Great white Spot on Saturn and Will Hay
Will Hay the celebrated British star of comedy films
portraying characters such as school masters and station masters was also a
very good astronomer.
On August 3rd 1933 using a 6 inch Cooke refractor
he discovered a white spot on Saturn. The spot was confirmed by astronomers at
the US Naval Observatory in Washington using the 26 inch refractor.
The most
recent white spot on Saturn was seen in 2010.
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