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Sydney Observatory 1858-1983
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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Astonomy in Sydney predates Sydney Observatory by some 70 years. Lt William Dawes arrived with the First Fleet and set up an observatory at a place now called Dawes Point at the foot of the present Observatory Hill. His instructions were to observe a comet predicted by the famous astronomer, Edmund Halley, to return about 1790.
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