1983/01/01 by Harley Weston Wood · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Australian Indigenous Culture and History #History and Developments in Astronomy #Observatory #Astronomer #Physics #Comet #Astronomy
paper · doi:10.1017/s1323358000017094
openalex publication_date 1983/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
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.