Indonesia's oldest astronomical observatory, founded in 1923 near Lembang on the island of Java through the philanthropy of the tea planter Karel Albert Rudolf Bosscha and now operated by the Bandung Institute of Technology. It remains the principal center of professional astronomy in Southeast Asia.
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LocationLembang, West Java, Indonesia 1 Classification
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Source Bosscha Observatory (Wikipedia)
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1. Bosscha Observatory (Wikipedia)
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Lembang, West Java
Telescopes section
observe visual binary stars, conduct photometric studies on eclipsing binaries, image lunar craters, observe planets
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In Group: Optical Observatories of Asia and the Middle East, Lead sentence
Bosscha Observatory is the oldest modern observatory in Indonesia, and one of the oldest in Asia.
Operated By: Institut Teknologi Bandung, Infobox: organization
Institut Teknologi Bandung
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