Markree Observatory was an astronomical observatory in County Sligo, Ireland.[1][2][3] The asteroid 9 Metis was discovered from this observatory in 1848 by Cooper's assistant Andrew Graham using a comet seeker telescope.[4][2] The observatory was also home to the largest refractor of the early 1830s, which had a 13.3-inch (340 mm) aperture Cauchoix of Paris lens; the largest in the world at that time. The observatory also housed a number of instruments and was operated to varying degrees throughout the 19th century.
The observatory is noted for its discovery of the asteroid 9 Metis in 1848 as well as a 60,000 item star catalogue of the 1850s.[5] In the later 1800s it was operated again after a brief hiatus, and gained note for its meteorological observations and research on double stars.[5]
- ^ Doberck, William (1884). "Markree Observatory". The Observatory. 7 (90): 283–288. Bibcode:1884Obs.....7..283D.
- ^ a b Doberck, William (1884). "Markree Observatory". The Observatory. 7 (91): 329–332. Bibcode:1884Obs.....7..329D.
- ^ Hoskin, Michael (1982). "Archives of Dunsink and Markree Observatories". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 13 (2): 146–152. Bibcode:1982JHA....13..146H. doi:10.1177/002182868201300219. S2CID 118143723.
- ^ Graham, A. (1848). "New Planet". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 8 (6). Royal Astronomical Society: 148. Bibcode:1848MNRAS...8..146G. doi:10.1093/mnras/8.6.148. (Signed 29 April 1848; the discovery was first announced on 27 April)
- ^ a b MacKeown, P. Kevin (1 January 2011). Early China Coast Meteorology: The Role of Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888028856.