Allegheny Observatory
The Allegheny Observatory is an observatory in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania , USA. The institute was founded in 1859 by the Allegheny Telescope Association, a group of wealthy industrialists, as a public educational institution. In 1867, however, it was donated to the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh. Samuel Pierpont Langley was appointed first director in 1867.
The current observatory building was built between 1900 and 1912. Its largest telescopes are the 30-inch Thaw Memorial Refractor and the 30-inch Keeler Memorial Reflector .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′ 57.1 ″ N , 80 ° 1 ′ 15 ″ W.