Digitized collections - OCA - Architectural, instrumental and natural heritage

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1.  Architectural & Instrumental heritage  : Instruments (general) ; Coudé refractor  ;  GI2T ;  Laser ranging station ; Schmidt telescope
2. Natural heritage  ;
3. Preservation and enhancement of Heritage : a. Protection of scientific facilities - b. The history of the Scientific museum project   (The REMUS project ; Charles Garnier Committee (missions and reports) -  The museum project - The feasibility studies - The preliminary exhibitions)
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Annales de l'observatoire de Nice. Vo. 1 [Part 1. Text]  & [Part 2. Atlas]
Joseph Anastase Perrotin   ; Observatoire de Nice  (1899)
Call number :  A002341(A1)  (text) and   A002341(A2) (atlas)
Access condition : free access for all

History of the Nice observatory from its creation until 1911 (buildings, instruments, staff, scientific works).
Contains a detailed description of the main instruments (Grand Equatorial, Equatorial 0m38 opening, Equatorial Coudé...) in its text section and technical drawings in the "Atlas" section.

Les instruments des observatoires français au 19e siècle
Solange Grillot (1986) 
in L'Astronomie, vol. 100, Juin 1986, p.275-289
Call number : W190 / OCA-NI-010680
Access condition : restricted access to OCA

The article takes stock of the main instruments equipping the major French public observatories as well as some private observatories. It includes the Nice Observatory and gives an overview of the names dominating the astronomical instrument industry in the 19th century.

With a view to create a museum on the Nice Mont-Gros site , the authors draw up an inventory and a state of the instrumental heritage.  This work is completed by basic indications for their restorations.

Call number : 002694  (OCA-NI-A002694)  et cote W40  (OCA-NI-006450)
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).  Only the paper version is available for reading on site. 

Study and photographic coverage of old scientific instruments from the Nice observatory with a view to draw up an inventory available online. See at right the result of this work in the database "POP"

See also this external resource  :  
POP : la plateforme ouverte du Patrimoine

this database contains detailed instructions and photos of the instruments and buildings of the Nice Observatory from the DRAC PACA inventory
(free access)

Inventory of the residential buildings and the scientific buildings on the Nice observatory 

Part 1 of the Inventory of the instruments, the entrance buildings and the scientific buildings on the Nice observatory

Part 2 of the Inventory of the instruments on the Nice observatory

Entraînement universel pour télescopes
Olivier Lardière (1995)
Rapport de stage : Mémoire de DEA : Instrumentation et commandes : Caen : 1995 .
Call number W196 (inv. OCA-NI-010822) 
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).
Only the paper version is available for reading on site.

Realization of an universal drive system intended for both the 80 cm telescope of the OHP, and the 3rd ball telescope which will be added to the GI2T, in service since 1984 at the Côte d'Azur Observatory 

Ensemble de désignation et de commande de tir pour station de télémétrie laser : tir en aveugle 
Hatat, Jean-Louis (1974)
Thèse d'Université : Sciences : Univ. Paris VI,  1974
Cote W197 / OCA-NI-010820
Access condition : restricted access to OCA

Synthèse des inventaires réalisés sur le site du Mont Gros (au cours du 2ème trimestre 2000 et de l'été 2001)
Conservatoire-Etudes des Ecosystèmes de Provence - Alpes du sud (CEEP) ; Muriel Brès (Nov. 2001)
Call number : W71 (OCA-NI-006792)
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).
Only the paper version is available for reading on site.

Updated inventories of fauna and flora on the Nice Mont-Gros site and management proposal.

Agenda ... [1968-2001]
Paul Marro (1968-2001)
Call number : W59 (A à AH) (OCA-NI-010887 à OCA-NI-010918)
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).
Only the paper version is available for reading on site.

Rapport du groupe de travail sur la protection des observatoires astronomiques et géophysiques : Grasse, 18 nov. 1984  
Comité des Etudes et Rapports (CODER) ; Jean Kovalevsky  ; François Barlier  (1984)
Call number : W187  (OCA-NI-010665)
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).
Only the paper version is available for reading on site.

Nuisances against observation conditions in observatories are intensifying. The purpose of this study is to analyze these nuisances, to give the maximum admissible values and to lay the scientific foundations for legislation. CERGA and the Nice Observatory are notably cited.

Programme d'aide à la recherche en muséologie scientifique et technique [REMUS]
Françoise Le Guet Tully (1990)
Call number : W4 / OCA-NI-004994
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).
Only the paper version is available for reading on site.

Description and funding request for the “Discover the universe of astronomers” project under the responsibility of Françoise Le Guet Tully.

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Pôle de diffusion de culture scientifique
[Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur]  (2002)
Call number : W86 / OCA-NI-007546
Access condition : digitized document for preservation purposes only (online access limited to the library service).
Only the paper version is available for reading on site.

Summary file including previous studies, an action program in 4 phases with a summary table and an operating diagram in the appendix.