Shattuck Observatory
Shattuck Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The observatory's most notable director was Edwin Brant Frost, who went on to be the director of the Yerkes Observatory.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- 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 Rauner Special Collections Library and The Green.
Rauner Special Collections Library
Library
The Rauner Special Collections Library, housed in Webster Hall, is the primary special collections and archival library of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Rauner Special Collections Library is situated 710 feet west of Shattuck Observatory.
The Green
Park
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The Green is a grass-covered field and common space at the center of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The Green is situated 1,000 feet southwest of Shattuck Observatory.
Hood Museum of Art
Museum
The Hood Museum of Art is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. 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. Hood Museum of Art is situated 1,300 feet south of Shattuck Observatory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hanover and Norwich.
Hanover
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Hanover is a college town in west central New Hampshire across the Connecticut River from Norwich, Vermont. It is home to Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, whose historic campus dominates the center of the town.
Norwich
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Norwich is a city of 3,600 people in eastern Vermont across the Connecticut River from Hanover, New Hampshire. 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.
Norwich Village Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Norwich Village Historic District encompasses the compact village center of Norwich, Vermont. The village was developed mainly in the first half of the 19th century, benefiting in importance from the 1820 founding of what is now Norwich University.
Shattuck Observatory
- Categories: astronomical observatory, building, observatory, and education
- Location: Town of Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.70507° or 43° 42′ 18″ northLongitude
-72.2856° or 72° 17′ 8″ westOpen location code
87M9PP47+2QOpenStreetMap ID
way 49796726OpenStreetMap feature
building=universityOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=observatoryWikidata 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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