The Algiers Observatory was built in the late nineteenth century in the Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

 suburb of Bouzaréah‎. It participated in the Astrographic Catalogue project, taking the zone between -2 and +4 degrees to expose 1,260 plates between the years 1891 and 1911. At the tail end of that time, the director of the installation was François Gonnessiat

François Gonnessiat

François Gonnessiat was a French astronomer.He worked at the Observatory of Lyon. In 1889 he won the Lalande Prize for astronomy from the French Academy of Sciences; 1901 became director of the Quito Observatory for the purpose of making geodetic measurements...

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Astronomers

Astronomers who worked at the observatory include:

• Alfred Schmitt
  Alfred Schmitt
  Alfred Schmitt was a French astronomer.Schmitt worked at Algiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium in the 1950s.He is credited with having discovered a number of asteroids.-Publications:...
  
  
• Louis Boyer
  Louis Boyer (astronomer)
  Louis Boyer was a French astronomer.He worked at the Algiers Observatory and discovered a number of asteroids.The asteroid 1215 Boyer was named after him by his colleague in Algiers, Alfred Schmitt...
  
  
• Odette Bancilhon
  Odette Bancilhon
  Odette Bancilhon was a French astronomer. She is known for her work during the 1930s and 1940s at the Algiers Observatory, where she discovered the asteroid 1333 Cevenola. All of her publications are signed O. Bancilhon, a practice of her profession at that time.She later married her colleague...
  
  
• Benjamin Jekhowsky
  Benjamin Jekhowsky
  Benjamin Jekhowsky , died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes ) was a Russian-French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official. After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912...
  
  
• Frédéric Sy
  Frédéric Sy
  Frédéric Sy was a French astronomer.He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory from 1887 to 1918...
  
  
• Joanny-Philippe Lagrula
  Joanny-Philippe Lagrula
  Joanny-Philippe Lagrula was a French astronomer. He was sometimes referred to as "Philippe Lagrula".In 1901, he wrote his thesis at the University of Lyon. At the time, occultations of the Pleiades by the Moon were important for measuring the correspondence of the Moon's actual position with...
  
  

External links

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