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The Calamity of the Great Melbourne Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

W. Lewis Hyde
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Extract

Sir William Herschel and his sister, Caroline, had swept the skies over England as members of the court of George III. They had made amazing discoveries: a new planet in our solar system, the movement of the solar system with respect to the fixed stars, and hundreds of new nebulae and star clusters.

Then Sir William’s son John swept the southern skies from Cape Town, South Africa (1834 to 1838), mapping and sketching many more stars and nebulae.

Type
History of Australian Astronomy
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , 1987 , pp. 227 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1987

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