220 years ago James Dunlop was born at Dalry, Scotland on 31 Oct 1793.
In just 7 months in 1826 he catalogued 629 star clusters and nebulae. Half of these turned out to be faint (m11) double stars.
He also made a separate catalogue of 253 double stars the same year with his homemade 9" speculum reflector from his Parramatta back yard.
Dunlop died aged 54 on 22 Sep 1848 and was buried at Kincumber, NSW.
Here are maps of:
Dalry, Scotland
http://goo.gl/maps/GGr9h
Dunlop's Parramatta house was here
http://goo.gl/maps/7IY9U
The Kincumber cemetery
http://goo.gl/maps/2VlY4
And 164 wikisky images of Dunlop's deep-sky objects:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1100488...2146/Dunlop28#
Most of these images are 28' by 28'.