in the state of Ceará, Brazil, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Fortaleza. The facility is owned by the National Institute for Space Research
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) was the United States nationalobservatory for ground-based nighttime ultraviolet-optical-infrared (OUVIR)
– 21 June 1908) was a Belgian-Brazilian astronomer and geodesist. He was Director of the BrazilianNationalObservatory from 1881 to 1908, led the commission