The Royal Observatory at Edinburgh by Rick Lynch

The first Royal Observatory was founded on Carlton Hill in the city of Edinburgh in 1822 and remained there until 1896 when it moved to the Blackford Hill site. The original observatory, associated buildings and monuments still exit on Carlton hill today. Earlier this year I visited the site and will discuss the early history of the observatory and its buildings.
Rick has been a member of Skyscrapers since 1969 when he gave his first presentation at a monthly meeting. Over the years his astronomical interests have primarily focused on meteor observing, comets, variable stars, and deep sky observing. For the last several years Rick has been very focused on measuring double stars, and observing the many star clusters listed in the lesser known catalogues; Trumpler, Berkley, King, Dolidze, Basel, Czernik, Ruprecht, etc. He observes is from his two home observatories in Greenville, RI

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