If anyone has watched the Boleyns on BBC 2 they would have seen during episode 1 Thomas Boleyn the father of Anne Bolyen using a telescope to watch a hawk, OK except that this was in the 1490s over 100 years before the invention of the telescope.!!!!!!
I am not sure what references the researchers used.
Mr H. Ormesher of Manchester witnessed the partial transit of the 3rd satellite on the night of August 14th 1869. The satellite was visible as a bright spot 15 minutes after first contact.
On the night of the 24th August 1869 the 2nd satellite was observed during its ingress.
Mr Ormesher says “After first contact the satellite appeared to linger for some time” A somewhat analogous phenomenon is noticed on page 141 of Webb’s Celestial Objects,
I managed to observe from midnight until 01.30 on the morning of August 13th (BST) until cloud cover prevented further observations and saw very few meteors, only 7 Perseids, 1 iota Aquarid and 1 sporadic, I was surprised in the very low number of meteors seen.
It will be interesting to find out what other observers saw and also to find out what the radio astronomers detected last night with the Perseids.
A . M. Newbegin, Sutton, Surrey. 6-inch Cooke photo-visual equatorial refractor, Evershed prism spectroscope.—Work on the height and position of the solar prominence s has been continued on the same lines as in former years. The results for 1923 indicate that the solar minimum is past, and the activity is now on the upgrade. There is still no great activity in the prominence as a whole, but at intervals metallic outbursts of some strength have been observed. A detailed account of the observation s for the year is being prepared for publication. The new high-power spectroscope is nearly ready for final adjustment.
Mr. A. M. Newbegin, observing at Sutton, Surrey, with a Cooke photo-visual equatorial refractor and modified Evershed spectroscope, has continued his regular programme as in former years, recording the position-angles and heights of solar prominences. The results for 1922 were published in the B.A.A. Journal, Vol. 33, No. 6.
The Scotsman Saturday 12th April 1924
Costly astronomical telescope with 5.5 inch aperture with equatorial mounting and case as new by T. Cooke and Sons York and London, with camera, microscope and special eye pieces which belonged to the late G J G Todd, Gowan Lean, Newhaven Road.
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