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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2750. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Amateur Astronomy, Education And Public Impact

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Amateur astronomy has a long and distinguished history. For example, William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus and perhaps the greatest of all observers, began his career as an amateur; in 1845 the third Earl of Rosse built what was then much the most powerful telescope in the world—the Birr Castle 72 in reflector—and used it to discover the spiral forms of the objects we now know to be g...

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