Editing Leiden Observatory (section)

===1974- Present===
The astronomy department moved to the science campus north-west of the city centre in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|last1=van Gent|first1=Robert|title=Historical Telescopes in the Netherlands|url=http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/telescope/telescopenl.htm#Leiden|access-date=10 June 2014}}</ref> Although professional astronomical observations are no longer carried out from Leiden itself, the department still calls itself Leiden Observatory. In much of astronomy, the data came from elsewhere and could be analyzed and studied on the campus; for example in modern times the instruments may even be located in space, with data transmitted back to Earth and then studied on a computer display. (An example of this was the [[Astronomical Netherlands Satellite]], launched in 1974.)

The archive of the Leiden Observatory is available at [[Leiden University Library]] and digitally accessible through Digital Collections<ref>[https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/leidenobservatorypapers ‘’Leiden Observatory Papers’’], in Digital Collections ([[Leiden University Library]])</ref>