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Today is the bicentenary of the birth of Sir William Huggins who my Observatory is named after.
With Dr Barbara Becker in 2011 at the Royal Astronomical Society.
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As Jack, I’m sure, will confirm, Dr Becker wrote an outstanding biography of William and Margaret Huggins, “Unravelling Starlight” (Cambridge 2011.
Well worth a read.There were two volumes of the Collected Works of Huggins published, and I was lucky to pick up the second in a Norfolk bookshop. Here is the frontispiece and a plate of his Jupiter drawings, for Huggins was also interested in planetary spectra. The book is one of the heaviest in my collection.
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