Caption: Saturn's rings were tilted 26.5[degrees] from our line of sight when Damian Peach captured this image with the 106-cm f/17 Cassegrain at
Pic du Midi Observatory on June 11, 2017.
These representations of the albedo features recall some of the more detailed studies previously made at
Pic du Midi Observatory. (1) Seeing quality varied from day to day, and is reflected in the degree of detail shown.
Using the high-sensitivity NARVAL spectropolarimeter installed at the Bernard-Lyot telescope at the
Pic du Midi Observatory in France, a team of astronomers detected the effect of a magnetic field (known as the Zeeman effect) in the light emitted by Vega.
Scientists at the world-renowned
Pic du Midi observatory in the Pyrenees say light from surrounding cities is preventing them from getting a good look at the heavens.
The researchers used instruments on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope atop Hawaii's Manna Kea and the Bernard-Lyot Telescope at the
Pic du Midi Observatory in France to record the polarization of light from the star and the magnetic splitting of spectral lines.
Brunier, an award-winning science journalist, and Lagrange, who is director of research at the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), begin with a history of telescopes, followed by profiles of 36 land-based observatories, including the
Pic du Midi Observatory in France, the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile, the Parkes Radio Observatory in Australia, and the Narayangaon Interferometer in India.
This summer a new museum for stargazers, the Musee des Etoiles, opened at the
Pic du Midi observatory, one of Europe's oldest and highest observatories, sited at 2,877 metres in the French Pyrenees.
Damningly, a series of photographs taken that night through the 24-inch refractor at
Pic du Midi Observatory in France failed to record anything out of the ordinary.
(9) For a map based upon visual and photographic observations made at the
Pic du Midi observatory during 1942-'44 on the basis of the 88-day period, see G.
17 at the
Pic du Midi Observatory in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France, showed them close together but distinct.
French astronomer Pierre Guerin recorded Saturn in 1969 through the 1.07-meter (42-inch) reflector at
Pic du Midi Observatory. His negatives appeared to show a faint, diffuse glow that extended outward from the planet's cloud tops and was separated from the inner edge of ring C by a distinct gap.
The same features have been seen by professionals at Meudon Observatory,
Pic du Midi Observatory etc.
