History of Astronomical institute
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| September 11, 1873 | The first astronomical observation was made at Tashkent.
This event marks the birthday of the Tashkent Astronomical Observatory.
A year later the institution was equipped with the Repsold transit
circle, the merz 6-inch refractor and the Hohwu clock ordered in Germany. |
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| 1895 | The 13-inch telescope was put into operation. Its lenses were made
in Paris by Brothers Henry and the mounting was developed by Repsold
firm in Humburg. The photographic observations of open stellar clusters,
nebulae in the Milky Way and minor planets were started. |
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| 1928 | The Time laboratory equipped with a transit instrument began regular
time signal transmission for geodesic and topographic researches in
the region. |
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| 1930 | Kitab International Latitude Station started regular observation. |
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| 1932 | The Solar laboratory was put into operation to keep the Sun under
continuous water running till now. |
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| 1966 | Tashkent astronomical observatory was founded on the Astronomical
Institute of Uzbek Academy of Sciences, later being named after Ulugh
Beg. |
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| 1970 | Mount Maidanak Observatory was founded on the 2800-m top at a distance
of 40 km south of the town of Kitab. The site is famous for high-quality
observations in a wide spectral range. |
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| 1989 | The instrument for full-disk helioseismology as the second station
of the IRIS (International Research on the Interior of the Sun) project
started at the 2300-m Kumbel mountain located 70 km North-East from
Tashkent. |
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| 1996 | An instrument was put into operation in Tashkent of the Taiwan Oscillation
Network, a ground-based network to measure solar K-line intensity
oscillation to study the internal structure of the Sun. |