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Barnard Observatory was a U.S. astrophysical observatory owned and operated by University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Completed in 1859, the building was part of the astronomy focus  that Chancellor Frederick A.P. Barnard had for the school. As a result of the outbreak of the Civil War, though, the purchase of the observatory’s telescopes was [...]

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  Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was the University of Mississippi’s first Chancellor. In 1856, Barnard, the former Chair of Physics and Astronomy, convinced the legislature to appropriate funds to order the largest telescope in the world for the University and to construct an observatory for it on campus. The Department of Physics and Astronomy occupied [...]

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