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3a: Tamm's ObservatoryAt last we are on the top of the hill, this is Kvistaberg's first observatory, often called Tamm's observatory. Here he invited his friends and colleagues from the University. Observatory building:
This is the gem of the observatories at Kvistaberg. Built by Nils Tamm 1919, a few years after he built his big villa. This was his first real observatory. 
They knew how to design beautiful buildings in earlier days, of course, because Nils Tamm was an artist and had money to build what he wanted. His father Per Gustaf Tamm was in the forest industry. 
It has small windows around the building, nothing you find on todays observatories. 
The entrance door with decorations on the entrance door. 
A star, maybe it's our Sun that smiles at us, could it has been designed by Nils Tamm himself ? 
Nils Tamm på Kvistabergs observatoriumCredit: Wikimedia Kvistaberg 1919 Photographer: unknown Nils Tamm at his observatory at Kvistaberg. It's the year 1919 when it just has opened, the refractor must be the famous Carl Zeiss 13 cm. His favorite objects was variable stars and one of his discoveries was IZ Cyg, see link below. 
It has a balcony at the top floor. 
The view from this balcony must be beautiful with a free view all around the surroundings. 
From the beginning it had a Carl Zeiss 13 cm refractor. Nils studied variable stars with this refactor. 
I found in the text about this building that Nils Tamm's ashes is buried into the instrument panel of this observatory. 
All three observatories on line. Nils Tamm died 1957 when he still lived in the villa we saw in the beginning. He has one asteroid named after him, the 7833 Nilstamm asteroid. There are more information on Wikipedia about Kvistaberg's observatory. If you understand Swedish, switch over to it because there are more details in that language:
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