France, Alpes-Maritimes, Nice, Mont Gros, the observatory designed by the architect Charles Garnier, the Bischoffsheim dome was made by the engineer Gustave Eiffel, the astronomical telescope fitted to the Grand Equatorial, 18 meters long, with a lens 76 cm in diameter

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