Abstract
Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane, the sixth governor of New South Wales built Australia's first private observatory in 1822. He did this to carry out astronomical observations that would not only be of scientific value but also be beneficial to mankind. This paper discusses some scientific aspects of Parramatta Observatory and the problems that the observatory encountered in the observations of the night sky far from the metropolitan centres of astronomical influence in Europe. The paper also proposes that Parramatta Observatory should be placed on the UNESCO/IAU world heritage list of astronomical observatories.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 111-127 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales |
| Volume | 145 |
| Issue number | 445 & 446 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Australia
- Brisbane, Thomas Sir, 1773-1860
- Parramatta Observatory
- observatories
