San Fernando Naval Observatory today.
At present, two hundred and fifty years after its foundation in Cadiz, San Fernando
Naval Observatory organizes its duties in four scientific departments. Astronomy
Department main mission is due to astrometry, i.e. to determine positions of celestial
bodies. The observatory has got its own astrometric instrument, a Grubb-Parsons
Meridian Circle. In 1996 it was moved to the University of San Juan (Argentina)
facilities at Estación de Altura Carlos Ulrrico Cesco. Furthermore, the observatory
participates in the observation works made at La Palma Island by using the University
of Copenhaguen Carlsberg Meridian Circle.
(ref: http://cddis.nasa.gov/lw14/docs/papers/sci1p_fgm.pdf)