Hand book of the Lick Observatory of the University of California
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Little work is now done. Two quarto volumes of observations have been printed. AFRICA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, ETC. Royal Observatory, Cape oj Good Hope : Founded in 1820. The successive Astronomers, FALLOWS (1829-1831), T. HENDERSON (1832- 1833), T. MACLEAR (1833-1870), E. J. STONE (1870-1879) and DAVID GILL (1879-date) have done work of the first importance in exact astronomy and geodesy, in photography, etc. , etc. Very exact determinations of stellar parallax have been made here by HENDERSON and ...latterly by GILL and ELK. IN. A photographic map of the whole southern sky is now being made at the Cape of Good Hope; other extensive operations are in hand. It was near this ob- servatory that Sir JOHN HERSCHEL established his observatory in the years 1834-38. Its principal instruments are a meridian circle of 8 -inches aperture, like that at Greenwich, and several small refractors of 7 -inches of aperture and less. Its observations are regularly printed in octavo. Observatory of Madras : This observatory was founded in 1831.
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