by neufer » Sat Oct 05, 2019 3:21 pm
Ann wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:55 pm
Dinks and donks and drinks and dronks indeed!!
Right now I don't think I need any more education in this particular field!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lassell wrote:
<<William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was born in Bolton, Lancashire. After the death of his father, he was apprenticed from 1814 to 1821 to a merchant in Liverpool. He then made his fortune as a beer brewer, which enabled him to indulge his interest in astronomy. He built an observatory at his house "Starfield" in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool. There he had a 24-inch reflector telescope, for which he pioneered the use of an equatorial mount for easy tracking of objects as the Earth rotates. He ground and polished the mirror himself, using equipment he constructed. The observatory was later (1854) moved further out of Liverpool, to Bradstone.
In 1846
Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. In 1848 he independently co-discovered Hyperion, a moon of Saturn. In 1851 he discovered Ariel and Umbriel, two moons of Uranus.
In 1855, he built a 48-inch telescope, which he installed in Malta because of the observing conditions that were better than in often-overcast England. On his return to the UK after several years in Malta he moved to Maidenhead and operated his 24-inch telescope in an observatory there.
Upon his death in Maidenhead in 1880, Lassell left a fortune of £80,000 (roughly equivalent to £7,800,000 in 2018). His telescope was presented to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
Lassell was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) from 1839, won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1849, and served as its president for two years starting in 1870. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1849 and won their Royal Medal in 1858. The
crater Lassell on the Moon, a
crater on Mars, the asteroid 2636 Lassell and a ring of Neptune are named in his honour. At the University of Liverpool the William Lassell prize is awarded to the student with the highest grades graduating the B.Sc. program in Physics with Astronomy each year.>>
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Dinks and donks and drinks and dronks indeed!! :shock:
Right now I don't think I need any more education in this particular field![/quote][quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lassell]
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<<William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was born in Bolton, Lancashire. After the death of his father, he was apprenticed from 1814 to 1821 to a merchant in Liverpool. He then made his fortune as a beer brewer, which enabled him to indulge his interest in astronomy. He built an observatory at his house "Starfield" in West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool. There he had a 24-inch reflector telescope, for which he pioneered the use of an equatorial mount for easy tracking of objects as the Earth rotates. He ground and polished the mirror himself, using equipment he constructed. The observatory was later (1854) moved further out of Liverpool, to Bradstone.
In 1846 [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070304.html]Lassell discovered Triton[/url], the largest moon of Neptune, just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. In 1848 he independently co-discovered Hyperion, a moon of Saturn. In 1851 he discovered Ariel and Umbriel, two moons of Uranus.
In 1855, he built a 48-inch telescope, which he installed in Malta because of the observing conditions that were better than in often-overcast England. On his return to the UK after several years in Malta he moved to Maidenhead and operated his 24-inch telescope in an observatory there.
Upon his death in Maidenhead in 1880, Lassell left a fortune of £80,000 (roughly equivalent to £7,800,000 in 2018). His telescope was presented to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
Lassell was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) from 1839, won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1849, and served as its president for two years starting in 1870. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1849 and won their Royal Medal in 1858. The [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassell_(lunar_crater)]crater Lassell[/url] on the Moon, a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassell_(Martian_crater)]crater on Mars[/url], the asteroid 2636 Lassell and a ring of Neptune are named in his honour. At the University of Liverpool the William Lassell prize is awarded to the student with the highest grades graduating the B.Sc. program in Physics with Astronomy each year.>>[/quote]