The whole group (including guests from flamsteed AS) listening to Greg talk about John Hussey who used to live at what is now the Library and who had a large observatory in the garden.
Hussey was an amateur astronomer and established
a signifcant, personal observatory at Hayes, with a
6.5-inch-diameter (170 mm) refracting telescope by
Joseph von Fraunhofer, a Newtonian telescope of 7
ft focal length by William Herschel, and a 9.3-inch
Gregorian-Newtonian.
His observations On Venus rotation and Sunspots presented to the Royal Astronomical Society
in 1847. Hussey also compiled star maps, one of which earned him a prize from the Berlin Academy in 1831