Mars – Page 15 – British Astronomical Association

Mars Section Report No 1 – To 1996 November 1

General By November 1 a few dozen early observations commencing August 4 had reached the BAA. The disk diameter increased

This information, together with a complete guide to the telescopic literature for 1659–1993, is also included in the 1999 Memoir.

When the Directors of both the Mercury and Venus Section (J. Hedley Robinson) and the Mars Section retired in 1979,

Edward Howard Collinson had a long professional career as a Suffolk solicitor. His astronomical interests were the planets and variable

Percy Mayow Ryves was an amateur astronomer whose prime interests were the planet Mars and variable stars. For the close

Dr Reginald Lawson Waterfield worked as a haematologist for many years. He is best remembered for his astrometry and photography

Bertrand Meigh Peek is best remembered for his direction of the Jupiter Section and for his classic 1950s book, only

Harold Thomson was an accomplished planetary observer, who observed from Newcastle upon Tyne. Thomson was a co-discoverer of Nova Aquilae

Dr William Herbert Steavenson – or Steave, as he was known to his friends – was a talented and eagle-eyed

Born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Greek parents, Eugene Michael Antoniadi in his day was a legendary figure amongst the ranks