Astronomical Observatories, Planetariums, And Telescopes

Great Britain
United Kingdom from A to Z
October 13, 2011
The stamp for the letter J festures Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. The steerable dish radio telescope, with a diameter of 76.2 m, was completed in 1957.

Portugal
Astronomy
April 23, 2002
The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon Polytechnic School was founded in 1875 and is the only remaining 19th-century educational observatory in Portugal. The stamp shows the observatory and its refracting telescope.

Poland
Space Exploration
June 20, 1973
Set of two, one stamp depicts OAO-3 (Copernicus), an Orbiting Astronomical Observatory launched in August 1972.

Sultan Maverannahr, grandson of Tamerlane, Ulugbek was an astronomer. The underground part of the main quadrant of the Ulugbek Observatory has been preserved.

Germany
ALMA Observatory
December 18, 2018
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is an array of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic radiation at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. ALMA began scientific observations in 2011 and has been fully operational since March 2013.

URSS

1985

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BTA-6 Large Telescope is a 6-metre (20 ft) aperture optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory located in the Zelenchuksky District on the north side of the Caucasus Mountains in southern Russia. For a variety of reasons, BTA-6 has never been able to operate near its theoretical limits. Early problems with poorly fabricated mirror glass were addressed in 1978, improving but not eliminating the most serious issue

Ascension

1986

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island and is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. In ocasion of the return of Halley Comet, in 1986, was issued a set of 4 stamps celebrating this ephemerid. This stamp depicts a newtonian telescope, developed by sir Isaac Newton.

Estonia
Struve Geodetic Arc
May 6, 2011
Set of two, one stamp depicts Tartu Observatory, the largest astronomical observatory in Estonia. It was established in 1810 and is equipped with three main telescopes.

Venezuela
Centenary of Cagigal Observatory
October 5, 1988
The Astronomical and Meteorological Observatory of Caracas was created in 1888. It later changed to Cagigal Observatory in honor of the astronomer and mathematician Colonel Juan Manuel Cagigal (1803-1856). One stamp in the set depicts Boulton cupola and night sky over the observatory.

New Zealand
Southern Lights
February 8, 2007
Set of six, one stamp shows Mt John observatory.

Great Britain

1984

100 years of the Greenwich Meridian

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The set remember the 100 years of the oficialization of the Greenwich Meridian. . The 28p stamp shows an aerial view of the Real Observatory and the 31p shows the Airy's Transit Telescope. The position of the meridian was stablished by sir George Biddell Airy, in 1851.

Argentina
Centenary of La Plata
November 20, 1982
A block of six stamps, one depicts La Plata Astronomical Observatory as a part of the master plan for the city.

Republic of Korea
Astronomy
September 13, 1995
The stamp depicts Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, which was established in 1996. It houses an 1.8-meter reflecting telescope.

Vatican
Centenary of the Vatican Observatory
October 1, 1991
Set of three, the 3000L stamp depicts the optical-infrared telescope at Mount Graham International Observatory in southeast Arizona, USA.

Slovakia
150th Anniversary of the Observatory in Hurbanovo
May 21, 2021
The design shows an elevation of the observatory with its two telescopes.