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Observatoire de Lyon

Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The Lyon Observatory is a professional astronomical observatory at Saint-Genis-Laval, near Lyon, in the Rhône. Founded in 1878, it is now part of the Lyon Centre for Astrophysics Research (CRAL); its IAU code is 513.

The façades and roofs of the observatory buildings, the astronomical sighting marks, the instrument piers, the Eichens and Brunner equatorial mounts, the water tower with its gas engine and pump, the siderostat and its fixed telescope, the whole Lagrange pavilion, the park and its boundary wall, and the underground gallery have been registered as historic monuments since 9 May 2007. The bent equatorial telescope and its building have been listed since 21 April 2008.

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