OAN

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OAN is the commonly used abbreviation for Spain’s Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, the country’s principal national astronomical observatory.

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instanceOf astronomical observatory
national observatory
abbreviationOf Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
city Madrid
collaboratesWith European Southern Observatory
European Space Agency
International Astronomical Union
contributesTo Coordinated Universal Time
International Atomic Time
country Kingdom of Spain
Spain
fieldOfWork astronomy
astrophysics
geodesy
radio astronomy
space geodesy
timekeeping
fullName Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
hasCoordinateSystemRole geodetic reference frames for Spain
hasMission astronomical observation
public outreach in astronomy
scientific research in astronomy
support for space missions
time and frequency standards
hasSite Centro Astronómico de Yebes
Observatorio de Calar Alto
Observatorio de Madrid
Observatorio de Yebes
headquartersLocation Madrid
languageOfName Spanish
locatedIn Community of Madrid
Iberian Peninsula
Madrid
Spain
mainRadioAstronomySite Yebes Observatory
maintains atomic clocks
official time scale of Spain
operatedBy Instituto Geográfico Nacional
operates Yebes 40 m radio telescope
optical telescopes
ownedBy Government of Spain
linked to: Spanish government
parentOrganization Instituto Geográfico Nacional
participatesIn European VLBI Network
International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
partOf Spanish national research infrastructure in astronomy

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