John Tebbutt by Wayne Orchiston

Author:Wayne Orchiston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

A similar fear is contained in T.H.F. Griffin’s letter of 24 May, the first one Tebbutt received applauding his discovery: that the comet hopefully had not been located earlier by astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope or at some other southern observatory with professional staff and large telescopes (Griffin 1881a). There was something wonderfully romantic about a naked-eye comet to the people of colonial Sydney town, even more so if New South Wales and its renowned ‘astronomer’ could again lay valid claim to a new one!

Some were so carried away by the emotion of the moment that they simply ignored the issue of prior discovery altogether. The following delightful letter takes this line:And now my dear Sir let me congratulate you … You from your watch tower the sentinel of our southern heavens the first to challenge the celestial stranger, having no guard to him out equal to the occasion will have to grapple with the monster & record him his place and path . (Butterfield 1881)

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