[time-nuts] Are minutes more important in astronomy than seconds and hours ?

[Iain Young]

Hi Marcus

On 23/11/19 14:31,You wrote:

> On a related note, some trivia that might be of interest.
> 
> The master pendelum clocks is still in their basement in Observatoire
> Royal de Belgique, I've seen them. They have their dedicated
> heating-system to help control the temperature, ovenizing the whole
> basement building (the clocks are in a separate house within the
> basement room.

Very interesting. I've been looking at their website, and saw mention of
the planetarium,is there anything else there for the public, such as a
visitors centre or is it just the planetarium ?

[From the website, it looks very much like it is still very much an
operational scientific institution, and I wouldn't want to get in the
way of that, but I am in Belgium every year for the Formula One, and
always stop off in Brussels/Leuven and sample the local...hospitality
:)]


Iain