brant Frost, who went on to be the director of the .
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  • Type: University building
  • Description: early observatory at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
  • Address: 15 Observatory Road, Hanover, NH 03755

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Green and Hood Museum of Art.

Park
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is a grass-covered field and common space at the center of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in , United States. is situated 1,000 feet southwest of Shattuck Observatory.

Museum
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The is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in . The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth was in 1772, making the collection among the oldest and largest, at about 65,000 objects, of any college or university museum in the United States. is situated 1,300 feet south of Shattuck Observatory.

Arts center
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is a multi-venue performing arts center at Dartmouth College in . The center, which was designed by Wallace Harrison and foreshadows his later design of Manhattan's , is the college's cultural hub. is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Shattuck Observatory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hanover and Norwich.

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is a college town in west central across the Connecticut River from . It is home to Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, whose historic campus dominates the center of the town.

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is a city of 3,600 people in eastern across the Connecticut River from . It is commuter town for nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River, and is home to some of the state of Vermont's wealthiest residents.

Neighborhood
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The encompasses the compact village center of . The village was developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century, benefiting in importance from the 1820 founding of what is now .

Shattuck Observatory

Latitude
43.70507° or 43° 42′ 18″ north
Longitude
-72.2856° or 72° 17′ 8″ west
Open location code
87M9PP47+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 49796726
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­university
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­observatory
Wiki­data ID
Q7490733
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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to Urdu—“Shattuck Observatory” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد شاتوك”
  • Japanese: “シャタック天文台”
  • Urdu: “شٹک رصدگاہ”

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