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LT Po I Pasaulinio karo, lenkų okupuotame Vilniuje vėl atidarius Vilniaus universitetą jame buvo įsteigta Astronomijos katedra. Senosios observatorijos patalpos netiko astronominiams stebėjimams. Todėl 1921m. buvo nuspręsta statyti naują observatoriją. Tam tikslui buvo išskirtas žemės sklypas miesto pakraštyje netoli Vingio parko, dabartinėje M.K.Čiurlionio gatvėje. Per 15 metų buvo pastatyti keli astronominiai bokšteliai teleskopams ir laboratoriju pastatas. AO buvo aprūpinta dviems 15cm Zeiss astrografais ir 48cm reflektoriumi su spektrografu. Pagrindinės moksliniu tyrimu kryptys buvo fotometriniai ir spektroskopiniai kintamųjų žvaigždžių tyrimai bei žvaigždžių statistika.

EN After World War I, In Vilnius, then occupied by Poland, a Department of Astronomy was set up at the reopened Vilnius University.The premises of the old observatory were no longer suitable for astronomical observations. Therefore, in 1921 it was decided to build a new observatory. For that purpose a plot of land was allocated in the outskirts of the city near Vingis park on the present M.K.Ciurlionis street. Over a period of 15 years, several buildings to house the telescopes and a building for the laboratories had been erected. The observatory was equipped with two 15cm Zeiss astrographs and a 48cm reflector with a spectrograph. The research work was mainly concentrated on photometric and spectroscopic investigation of variable stars and on stellar statistics.


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