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The original partial of a Observatory was written by a important Dane Architect Theophilus Hansen as well as was a initial investigate Institution built in Greece (1842) after a concern from a Ottoman Empire. The Hill of a Nymphs was selected as a place to built a Observatory, a Hill important from antiquity, where a Nymphs were worshipped as well as next to a single of a important Observatories of a 5th century, where Metos Heliotropion was placed. The Hill of a Nymphs is aligned with a single of a many celebrated as well as most appropriate recorded meteorological / astronomical Observatories, a Tower of a Winds, which is additionally a emblem of a Royal Meteorological Society as well as a severe copy of which was built during a University of Oxford. The brand new Observatory upon tip of a Hill of a Nymphs is a landmark in Athens, facing a Parthenon as well as has prolonged been used by Greek as well as unfamiliar Astronomers as a basis for astronomical, meteorological, geoastrophysical measurements as well as observations in a 160 years history. Today a buildings embody an Astrogeophysics Museum as well as it additionally houses clocks, telescopes as well as other instrument of a 19th century as well as an extensive 19 century astrogeophysics library. The National Observatory, Athens is handling currently 5 Research Institutes as well as provides a facilities for graduate student precision in collaboration with Greek as well as unfamiliar Universities. It hosts a UNESCO Chair for Natural Disasters as well as operates a National Seismological Network as well as it is participating in a OPTICON as well as other general investigate networks, hosting a Greek Focal Point upon a Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS).

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