Royal Observatory of Belgium
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The Royal Observatory of Belgium, officially known in French as the Observatoire Royal de Belgique, and in Dutch as the Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, is situated at Uccle.
The main activities are :
- Reference Systems and Geodynamics
- Astrometry and Dynamics of Celestial Bodies
- Astrophysics
- Solar Physics.
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The Royal Observatory was founded by Adolphe Quetelet in 1828. Since 1981, the Sunspot Index Data center, the World data center for the Sunspot Index is harbored at the observatory[1]
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