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The Committee — By pcburns on December 1, 2009 at 10:33 pm

Our  ’rogues gallery’ showing Members of the Farnham Astronomical Society  Committee is presented below – we have included mugshots so that you can identify them at meetings . 

Details on joining the Farnham Astronomical Society can be found here.

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Chairman John Price	Secretary Danny Thomas	Treasurer John Rees
Membership Secretary Peter West	Programme Secretary Kevin Pretorius	Webmaster Peter Campbell-Burns
Observing Co-ordinator Steve Woodbridge	Librarian Eric Grieve	Refreshments Joy Shenton

 

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2 Comments

• John C McConnell FRAS says:

  July 14, 2010 at 4:37 pm

  Hi there, delighted to see the article on KEE on your site and also my article on Wilson and Daramona (even though without permission!) As an historian of astronomy I would very much like to have better images of the Aldershot Observatory and in particular the restored Grubb telescope. David restored all the instruments at Armagh and did a great job, I’m sure this is also true of Aldershot. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to contact me privately regarding this matter. Thanks in advance.
  John.
• pcburns says:

  July 14, 2010 at 5:38 pm

  I had tried my best to present something based on info from a few sources and to not plagurise (though it is sometimes difficult to write something that appears to be original when you distil things down to so few sentences); I did make a point of acknowledging my sources including your excellent article on the website as an information source in the hope that interested parties might follow it. I hope no offence was taken and will make changes to the article if you wish.

  I would be delighted to obtain some better photos of the Aldershot observatory for you. I have a few already which are taken with a small digital camera.

  It gave me a thrill to find that David remained as a link to the origins of these wonderful telescopes. Unfortunately the Aldershot Observatory runs the risk of becoming an athetic feature on a roundabout in a proposed development of the surrounding barracks.

  I have tried to research the KEE connection – why did the Army end up with a Grubb telescope? With a mind in overdrive you could perhaps understand KEE being a catalyst – assuming he was in and around Aldershot at the time. I have tracked down the Aldershot News article for the opening ceremony in 1906 – more senior officers are named but not KEE. If he was there he was possibly not of sufficient rank to get a mention! But what an incredible career.

  I have sent an email directly with my contact details.

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