[1][2] Bordeaux Observatory is home to a large collection of instruments and archives from well over a century of astronomical activities.

[6] The Government was trying to execute on a national agenda of increased education, and this nexused with city's desire for an Observatory; Bordeaux would contribute 100,000 francs for its founding.

[9] On founding, the observatory had the following areas of study:[6] Early work with the Meridian included updates to the Argelander-Öltzen star catalog.

[11] The success of that space mission was on factor leading to demise of the utility of automatic meridian circles, because of the extreme accuracy achieved by Hipparcos for that time period.

[14] In a simulation of solar system formation, they suggested that it could be leftover building block of an earlier time.

[14] As an institution the Bordeaux Observatory became the Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l’Univers (OASU).