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The Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics, abbreviated as CRAAG, is an astronomical observatory, known at the time of its creation as the Observatory of Algiers. It is a public scientific and technological institution (EPST) governed by Decree No. 20-06 of February 2006.
It was created on November 26, 1858, inheriting the astronomical observatory of Bouzareah, built in 1885, and the Institute of Physics of the Globe of Algiers dating from 1931, to change its status in 1985, then to take the current status .


In 1931, he became the Institute of Meteorology and Physics of the Globe in Algiers (IMPGA) 1, whose astronomer Joanny-Philippe Lagrula directs. Paul Queney works there as an adjunct meteorologist. In 1937, the geophysicist, Jean Coulomb is the director. Then, in 1945, the ethno-meteorologist Jean Dubief was appointed to the headquarters of the Institute. From 1951 to 1953, then 1955 to 1957 and 1961 to 1968, the astronomer, Jean-Louis Lagrula succeeded his father and took the direction of the Institute.
In 1980, the Institute was replaced by the National Center for Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics (CNAAG), it was created and directed by Professor Hadj Benhallou until 1988. The new missions of the center direct him to the sciences of the earth and make him abandon his primary mission of research in meteorology.
In 1985, the Center for Research in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics (CRAAG) was created pursuant to Decree No. 83-521 of 10 September 1983, following the establishment of the statutes of research centers.
It is part of the UNHCR in 1990 and placed under the aegis of the authority of the Ministry of the Interior in 1991.
discoveries
It is to the observatory of Algiers that several asteroids of the main belt were discovered and named in connection with the place:
(858) El Djezair discovered on May 26, 1916 by Frederick Sy11;

(1213) Algeria discovered December 5, 1931 by Guy Reiss13.
Personalities related to the observatory

Jules Voinot (architect);

Odette Bancilhon;
Alfred Schmitt;

Benjamin Jekhowsky;
Guy Reiss.
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