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Recordist's notes
The Toulouse Observatory (French: Observatoire de Toulouse) is located in Toulouse, France and was established in 1733. It was founded by l'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse ("Academy of Science, Inscriptions and the Humanities of Toulouse"). It was moved 1841 and again in 1981 In 1987, Genevieve Soucail of the Toulouse Observatory and her collaborators presented data of a blue ring-like structure in Abell 370 and proposed a gravitational lensing interpretation[2] In the 1990s the observatory worked on MEGACAM with several other institutions. Captation : ZOOM H6
About the place
Toulouse is a city of about 511,684 people in Occitanie, France. OttoAnna lists 251 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H6. A six-track recorder with interchangeable capsules and four XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “Observatoire de Toulouse, 1 Av. Camille Flammarion, 31500 Toulouse, France - The Toulouse Observatory” by kaoss012 – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0