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59 relations: Agnes Giberne, Agnes Mary Clerke, Alan Hunter (astronomer), Amateur astronomy, American Association of Variable Star Observers, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Astronomical Society of Glasgow, Bertrand Meigh Peek, Birmingham Natural History Society, Burlington House, Colin Ronan, Commission for Dark Skies, Edward Knobel, Edward Pigot, Edward Walter Maunder, Elizabeth Brown (astronomer), Frank Watson Dyson, Frederick James Hargreaves, George Alcock, George Handley Knibbs, George Mitchell Seabroke, Harold Spencer Jones, Heather Couper, John Tebbutt, Light pollution, List of astronomical societies, Lucky imaging, Manchester Astronomical Society, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Martin Mobberley, Maunder Minimum, Nathaniel Everett Green, Nonprofit organization, Oliver Lodge, Patrick Moore, Philibert Jacques Melotte, Philip Crosbie Morrison, Piccadilly, Reginald Lawson Waterfield, Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, Robert L. J. Ellery, Royal Astronomical Society, Samuel Arthur Saunder, Sunspot, T. E. R. Phillips, The Daily Telegraph, The English Mechanic and World of Science, Thomas Logie MacDonald, Tom Boles, ..., Variable star, Walter Frederick Gale, Walter Goodacre, William Charles Kernot, William Henry Stanley Monck, William Herbert Steavenson, William Maw, William Michael Herbert Greaves, William Peck (astronomer). Expand index (9 more) »
Agnes Giberne
Agnes Giberne (19 November 1845 in Belgaum, India – 20 August 1939 in Eastbourne, England) was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people.
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Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy.
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Alan Hunter (astronomer)
Alan Hunter CBE (9 September 1912 East Ham, London – 11 December 1995) was an English astronomer who spent his career at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, serving as Director between 1973 and 1975.
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Amateur astronomy
Amateur astronomy is a hobby whose participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.
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American Association of Variable Star Observers
Since its founding in 1911, the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) has coordinated, collected, evaluated, analyzed, published, and archived variable star observations made largely by amateur astronomers and makes the records available to professional astronomers, researchers, and educators.
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Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (6 February 1865 – 20 September 1939) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland.
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Arthur Matthew Weld Downing
Arthur Matthew Weld Downing FRAS (13 April 1850 – 8 December 1917) was an Irish mathematician and astronomer.
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Astronomical Society of Glasgow
The Astronomical Society of Glasgow (ASG) was founded in 1954 in Glasgow, Scotland, by amateur astronomers and is dedicated to promoting an interest in Astronomy.
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Bertrand Meigh Peek
Bertrand Meigh Peek M.A. FRAS (1891 – 1965) was a British astronomer.
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Birmingham Natural History Society
Birmingham Natural History Society is a learned society for the study of the natural history of Birmingham, England, and in the surrounding midlands region, and beyond.
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Burlington House
Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in Mayfair, London.
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Colin Ronan
Colin A. Ronan FRAS (London, 4 June 1920 – 1 June 1995) was a British author and specialist in the history and philosophy of science.
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Commission for Dark Skies
The Commission for Dark Skies (CfDS) (formerly the Campaign for Dark Skies; the name was changed on March 29, 2015) is the United Kingdom's largest anti-light-pollution campaign group forming part of the international dark-sky movement.
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Edward Knobel
Edward Ball Knobel (21 October 1841 – 25 July 1930) was an English businessman and amateur astronomer.
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Edward Pigot
Edward Francis Pigot (18 September 1858 – 22 May 1929) was an Irish-born Australian Jesuit priest, seismologist and astronomer.
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Edward Walter Maunder
(Edward) Walter Maunder (12 April 1851 – 21 March 1928) was a British astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum.
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Elizabeth Brown (astronomer)
Elizabeth Brown (6 August 1830 – 5 March 1899) was a British astronomer who specialized in solar observation, especially sunspots and solar eclipses.
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Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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Frederick James Hargreaves
Frederick James Hargreaves (10 February 1891 – 4 September 1970) was a British astronomer and optician.
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George Alcock
George Eric Deacon Alcock, MBE (28 August 1912 Peterborough, Northamptonshire– 15 December 2000) was an English astronomer.
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George Handley Knibbs
Sir George Handley "The Knibb" Knibbs CMG (13 June 1858 – 30 March 1929)Bambrick, S. ''.
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George Mitchell Seabroke
George Mitchell Seabroke FRAS (1 April 1848 – 1 April 1918) was an English astronomer.
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Harold Spencer Jones
Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS (29 March 1890 Kensington, London – 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer.
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Heather Couper
Prof Heather Anita Couper, CBE, BSc, DSc (Hon), DLitt (Hon), FInstP, CPhys, FRAS (born 2 June 1949), is a British astronomer and science populariser, and was president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986.
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John Tebbutt
John Tebbutt (25 May 1834 – 29 November 1916) was an Australian astronomer, famous for discovering the "Great Comet of 1861".
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Light pollution
Light pollution, also known as photopollution, is the presence of anthropogenic light in the night environment.
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List of astronomical societies
A list of notable groups devoted to promoting astronomy research and education.
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Lucky imaging
Lucky imaging (also called lucky exposures) is one form of speckle imaging used for astronomical photography.
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Manchester Astronomical Society
The Manchester Astronomical Society is an organisation that promotes amateur and popular astronomy in North West England.
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Margaret Lindsay Huggins
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins (14 August 1848 in Dublin – 24 March 1915 in London), born Margaret Lindsay Murray, was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer.
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Martin Mobberley
Martin P. Mobberley (born 1958) is a British amateur astronomer, author, and former electronics engineer.
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Maunder Minimum
The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum", is the name used for the period around 1645 to 1715 during which sunspots became exceedingly rare, as was then noted by solar observers.
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Nathaniel Everett Green
Nathaniel Everett Green FRAS (21 August 1823 – 10 November 1899) was an English painter, art teacher and astronomer.
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Nonprofit organization
A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.
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Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio.
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Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
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Philibert Jacques Melotte
Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium.
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Philip Crosbie Morrison
Philip Crosbie Morrison (19 December 1900 – 1 March 1958), generally known as "Crosbie Morrison", was an Australian naturalist, educator, journalist, broadcaster and conservationist.
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Piccadilly
Piccadilly is a road in the City of Westminster, London to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east.
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Reginald Lawson Waterfield
Reginald Lawson Waterfield (12 April 1900 – 10 June 1986 in Woolston) was a British hematologist known for his work in amateur astronomy.
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Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born 11 April 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died 28 October 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.
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Robert L. J. Ellery
Robert Lewis John Ellery CMG (14 July 1827 – 14 January 1908) was an English-Australian astronomer and public servant; Victorian government astronomer for 42 years.
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Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by 'gentleman astronomers' rather than professionals).
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Samuel Arthur Saunder
Samuel Arthur Saunder (1852 – December 8, 1912) was a British mathematician and selenographer who taught at Wellington College, Berkshire.
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Sunspot
Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas.
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T. E. R. Phillips
Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips (28 March 1868 – 13 May 1942), known as T. E. R. Phillips, was an English astronomer.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The English Mechanic and World of Science
The English Mechanic and World of Science was a popular-science magazine, published weekly from 1865 to 1926, generally consisting of 24 pages.
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Thomas Logie MacDonald
Thomas Logie MacDonald FRSE FRAS (1901–1973) was a Scottish astronomer and politician, and eponym of lunar crater McDonald.
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Tom Boles
Thomas Boles (born 1944 in Lennoxtown in Scotland) is a Scottish amateur astronomer, discoverer of astronomical objects, author, broadcaster and former communications and computer engineer, who observes from his private "Coddenham Observatory" in Coddenham, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
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Variable star
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) fluctuates.
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Walter Frederick Gale
Walter Frederick Gale (27 November 1865 – 1 June 1945) was an Australian banker.
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Walter Goodacre
Walter Goodacre (1856 – 1 May 1938) was a British businessman and amateur astronomer.
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William Charles Kernot
William Charles Kernot (16 June 1845 – 14 March 1909), was an Australian engineer, first professor of engineering at the University of Melbourne and president of the Royal Society of Victoria.
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William Henry Stanley Monck
William Henry Stanley Monck (April 21, 1839–June 24, 1915) was an Irish astronomer and philosopher.
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William Herbert Steavenson
William Herbert Steavenson FRAS (26 April 1894 – 23 September 1975) was an English amateur astronomer.
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William Maw
William Henry Maw (6 December 1838 – 19 March 1924) was a British civil engineer and astronomer.
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William Michael Herbert Greaves
Prof William Michael Herbert Greaves FRS FREng FRSE (10 September 1897 – 24 December 1955) was a British astronomer.
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William Peck (astronomer)
Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (3 January 1862, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire – 7 March 1925, Edinburgh) was a Scottish astronomer and scientific instrument maker.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Astronomical_Association
