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Sydney Observatory 1858-1983

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Harley Wood
Harley Wood*
Affiliation:
Kenthurst, NSW
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Extract

Astonomy in Sydney predates Sydney Observatory by some 70 years. Lt William Dawes arrived with the First Fleet and set up an observatory at a place now called Dawes Point at the foot of the present Observatory Hill. His instructions were to observe a comet predicted by the famous astronomer, Edmund Halley, to return about 1790.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 1983 , pp. 273 - 281
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1983

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