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Jodrell Bank and the British Astronomical Association: The Making of a Generation of Scientists
Jeremy Shears
The discovery of radar echoes from meteor trains at Jodrell Bank in 1945 marked the beginning of a new era in meteor astronomy and laid the foundations for the subsequent developme…
Could John Ellard Gore have pre-empted the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
Jeremy Shears
John Ellard Gore (1845-1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer, prolific science writer and civil engineer. He was an inaugural member of the British Astronomical Association when it…
The Birth of Radar Meteor Astronomy at Jodrell Bank: The Collaboration between Bernard Lovell and Manning Prentice
Jeremy Shears
The discovery of radar echoes from meteor trains at Jodrell Bank in December 1945 heralded the beginning of a new era in meteor astronomy. This paper examines the early collaborati…
David Elijah Packer: cluster variables, meteors and the solar corona
Jeremy Shears
David Elijah Packer (1862-1936), a librarian by profession, was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer who observed from London and Birmingham. He first came to the attention of the as…
The controversial pen of Edwin Holmes
Jeremy Shears
Edwin Alfred Holmes (1839 -1919) is best remembered for his discovery of a bright comet in 1892, now known as Comet 17P/Holmes. An amateur astronomer and authority on optics, he wa…
In the footsteps of Ebenezer Porter Mason and his nebulae
Jeremy Shears, Carl Knight, Martin Lewis +3
In 1839 Ebenezer Porter Mason (1819-1840) produced detailed drawings of the Omega Nebula (M17), the Trifid Nebula (M20) and the eastern part of the Veil Nebula (NGC 6992 and 6995).…