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The Observatory (journal)

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Discipline
  
Astronomy

Publication history
  
1877-present

ISSN
  
0029-7704

Language
  
English

Frequency
  
bimontly

Publisher
  
Editors of The Observatory (United Kingdom)

The Observatory is a publication, variously described as a journal, a magazine and a review, devoted to astronomy. It appeared regularly starting in 1877, and it is now published every two months.

Although it is not published by the Royal Astronomical Society, it publishes the reports of its meetings. Other features are the extensive book reviews and "Here and There", a collection of misprints and ridiculous statements of astronomical interest.

The founder and first editor (1877–82) was William Christie, then chief assistant at the Royal Observatory and later Astronomer Royal. Notable subsequent editors include:

  • Arthur Eddington (1913–19)
  • Harold Spencer Jones (1915–23)
  • Richard van der Riet Woolley (1933–39)
  • William McCrea (1935–37)
  • Margaret Burbidge (1948–51)
  • Antony Hewish (1957–61)
  • Donald Lynden-Bell (1967–69)
  • Carole Jordan (1968–73)
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1973–76)
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    The Observatory (journal) Wikipedia


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