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building in central Liverpool. However from around 1899 the society ceased activities, only for it to be revived in July 1901. Four Liverpool Astronomical Society Members joined the
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The laws of the Society provided for a ‘Special Observer’. The Observer was to have control of the Society’s Observatory to
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telescope and a 2” (50mm) transit telescope by Thomas Rylands. An observatory was built for it on the roof of the
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outside Liverpool. It was formerly known as Pex Hill Observatory and Visitors' Centre.
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The Society’s current observatory, known as the Leighton Observatory, is at Pex Hill,
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in 1888. However the title was rescinded when he resigned from the LAS in 1890.
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Laws of the Liverpool Astronomical Society. Revised 23rd October, 1886
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British Astronomical Association; Levander, Frederick William (1906).
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2 Assist Members requiring practical help in observational Astronomy.
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T H E C Espin was appointed as special observer while living at
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3 Undertake systematic observations on behalf of the Society.
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In 1893 the Society was gifted a 5" (125mm) aperture
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Society
celestial objects
Liverpool
England
English
Liverpool Astronomical Society
Liverpool
England
Cooke
equatorial
William Brown
British Astronomical Association
30 August 1905
Cronton
Merseyside
Thomas Henry Espinall Compton Espin
Isaac Roberts
William Frederick Denning
Thomas Gwyn Elger
Stephen Joseph Perry
West Kirby
Wolsingham
Tow Law
List of astronomical societies
"Thomas Glazebrook Rylands and Astronomy"
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