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

[Jean-Louis Rault]

Hi Iain

There are different institutions on the observatory site in Uccle near 
Brussels (the planetarium is somewhere else) See 
https://www.astro.oma.be/en/.

I have regularly some meetings with peoples of the Belgium Institute for 
Space Aeronomy there, so i'm going to ask them if there is something to 
visit for the public on this Uccle site. I'll keep you informed.

Jean-Louis


Le 23/11/2019 à 18:21, Iain Young a écrit :
> 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
>
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