2012/05/04 by Jeremy Shears, Shears, Jeremy
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.0895
Accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 28 pages, 17 figures
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T. H. Astbury (1858-1922) was for many years the much-respected headmaster of a boys' junior school in the English market town of Wallingford. By night he was a dedicated amateur astronomer who enjoyed observing meteors, variable stars and many other objects. He began to search few new variable stars, his first discovery being the bright Cepheid variable, RT Aurigae. This, along with his discovery of 4 other variable stars, brought him to attention of some of the most famous professional astronomers of the age, including Herbert Hall Turner, Frank Dyson and Arthur Eddington.