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Lord Lindsay's heliometer. This instrument was used to observe the Sun and measure stellar parallaxes to determine the distances of stars. It was originally located in Dunecht Observatory, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This observatory was founded in 1871 by the Scottish astronomer James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), the 26th Earl of Crawford. Lindsay appointed David Gill (1843-1914) as the first director of the observatory, and Gill later purchased the heliometer from Lord Lindsay and took it to the Cape Observatory in South Africa in 1880. This instrument was also used in Mauritius to observe the transit of Venus in 1874. It was later returned to England and installed at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.
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15-inch telescope, Dunecht Observatory

This telescope is of the refractor design, and was made by the Grubb telescope company, founded in the 19th century. The Dunecht Observatory, in Aberdeenshire, was founded in 1871 by the Scottish astronomer James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), the 26th Earl of Crawford. Lord Lindsay appointed David Gill (1843-1914) as the first director of the observatory. The observatory's instruments were donated to the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh in 1888.

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Dun Echt Observatory flourished for almost twenty years but, in 1888, on learning that Scotland's modest Royal Observatory, Calton Hill, in the centre of Edinburgh was under threat of closure James Lindsay, now 26th Earl of Crawford, saved the day by magnanimously donating the entire contents of his observatory including its by now priceless library to the nation. The whole was housed in a new Royal Observatory building, completed in 1896, which remains the home of Edinburgh astronomy with Edinburgh University's IfA (Institute for Astronomy) and, the UKATC (United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre).
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Barmekin Of Echt, Observatory

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