The Royal Observatory Edinburgh Trust

About

Ultimately the purpose of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh Trust is to advance education, science and scholarship. The principal means by which it seeks to achieve these ends are (i) to inspire and inform the public through stimulating an interest in astronomy and related sciences and (ii) more specifically to promote the public understanding of the work carried out by the institutions occupying the Royal Observatory Edinburgh site and the history and heritage of these institutions. In particular it seeks to preserve and encourage both public and scholarly interest in the heritage of the Observatory site. It also encourages more general public interest in, and understanding of, astronomy and related sciences. It furthers these aims by, inter alia, runing projects aimed at, or providing equipment for use by, the public, and by organising both public lectures and more specialist meetings for scholars.

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