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Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
* 1800 BC - Babylonian star catalog * 1700 BC - Stonehenge * 432 BC - Athens observatory on Lycabettus Hill used by Meton and Phaeinus * 350s BC - Eudoxus of Cnidos observatory, school at Cyzicus * 350 BC - Shin Shen's star catalog has almost 800 entries * 330 BC - Aristotle _On the Heavens_ [De Caelo] * 200 BC - Astrolabe used by Greeks * 150 BC - Rhodes observatory * 129 BC - Hipparchus' star catalog * 105 BC - Alexandria observatory and College of Technology under Heron * 52 BC - Shou-chang uses armillary ring * 141 - Claudius Ptolemy _Megale Mathematike Syntaxis_ [or Almagest] * 499 - Aryabhata _Aryabhatiya_ * 646 - Chomsongdae observatory near Kyongju, South Korea * 790 - Gundishapur observations by al-Nihawandi * 813 - Baghdad School of Astronomy * 828 - al-Shammasiyya observatory of Abi Mansur near Baghdad * 831-2 - Mount Qasiyun observatory near Damascus * 840 - al-Farghani _Compendium of the Science of the Stars_ * 887 - Raqqa observatory of al-Battani in Syria * 963 - al-Sufi's star catalog _Book of the Fixed Stars_ * 988 - Baghdad observatory of al-Quhi and al-Buzjani * ca. 900 - Hanlin Academy observatory in Northern China * 994 - Ray observatory of al-Khujandi near Tehran, Iran * 1000 - Mokattam observatory, Egypt for al-Hakim II * 1023 - Hamadan observatory * ca. 1030 - _Treasury of Optics_ by Ibn al-Haytham of Egypt [Alhazen] * 1074-92 - Malikshah observatory at Isfahan used by al-Khayyam * 1119-25 - Cairo al-Bataihi observatory for al-Afdal * 1252-72 - Alphonsine tables recorded * 1259 - Maragha Observatory and library of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi by Mangu under Khan Hulagu * ca. 1270 - Terrace for Managing Heaven 26 observatory network of Guo Shoujing under Khubilai Khan * 1417 - _Speculum Planetarum_ by Simones de Selandia * 1420 - Samarkand observatory of Ulugh Beg * 1467-71 - Observatory at Oradea Hungary for King Corvinus * 1472 - Nuremberg observatory * 1560 - Kassel observatory under Hessian Landgrave Wilhelm IV * 1575-80 - Istanbul observatory of al-Din under Murad III * 1580 - Royal Danish Astronomical Observatory at Hveen (Uraniborg) for Tycho Brahe * 1600 - Prague observatory * 1603 - Johann Bayer's _Uranometria_ * 1608 - Hans Lippershey tries to patent an optical refracting telescope * 1609 - Galileo Galilei builds his first optical refracting telescope * 1632 - Leiden University observatory * 1641 - William Gascoigne invents telescope cross hairs * 1661 - James Gregory proposes an optical reflecting telescope * 1667 - Paris observatoire * 1668 - Isaac Newton constructs the first optical reflecting telescope * 1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory of England * 1705 - Berlin observatory * 1725 - St. Petersburg observatory at Royal Academy * 1733 - Chester Moor Hall invents the achromatic lens refracting telescope * 1740 - Indian observatories of Jai Singh at Dehli, Jaipur, Madras * 1758 - John Dolland reinvents the achromatic lens * 1789 - William Herschel finishes a 49-inch optical reflecting telescope---located in Slough, England * 1761 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle 62 observing station network for observing transit of Venus (& Mercury) * 1769 - Short reflectors used at 63 station network for transit of Venus * 1840 - J.W. Draper invents astronomical photography and photographs the Moon * 1845 - Lord Rosse finishes the Birr Castle 72-inch optical reflecting telescope---located in Parsonstown, Ireland * 1871 - German Astronomical Association organized network of 13 (later 16) observatories for stellar proper motion studies * 1872 - Henry Draper invents astronomical spectral photography and photographs the spectrum of Vega * 1887 - Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically * 1889 - Astronomical Society of the Pacific founded * 1890 - Albert Michelson proposes the stellar interferometer * 1892 - George Hale finishes a spectroheliograph---allows the Sun to be photographed in the light of one element only * 1897 - Alvan Clark finishes the Yerkes 40-inch optical refracting telescope---located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin * 1917 - Mount Wilson 100-inch optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located in Mount Wilson, California * 1919 - International Astronomical Union (IAU) founded * 1930 - Bernard-Ferdinand Lyot invents the coronagraph * 1930 - Karl Jansky builds a 30-meter long rotating aerial radio telescope * 1933 - Bernard-Ferdinand Lyot invents the Lyot filter * 1934 - Bernhard Schmidt finishes the first 14-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope * 1936 - Palomar 18-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located in Palomar, California * 1937 - Grote Reber builds a 31-foot radio telescope * 1947 - Bernard Lovell and his group complete the Jodrell Bank 218-foot non-steerable radio telescope * 1949 - Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located in Palomar, California * 1949 - Palomar 200-inch optical reflecting telescope begins regular operation---located in Palomar, California * 1957 - Bernard Lovell and his group complete the Jodrell Bank 250-foot steerable radio telescope * 1957 - Peter Scheuer publishes his PhD method for obtaining source counts of spatially unresolved sources * 1960 - Martin Ryle tests Earth rotation aperature synthesis * 1960 - Owens Valley 27-meter radio telescopes begin operation---located in Big Pine, California * 1962 - European Southern Observatory (ESO) founded * 1963 - Arecibo 300-meter radio telescope begins operation---located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico * 1964 - Ryle 1-mile radio interferometer begins operation---located in Cambridge, England * 1965 - Owens Valley 40-meter radio telescope begins operation---located in Big Pine, California * 1967 - First VLBI images---183 km baseline * 1969 - Observations start at Big Bear Solar Observatory---located in Big Bear, California * 1970 - Cerro Tololo 158-inch optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located in Cerro Tololo, Chile * 1970 - Kitt Peak National Observatory 158-inch optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located near Tucson, Arizona * 1974 - Anglo-Australian 153-inch optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located in Siding Springs, Australia * 1975 - Gerald Smith, Frederick Landauer, and James Janesick use a CCD to observe Uranus---first astronomical CCD observation * 1978 - Multiple Mirror 176-inch equivalent optical/infrared reflecting telescope begins operation---located in Amado, Arizona * 1979 - UKIRT 150-inch infrared reflecting telescope begins operation---located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii * 1979 - Canada-France-Hawaii 140-inch optical reflecting telescope begins operation---located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii * 1980 - Completion of construction of the VLA---located in Socorro, New Mexico * 1993 - Keck 10-meter optical/infrared reflecting telescope begins operation---located at Mauna Kea, Hawaii * 1997 - The Japanese Halca satellite begins operations, producing first VLBI observations from space. --- 25000 km maximum baseline * 1998 - First light at VLT1, the 8.2 m ESO telescope. * 2001 - First light at VLTI. Operations in the interferometry mode of VLT start at ESO --- 103 m baseline
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