The Central Bureau was founded by
Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1882 at
Kiel, Germany. During
World War I it was moved to the
Østervold Observatory at
Copenhagen,
Denmark, to be operated there by the
Copenhagen University Observatory. In 1922, the IAU made the Central Bureau its official
Bureau Central des Télégrammes Astronomiques (French for Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams), and it remained in Copenhagen until 1965, when it moved to the
Harvard College Observatory, to be operated there by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on the Harvard University campus. In 2010, the CBAT moved from SAO to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. It has remained in
Cambridge, Massachusetts to this day. The HCO had maintained a western-hemisphere Central Bureau from 1883 until the IAU's CBAT moved there at the end of 1964, so logically the HCO staff took over the IAU's Bureau. == See also ==