[cpastro] Next meting Wednesday April 8th 2026: "The biggest telescope in the world" Bill Barton FRAS

Hi All

This week welcome back to the club Mr Bill Barton FRAS.

Bill describes the "Biggest telescope in the World" in the period 1845-1917. It covers the telescope's planning, construction, use and demise. Perhaps surprisingly, it was not at a major observatory or on the top of a high faraway mountain, but in an aristocrat's garden in central Ireland.

Bill took early retirement from his position as a signal engineer with Network rail in 2014, and since than has devoted himself to researching astronomical history. He is currently:- Deputy Director of the Historical Section of the British Astronomical Association, The Society for the History of Astronomy’s County Coordinator for Suffolk, and a Trustee of the Orwell Astronomical Society (Ipswich).

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