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Old 19-12-2008, 07:54 AM
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Some history

Some other images of interest:

Lacaille was the first to catalog southern DSO from Cape Town in 1751-52.
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlop1826/Lacaille#

Dunlop and Rumker worked for Governor Brisbane at Parramatta in the 1820s.
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlop1826/DunlopRumker#

Brisbane built three observatories
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlo...Observatories#

These globular clusters and galaxies were found or seen by Dunlop in 1826.
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlo...bularClusters#
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlo...unlopGalaxies#

John Herschel observed at the Cape from 1834 to 1838.
http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlo...erAndHerschel#

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