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The Hipparcos astrometric space mission is born at Strasbourg Observatory through the thoughts of its Director, Pierre Lacroute. This chapter describes the project prehistory and subsequent evolution, as well as the key rôle played by Lacroute.

In September 1881 and a century later, in February 1982, the met at Strasbourg Observatory. The 1881 meeting, the 9 AG General Assembly, focussed essentially on the international while the 1982 Spring Meeting gathered together astronomers from Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland around discussions on the Milky Way structure and kinematics.

This chapter illustrates rare appearances in the regional press of Strasbourg Observatory around the beginning of the 20 century. The particular cases discussed are the Observatory inauguration in 1881, a fireball triggering some 150 letters addressed to the Observatory in 1904, and bright comets around 1910.

Strasbourg Observatory is hosting a damaged Coronelli 1693 celestial globe appearing in the 1920s for the first time in Observatory documents. This chapter reviews Coronelli’s activities and elaborates on the history and possible trajectory of that globe.

The literature dealing with the Cathedral of Strasbourg has known a recent boom thanks to a green-beam phenomenology taking place around the equinoxes within the building itself. After discussing this now fashionable popular attraction (without real significance), we detail Danjon & Rougier’s first spectrographic observations of the solar green-ray phenomenon carried out in 1920 on the platform of the Cathedral. They confirmed the rôle of selective atmospheric absorption and explained the sometimes abnormal duration of the “flashes” as resulting from a combination between dispersion, turbulence and terrain irregularities at the horizon.

The following note details, for the period 1969–2000, the elected members of the successive councils for Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory.

This chapter details, for the period 1972–2000, the membership of the scientific councils for the , later called , installed at Strasbourg Observatory.

This chapter is providing an alphabetical list of Strasbourg scientific personnel from foundation up to Year 2000.

This chapter details the publications produced by Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory as an institution, during both German and French times, up to about Year 2000.