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21 de may. de 2024 · Civic society member Chris Stone said it was unknown why Stephen Flamsteed chose Queen Street for the site of the house for him and his son, John, in the late 1660s.
18 de may. de 2024 · Tickets are now available for 'John Flamsteed: Derby's gift to Astronomy, and founder of the Greenwich Observatory' with Dr Allan at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby on Sat 18 May 2024 at 2:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
25 de may. de 2024 · The observatory is named in honour of England's first Astronomer Royal, the Reverend John Flamsteed (1646-1719), who was born in Derbyshire and attended Derby School. Regular monthly observing sessions are held (weather permitting) at the facility and new people are always welcome.
Hace 5 días · Flamsteed charted stars from Greenwich Observatory until his death in 1719. The catalog of nearly 3,000 stars he observed was published posthumously, first as the three-volume Historia Coelestis Britannica , and then the Atlas Coelestis, the largest and most accurate star atlas at the time.
31 de may. de 2024 · The star catalogue of English astronomer John Flamsteed, published in 1712, gave Epsilon Eridani the Flamsteed designation of 18 Eridani, because it was the eighteenth catalogued star in the constellation of Eridanus by order of increasing right ascension.
24 de may. de 2024 · The house was previously occupied by John Flamsteed who, the civic society said, created Greenwich Mean Time inside the building. It was also the headquarters of Smith Clocks until 1998.
30 de may. de 2024 · Newton's reawakening interest in astronomical matters received further stimulus by the appearance of a comet in the winter of 1680–1681, on which he corresponded with John Flamsteed. After the exchanges with Hooke, Newton worked out a proof that the elliptical form of planetary orbits would result from a centripetal force inversely proportional to the square of the radius vector.
