Talk:List of astronomical observatories

message: Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Telescopes for a suggested format for telescopes, astronomical observatories, and astronomical surveys.  --zandperl 13:30, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I give up trying to add Kamioka Observatory to the K section,
is it really necessary to have this unwiki-like table? -Wikibob | Talk 22:55, 2004 Mar 18 (UTC)
: Done. See meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables.  —John | Talk 23:02, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it (first format). Operational date is kinda irrelevant, place is not.  —John | Talk 02:37, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Kamioka Observatory

message: Is this list only ground-based astronomical observatories?  I don't see HST or SST listed.  If ground-based only, we should specify so in the introductory paragraph.  --zandperl 14:14, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Criteria for list

message: If so, it probably needs a specific column in the table.  It's the only unique identifier I'm aware of, and harvard has a list
of Observatory codes http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html, unfortunately, the longitude is listed, but I don't
see an explicit latitute or city/country name. Wikip rhyre (talk) 08:04, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the IAU number available? 

message: I think it looks a little better now, before there seemed to be no cohesive format. It still needs a fair bit of work including filling in dates, and standardizing locations. I think it is important to have a year of establishment for this list because of the wide range of dates. That way someone could tell at a glance weather the entry is a modern observatory or an historic observatory such as Uraniborg. 
HST and SST are not listed but SOHO is. I would vote for adding the others as well, any other opinions? --Nebular110 23:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List is now tableized

message: Why was Sproul Observatory replaced with Springwater Observatory, not the same.
AppleRaven 03:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sproul Observatory 

message: List of observatories redirects to this article. This seems to be wrong since there are many other types of observatories than just astronomical ones such as observatories for climatology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and volcanology. Maybe a new list or disambigulation should be put up to fix that redirect. 69.72.2.71 (talk) 21:05, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of observatories]]

message: OUCH! My old eyeballs can't take blue lettering on dark blue background. So I converted the offenders to white on blue. Here is a sample of one of the source codes for anyone else who needs them.
:
|European Gravitational Observatory 
|2003]]
| Cascina ,Italy]]
If you need to know more about doing this the main reference is Wikipedia:Colours#Overriding font colour. Regards to all. Have a good day.Trilobitealive (talk) 00:31, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Blue on blue lettering?

message: Shall Gaia from ESA be added to this list? - DutchTreat (talk) 13:12, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Gaia (spacecraft)|Gaia]] space observatory 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMath%E2%80%93Pierce_solar_telescope Jim Johnson 17:17, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need to add Mcmath-pierce solar observatory