7 inch Transit Circle

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)