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proposed changes to the society and in 1936 offered to move the headquarters to Athens but the members declined the offer. The
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housed with a 2.5 m diameter dome, a 160 mm equatorial dioptric telescope with all its accessories, housed in a 4.5 m diameter dome. The
Astronomical Society bought the land and house from Ioannis Kogevina to build the second dome in 1933. The facility was also equipped with a meteorological
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On 4 December 1926 Félix introduced the idea of a Greek
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and dated 12 September 1956, attached to it is a series of diagrams of the lunar formations with the marking that they were made mainly in Corfu. He resumed his scientific activity and spent the last years of his life in a deserted villa in the Paris suburb of Aulney-sous-Bois. Later in life he
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Because of the declaration of war, Félix enlisted as a volunteer in the French army, and after the invasion of France, he followed the French army to Africa. He survived the war. His complete map of the Moon was published in 1955. In the library of the observatory of
Toulouse, there is a
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and served France during World War I. He continued his studies in Paris and traveled to Greece in 1923. He spent a large portion of his life in Greece. He erected the Corfu
Observatory in 1924 and was the observatory's first director. In 1926, he began building a map of the moon based on
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and also assisted Félix and other extraordinary astronomers in their journey to further understand the universe. Regrettably, it was bombed in the early 1940s and rendered useless. The remaining remnants were removed in April 1989. Afterward, a group of historians began to build historical
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taking with him critical astronomical instruments which almost led to the dissolution of the observatory. Félix returned with the equipment and continued his partnership with the observatory. Around the same period, Félix became the head of the
Toulouse Meteorological Service at the
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Theodoros Pangalos. The rules of the Astronomical Society of Greece (AETE) were voted in the hall of the 2nd Gymnasium by a 5-member temporary committee. On April 10, the first Board of Directors was unanimously elected, while the Director of the Athens Observatory,
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Félix was born in Ariana (Tunis) and traveled to Greece in the 1920s where he built the Corfu Observatory to study the Moon, Saturn, and other astronomical phenomena. His first publication was about Saturn in 1926 in collaboration with Greek polymath
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While he was in France he completed a new map of the Moon with a 135-millimeter telescope. The map was published in France on 31 July 1934. Félix named five lunar craters after notable people he knew from Corfu: Kefallinos 4119, Moumouris 896,
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was printed primarily in (Greek, French) but sometimes there were articles in English and German. Félix resigned from the board of directors on 25 March 1929. The same year the society added an astronomical school in Corfu. The next year
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at the summer theater called Phoenix. The theme dealt with the origin of the universe. By September 1927, Félix was criticized by the engineer and theologian P. Kokkolis in the newspaper
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a journal associated with the astronomical society. In July 1928, the local ecclesiastical community attacked Félix once again in the publication
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regarding the origin of the universe. He accused Félix of calling
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