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In december 2002, a french
astrophysicist, François Querci from l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées,
Toulouse, France, has visited Lebanon to convince the concerned people
at the lebanese CNRS about the need to establish a national Observatory
that will be a part of some "network" called the "Network
of Oriental Robotic Telescopes" known as NORT. NORT consists of building
a network of observatories in the arab world and in the north african
countries in a goal to revive science in the region and help its research.
This will maintain a good cooperation between such countries in this field,
and also cooperation with the astronomical societies and agencies around
the world. Lebanon will take part of NORT, and in case of an agreement
about building this observatory in steps, the first one will consist on
finding the best location due to studies on light pollution, atmospheric
interferences and many inconvenients. |
will consist of analyzing
data received from space and also study pollution in the air. Dr. Roger
Hajjar hopes the observatory to be ready in two years in case the project
is accepted in june 2003.
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Site Manager:
Alain Khayat |
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