# Newbrook Observatory

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|location_town           = [Newbrook, Alberta](/source/Newbrook%2C_Alberta) 
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The '''Newbrook Observatory'''  (a designated historic building) was built in [Newbrook, Alberta](/source/Newbrook%2C_Alberta), [Canada](/source/Canada), by  the Stellar Physics Division of the [Dominion Observatory](/source/Dominion_Observatory) and operated as a space observatory from 1952 until 1957.<ref>{{cite web
|url =http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8809&pid=0
|title =NEWBROOK OBSERVATORY
|publisher = Canada's Historic Places - a Federal Provincial and Territorial Collaboration 
|accessdate = 27 June 2012}}</ref>   The observatory was equipped with a Super-Schmidt Meteor Camera, one of only six built by the [Perkin-Elmer Company](/source/PerkinElmer) used to observe meteors.  One of the observatory resident scientists, Art Griffin, was the first in North America to photograph the [Sputnik 1](/source/Sputnik_1) satellite (less than a week after its launch).

In 1970, the government consolidated astronomical research and the observatories at [Meanook](/source/Meanook) (similar nearby facility, c.23 miles NW) and Newbrook was closed.

== See also ==
* [List of astronomical observatories](/source/List_of_astronomical_observatories)

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://globalnews.ca/news/7334868/cold-war-space-camera-newbrook-observatory/ News story about getting the camera back in working order]

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