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 | | Determined to make his mark as an independent astronomer, he purchased a small astronomical telescope and in 1864 installed this in what was to be the first of four different Windsor Observatory buildings. |
 | | Transit telescopes and two larger refractors (of 11.4cm and 20.3cm aperture) followed, and a truly staggering succession of scientific observations (mainly of comets, transits of Mercury and Venus, minor planets, Jovian satellite phenomena, lunar occultations, solar and lunar eclipses, variable stars and double stars) and associated publications (e.g. |
 | | He was the founding President of the New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association (Orchiston 1988a), and was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal and Gift by the Royal Astronomical Society in 1905 for his long and valuable service to astronomy. |
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