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	Wikinfo \| Nice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nice (SAMPA and IPA pronunciation: [ni:s] as in "niece"; Italian Nizza, Provençal Niça or Nissa) is a city in Southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Cannes and Monaco.
		Nice (Nicaea) was founded about two thousand years ago by the Phocaeans of Marseille, and received the name of Nikaia in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (Nike being the goddess of victory).
		In 1543 Nice was attacked by the united forces of Francis I and Barbarossa; and, though the inhabitants, repulsed the assault which succeeded the terrible bombardment, they were ultimately compelled to surrender, and Barbarossa was allowed to pillage the city and to carry off 2,500 captives.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=nice (915 words)

	Nice Hotel - Guide of Hotels in Nice, France.
		Nice (Nicaea) has been founded about two thousand years ago by the Greeks of Marseille and received the name of Nikaïa in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (Nike being the goddess of victory).
		Distant viewIn 1543 Nice was attacked by the united forces of Francis I and Barbarossa; and, though the inhabitants repulsed the assault which succeeded the terrible bombardment, they were ultimately compelled to surrender, and Barbarossa was allowed to pillage the city and to carry off 2,500 captives.
		Benedictine Abbey of St Pons, founded 778, rebuilt in the 11th century: A Romanesque abbey with a Baroque belltowerBy a treaty concluded in 1860 between the Sardinian king and Napoleon III it was again transferred to France, and the cession was ratified by over 25,000 electors out of a total of 30,700.
	www.hotels-france-travel.com /ville/nice/nice-hotel.htm (1088 words)

	Nice Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Observatoire de Nice (Nice Observatory) is located in Nice, France on the summit of Mont Gros.
		The observatory was initiated in 1879 by the banker Raphaël Bischoffsheim.
		It was outperformed one year later by the 36-inch (91-cm) refractor at the Lick Observatory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nice_Observatory (143 words)

	Nice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nice (IPA: [nis]; Occitan: Niça, Niçard: Nissa, Italian: Nizza) is a city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Genoa, with 933,080 inhabitants in the metropolitan area at the 1999 census.
		Nice (Nicaea) was founded in the 5th century BC by the Greeks of Massilia (Marseille) and received the name of Νικαία ("Nikaia") in honour of a victory over the neighbouring Ligurians (Nike being the Greek goddess of victory).
		In 1543 Nice was attacked by the united forces of Francis I and Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha; and, though the inhabitants repulsed the assault which succeeded the terrible bombardment, they were ultimately compelled to surrender, and Barbarossa was allowed to pillage the city and to carry off 2,500 captives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nice,_France (1459 words)

	Observatory, Nice
		Nice - Observatory; Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
		In the northeast of Nice, on the edge of Mont Gros (375m/1,230ft) and accessible by the Grande Corniche D2564, stand the white buildings, visible from a long distance, of the Observatory built by Charles Garnier.
		Unauthorized duplication in part or whole without prior written consent prohibited by international laws.
	www.planetware.com /nice/observatory-f-az-cgo.htm (97 words)

	hist7_en
		A Report was established on the situation of the Observatory and remedies were applied to it.
		The creation of the Faculty of Science at the University of Nice (1965) having attracted the scientists of Paris, teacher - researchers positions were created under the influence of Pecker as well as a laboratory of astrophysics closely linked to the Observatory.
		The Observatory was the only laboratory in the region to be equipped with what was at this time the most powerful computer dedicated to the astrophysics.
	www.obs-nice.fr /histoire-nice_en/hist7_en.html (705 words)

	Belgrade Astronomical Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The decree of its founding conjointly with the Meteorological Observatory was signed on 20 March (7 April) 1887 by the Minister of Education and Church Affaires of Kingdom of Serbia Milan Kujundzic on the initiative of Milan Nedeljkovic (Belgrade 27.
		The Observatory's direction was entrusted to the Observatory's Council, at the head of which was the director and Council's president M. Milankovic, with members Anton Bilimovic, V. Miskovic and Pavle Savic (Popovic 1951).
		In 1996 the Observatory organized the Second Yugoslav-Romanian Round Table on collaboration in astromony in Belgarde and the Astophysics Section at the 18th Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics and Ionized Gases in Kotor.
	www.aob.bg.ac.yu /history/index.html (3904 words)

	NiceNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Nice Observatory is an exceptional site, including a preserved historical monument in grounds of 35 hectares.
		In addition to its scientific missions, the Observatory also respects its mission of preservation of the architectural and astronomical heritage of this building, constructed by Eiffel and Garnier.
		The first follows the traces of Nice’s ports from the “Ponchettes” to the current Port Lympia, the second winds round the “Baumettes” area with its atmosphere from another era.
	www.nicetourism.com /pro/NiceNews/6/GB/TA4.html (364 words)

	RedOrbit - Reference Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nice Observatory -- The Nice Observatory (Observatoire de Nice) is an astronomical observatory located in Nice, France on the summit of Mount Gros (fr: Mont Gros).
		The 76 centimeters (30 inches) refractor telescope that went operationnal in 1888 was at that time the world's largest telescope, it was outperformed one year later by the Lick 36-inches (91 centimeters) refractor.
		As a scientific institution the Nice Observatory doesn't exists anymore, it was merged with the CERGA in 1988 to form the C�te d'Azur Observatory.
	www.redorbit.com /education/reference_library/?article_id=15 (159 words)

	Ressources Astronomiques en France
		The Nançay Radio Observatory is a scientific department (the Unité Scientifique de Nançay) of the Observatoire de Paris, and it is also associated to the CNRS (the French National Scientific Research Centre).
		The Cote d'Azur Observatory (OCA : Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur) was founded in 1988 by the merging of two institutes: Nice Observatory and the Center for Study and Research in Geodynamics and Astronomy (CERGA : Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches en Geodynamique et en Astronomie).
		The Strasbourg astronomical Observatory is an institute of the Université Louis Pasteur.
	cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr /astroweb/www-fr.html (4268 words)

	A family portrait of the Alpha Centauri System
		Their masses nicely bracket that of their neighbour star, and they are only slightly older than the Sun.
		In addition to providing general information about stellar evolution, the detailed study of Alpha Centauri A and B is particular interesting as it allows verification of our current knowledge about the composition, structure and indeed, future development, of our own main energy source, the Sun.
		His colleague Fréderic Thévenin at the Nice Observatory adds: "Alpha Centauri is not only the nearest stellar system - thanks to these studies, it is now also the best known one!".
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-03/eso-afp032003.php (1489 words)

	Azur Villa Services - Villas and Apartments in the Nice Area
		Nice and its region became the Côte d'Azur, so often painted and photographed.
		This personal paradise is overlooking the city of Nice with a 170° outstanding view of the coast, fromSaint Jean Cap Ferrat to the Cape of Antibes and the islands of Lerins in the Bay of Cannes
		This is a beautiful private villa lying on the hilltops of Vence with stunning views of the ocean (almost from Nice to the Cap d'Antibes) and of the other side of the valley towards Grasse.
	www.azur-villas.co.uk /area-nice.html (381 words)

	Regner Trampedach's homepage
		The RSAA is housed in the Mount Stromlo Observatory, which was a really nice observatory, with 6 telescopes in various sizes and for various purposes.
		The observatory was actually in place before they even thought about setting up a capitol, Canberra (which means [meeting-place] in the local aboriginal language) in 1929.
		On January 18, 2003, around 14:15, this threat of light-pollution was turned obsolete as the whole observatory burnt down in the most catastrophic bush-fire on record.
	msowww.anu.edu.au /~art/index.shtml (687 words)

	Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet2.scs.cs.nyu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The four telescopes, belonging to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and located in the Atacama desert in Chile, are usually operated independently for faint astronomical observations, but up to three telescopes can be operated together for aperture synthesis observations of bright objects.
		The 100-inch (2.54-meter) Hooker Telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was used by Edwin Hubble to discover galaxies and the redshift.
		The 0.76-meter Nice refractor (in France) that became operational in 1888 was at that time the world's largest refractor.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Telescope (2146 words)

	Friends and Observatories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The observatory dome is fitted with a windowed Lanphier shutter permitting observations in comfort throughout the year.
		The observatory is open for public observation on a regular basis.
		Shezer Hall and its observatory was destroyed by a fire that took place on March 9, 1989.
	www.thrushobservatory.org /friend_obs.htm (831 words)

	The Octagonal Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A commercial observatory costs a fortune and my estimate is that it would cost 10x more than a damage-it-yourself DIY version.
		Plans for a nice circular observatory were dashed when my material of choice (metal roof) would have created a nice Faraday cage to protect my GPS telescope from ever getting a fix.
		A model of the observatory in POV-RAY was created to make sure I had all the dimensions right.
	www.lpople.btinternet.co.uk (452 words)

	Nee-Bee Observatory
		The observatory has a unique variation of the traditional roll off roof design.
		My son and I live in Toronto, Canada and what you have is a totally different kind of life away from 5.2 million souls all living twenty feet from each other.
		Your observatory is one of the best executed roll off's that I've noted to date.
	lazyb.com /lbo (401 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was, however 35 miles from my home, and while a nice observatory to visit, it was not a nice place to overnight, as my photometry interests required.
		My interest in building a remote observatory was born on a very cold night one January.
		The road to building a remote, robotic observatory is a long one.
	www.mtco.com /~jgunn/intro.htm (256 words)

	Biking around Southeast France
		The main roads out of Nice to interesting places to the north are heavily trafficed and not always that pretty till you get out of town, so for going to places like the Col de Turini, it's best to put the bikes on a car and drive a ways out of town.
		Nice - Eze - Col d'Eze (June 2, 2005) Between Eze and Col d'Eze it was so steep I though my heart was going to explode.
		Nice - Menton - Col de la Madone - Eze - Nice (July 2, 2005) This is similar to one of Lance Armstrong's training rides when he lived in Nice.
	www.psi.edu /~obrien/Bike_Fr/bikerides.html (630 words)

	Information Circulars: 1993 - 1996
		Couteau of the Nice Observatory (future collaboration with the Toulouse Observatory is also expected), a photometric data base for star systems is being compiled at the Besancson Observatory, and will later be generalized to include all categories of systems.
		Jasinta and Soegiartini of the Bosscha Observatory, Indonesia.
		In 1928 he obtained a grant to work as an assistant at the Belgian Royal Observatory, with which he continued to be associated until his retirement in 1967 as Head of the Department of Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics.
	ad.usno.navy.mil /wds/dsl/Comm26/circ9396.html (3175 words)

	Astronomia Paleani collegamenti - O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Copernicus satellite, otherwise known as the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 3 (OAO-3), obtained high resolution far- (900-1560 Å) and near- (1650-3150 Å) ultraviolet spectra of 551 objects, primarily bright stars, from 1972 to 1981.
		The Rome Astronomical Observatory is one of the 12 Astronomical Observatories in Italy.
		Their istitutional task is to undertake research in astronomy for the advancement of scientific knowledge and to develop and maintain world class instrumentation and facilities.
	www.paleani.it /astronomia/astroweb/aw_o.htm (1433 words)

	nice_trip
		Kathy and I traveled to Nice, France on June 4 primarily to observe the transit of Venus at the Observatoire de Nice where I once was a visiting scientist.
		The observatory is situated on the Grande Corniche, overlooking Nice.
		There was another device, made by the observatory for home viewing, displaying the transit.
	www.pzweifel.com /music/nice_trip.html (925 words)

	Comets C/2004 Q2 and C/2004 R2
		To get them, we used the SoTIE telescope in Las Campanas and we are very grateful to the NASA/TIE team (in particular Roger Wilcox for operating the scope while we observe), as well as to Software Bisque, for their support and disposability.
		A nice comet is moving north, promising a nice show in the next weeks, especially during the incoming Christmas Season.
		This object was a nice target to properly get the first light with the new 0.5m-f/3 Campocatino Austral Observatory (CAO) telescope, a fully robotic instrument recently installed in Solor (an oasis south of San Pedro de Atacama, in the well-know chilean desert, not too far from the ESO VLT) and hosted at the SPACE facility.
	www.bellatrixobservatory.org /c2004q2c2004r2.html (962 words)

	Palomar Observatory Public Home Page
		The Palomar Observatory is located in north San Diego County, California.
		The observatory is home to five telescopes that are nightly used for a wide variety of astronomical research programs.
		The research is conducted by Caltech's faculty, post-doctoral fellows and students, and by researchers at Caltech's collaborating institutions.
	www.astro.caltech.edu /palomarpublic/index.html (151 words)

	Nice
		Perhaps the best known landmark of Nice on the French Riviera is the Negresco hotel on the beach front.
		It's possibly interesting for a long weekend but for a holiday on the French Riviera Nice is perhaps better experienced from a distance - perhaps from a wonderful 16th Century villa on the hill:
		On the hill on the right, the small white dot is the Nice Observatory and it's a landmark with which you'll become familiar when driving around the area.
	www.antibes.co.uk /nice (369 words)

	Press Release: Buzzing Like a Beehive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brett Gladman, Observatory of Nice, gladman@obs-nice.fr, 011 33 4 9200 3126, http://www.obs-nice.fr/gladman (English and French versions)
		Jean-Marc Petit, Observatory of Nice, petit@obs-nice.fr, 011 33 4 9200 3126
		Hans Scholl, Observatory of Nice, scholl@obs-nice.fr, 011 33 4 9200 3041
	cfa-www.harvard.edu /cfa/ep/pressrel/uranus92099.html (523 words)

	Tim & Becky's Deep Space Imaging Page
		COAA: This is an observatory based in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.
		Muriwai Beach Observatory is situated 36.50 South 174.26 East 50km west of Auckland.
		Also, they have a nice instructional section with lots of useful information in their "Need Help Choosing or Using a CCD Camera?" section.
	www.cloudnet.com /~dsastro/astroimage1.htm (1939 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		Remember that if you plan your building up front carefully, you can turn a shed into a very nice observatory over time and spread the cost.
		If you are not careful, you can add many thousands to the cost of your observatory and not realize it until the end.
		Four piece fiberglass skirt to make transition between the circular observatory and a flat/sloping roof or building edge.
	www.littlebear-observatory.com /faq.htm (536 words)

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