St Andrews University Observatory

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St Andrews University Observatory

Image: © James Allan Taken: 23 Mar 2011

The Scott Lang building is the most prominent building seen here. It houses a research group from the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the dome houses a 50-cm telescope plus spectrograph and CCD detector.

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Image Location

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Latitude
56.336348
Longitude
-2.82002