# Wise Observatory

*Observatory*

Wise Observatory, Mitzpe Ramon

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| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 30.6000° N, 34.7600° E |
| State | IL |
| What is done there | optical observatory |
| Main mirror | 1 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

The Florence and George Wise Observatory (IAU code 097) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel Aviv University. It is located 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) west of the town of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert near the edge of the Ramon Crater, and it is the only professional astronomical observatory in Israel.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=30.60,34.76
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_Observatory
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.