Then & Now: The Natal Observatory
Nov 21, 2020
2 minutes
THE Natal Observatory opened in 1882 in anticipation of the transit of Venus on December 4 that year. Its most important work was a study of the motion of the moon.
In 1882, David Gill, director of the Royal Observatory in Cape Town, asked the government of Natal to establish an astronomical observatory at Durban. In June that year he sent Robert Pett to Durban,
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