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William Huggins (1910) William Huggins was born at Cornhill, Middlesex, in 1824. In 1875, he married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of John Murray of Dublin, who also had an interest in astronomy and scientific research. [2] She encouraged her husband's photography and helped to put their research on a systematic footing. [citation needed]
1863 – William Allen Miller and Sir William Huggins use the photographic wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic spectrogram of a star, Sirius and Capella. [ 17 ] 1872 – Henry Draper photographs a spectrum of Vega that shows absorption lines .
San Diego, California, US Mount Lemmon Observatory: Tucson, Arizona, US Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory: Tasmania, Australia Mount Stromlo Observatory: 1911 Canberra, Australia Mount Suhora Observatory: 1987 Gorce Mountains, Poland Mount Wilson Observatory: 1904 Mount Wilson, Los Angeles County, California, US Mountain Skies Observatory: 1997
Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. [1] The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick of $700,000, equivalent to $23,737,778 in 2023.
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California.The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet (1,300 m), overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top [4] observatory. [5]
This memorial consists of a pair of medallions which are inscribed "William Huggins, astronomer 1824–1910" and the other "Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 1848–1915, his wife and fellow worker". There was a plaque established in 1997 that marks the house she grew up in on 23 Longford Terrace, Monkstown Dublin.
The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was noted for his careful observations of the night sky from his observatory on the island of Hven. In 1572 he noted the appearance of a new star, also in the constellation Cassiopeia. Later called SN 1572, this supernova was associated with a remnant during the 1960s. [20]
1972, Spring - Albert and Ann Merville sent to California to look for a site for the observatory. [3] 1973 MIRA members viewed Comet Kohoutek from Carmel. [4] 1974 MIRA receives $75,000 grant from the Research Corporation to build telescope around 36-inch mirror. [3] 1974 Forest service grants use permit for observatory. [3]