The Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is a former scientific institution in South Africa. Founded by the British Board of Longitude in 1820, its main...
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remotely by a time signal from the Observatory. The history of the SAAO began when the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope was founded in 1820, the first...
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name is derived from the location and construction of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope in the area at 33°56′7.13″S 18°28′38.47″E / 33.9353139°S...
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Kong Observatory, (formerly the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong until 1997) Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope in South Africa This disambiguation page...
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Manuel John Johnson (category Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society)
the high proper motion of Alpha Centauri and communicated these to Thomas Henderson at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. This led to the first...
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David Gill (astronomer) (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. 1913. Heliometer observations for determination of stellar parallax made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of...
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along the edge of the mare. It is named after Sir Thomas Maclear, Her Majesty's astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town, South...
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William Henry Finlay (category Cape Colony people)
strength of his mathematical ability he was appointed first assistant at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope in April 1873, under the direction of Edward...
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is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small Solar...
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below. March 10 – Astronomical Society of London is founded. October 20 – Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, is founded. Christian Friedrich Nasse...
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magnitude) of over 100 bright southern hemisphere stars in 1943, that he had observed at the Durban observatory. R. H. Stoy of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good...
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periodic comet with an orbital period of 6 years discovered by William Henry Finlay (Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) on September 26, 1886...
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William Mann (astronomer) (category Cape Colony scientists)
William Mann (1817–1873) was an English astronomer active at Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, where he erected a new transit-circle in 1855 and made valuable...
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Alpha Centauri (redirect from Exploration of Alpha Centauri)
(1851). "Determination of the Parallax of α 1 and α2 Centauri, from Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, in the Years 1842-3-4...
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Gill (1901). "The Great comet of 1901, as observed at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. LXI (8):...
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regarding the distance of alpha Centauri based on observations he had made 1832/33 at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. In 1846 Charles Piazzi...
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Comet Donati (redirect from Great Comet of 1858)
observation was by William Mann, chief assistant at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, who detected it as a faint nebulosity on March 4, 1859....
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Brian Warner (astronomer) (category Academic staff of the University of Cape Town)
(2009) Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2009) Warner, Brian (1979). Astronomers at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema...
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Yapp telescope (category Royal Observatory, Greenwich)
was taken down and sent to the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope to house the planned Elizabeth telescope. An example of astronomical studies done with...
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Thomas Maclear (category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society)
grounds of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Knighted in 1860 for his achievements as an astronomer. Lalande Prize (1866) Royal Medal of the Royal Society...
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Tim Hawarden (category University of Cape Town alumni)
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and then from 1972 as the Deputy Head of the Photometry Department at the South African Astronomical Observatory...
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This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....
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Robert T. A. Innes (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
invited to the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope by the HM Astronomer Sir David Gill in 1894 and appointed in 1896. While at the Cape, he discovered...
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Patrick H. Scully (category Cape Colony people)
Archdiocese of Cape Town. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2024. Warner, Brian (1995). "Cape Residence". Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope 1820–1831:...
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Sydney Samuel Hough (category Fellows of the Royal Society of South Africa)
College in 1894. At South Africa's Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, he was from 1898 to 1907 the chief assistant of David Gill and, upon Gill's retirement...
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longest-lived formations of the Royal Navy. It was also often known as the Cape of Good Hope Station. From 1750 to 1779 the Cape of Good Hope became strategically...
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Owl House and Camel Yard Rahima Moosa Grave Robben Island Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope Sarah Baartman Site São José Game Pass Shelter, Kamberg Nature...
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John Rennie the Elder (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
by his son (1824–31) moved to Lake Havasu City in the USA Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope Main Building, completed posthumously in 1828 Blackwall Dock...
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Patrick Wayman (category Directors of Dunsink Observatory)
the Cape Observatory and the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria. In 1960, he returned to the RGO to the meridian department going on to become head of that...
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Teach Yourself (category Publishing companies of the United Kingdom)
Evans in 1957. At the time he was Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope. Teach Yourself Biology was written in 1940 by the pioneering...
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