Skinakas Observatory
On the eponymous peak of Psiloritis, Skinakas Observatory—Αστεροσκοπείο Σκίνακα—turns a mountain road into a research instrument. The project began with an idea formed in the summer of 1984, and soon after, construction started on the access road to the summit. That road is the highest paved in Crete, reaching 1,750 meters. The observatory was built for more than teaching: the University of Crete, FORTH (the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas), and Germany’s Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik agreed to operate telescopes that could support modern astronomy and focus on extended objects such as comets and gaseous nebulae. …
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