Mystery London Astronomy Tour (Hayes) Group

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

Photo by Jim Worthington