Cagliari Observatory

Cagliari Observatory
Organization INAF
Location Province of Cagliari, Italy
Coordinates 39°08′12″N 8°58′22″E / 39.13653°N 8.97278°E / 39.13653; 8.97278Coordinates: 39°08′12″N 8°58′22″E / 39.13653°N 8.97278°E / 39.13653; 8.97278
Website www.ca.astro.it

The Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Cagliari Observatory, OAC) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics, INAF). It is located 20 km away from Cagliari in Sardinia. It was founded in 1899 to study the Earth's rotation.

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