Isaac Roberts

Isaac Roberts
Roberts's tomb in Flaybrick Memorial Gardens
Starfield: Isaac Roberts's observatory and home in Crowborough, Sussex
Isaac Roberts' magnum opus is generally considered to be his picture of the Great Nebula in Andromeda

Welsh engineer and businessman best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae.

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Andromeda Galaxy

Barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 220,000 ly approximately 2.5 e6ly from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way.

The Andromeda Galaxy with satellite galaxies M32 (center left above the galactic nucleus) and M110 (center left below the galaxy)
Great Andromeda "Nebula" (M110 to upper left), as photographed by Isaac Roberts, 1899.
Location of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in the Andromeda constellation.
Andromeda Galaxy near upper-left of the Very Large Telescope. The Triangulum Galaxy is visible on the top.
The Andromeda Galaxy as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
The Andromeda Galaxy pictured in ultraviolet by GALEX (2003).
Illustration showing both the size of each galaxy and the distance between the two galaxies, to scale.
Giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy.
The Andromeda Galaxy (M110 below) seen in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of NASA's four Great Space Observatories.
Image of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by Spitzer in infrared, 24 micrometres (Credit:NASA/JPL–Caltech/Karl D. Gordon, University of Arizona).
A Galaxy Evolution Explorer image of the Andromeda Galaxy. The bands of blue-white making up the galaxy's striking rings are neighborhoods that harbor hot, young, massive stars. Dark blue-grey lanes of cooler dust show up starkly against these bright rings, tracing the regions where star formation is currently taking place in dense cloudy cocoons. When observed in visible light, the Andromeda Galaxy's rings look more like spiral arms. The ultraviolet view shows that these arms more closely resemble the ring-like structure previously observed in infrared wavelengths with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers using the latter interpreted these rings as evidence that the galaxy was involved in a direct collision with its neighbor, M32, more than 200 million years ago.
Hubble image of the Andromeda Galaxy core showing possible double structure. NASA/ESA photo.
Artist's concept of the Andromeda Galaxy's core, showing a view across a disk of young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole. NASA/ESA photo.
Chandra X-ray telescope image of the center of the Andromeda Galaxy. A number of X-ray sources, likely X-ray binary stars, within the galaxy's central region appear as yellowish dots. The blue source at the center is at the position of the supermassive black hole.
The Andromeda Galaxy in high-energy X-ray and ultraviolet light (released 5 January 2016).
Star clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy.
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In 1888, Isaac Roberts took one of the first photographs of Andromeda, which was still commonly thought to be a nebula within our galaxy.

Rock Ferry

Area of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, England.

HMS Conway at Rock Ferry
SS Great Eastern beached to be broken up.

The property was subsequently owned by astronomer Isaac Roberts, who installed a seven-inch refracter in a revolving dome on the top floor.

Amateur astronomy

Hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes.

Amateur astronomers watch the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower.
Amateur astronomer recording observations of the sun.
Places like Paranal Observatory offer crystal clear skies for observing astronomical objects with or without instruments.
An image of the Cat's Paw Nebula created combining the work of professional and amateur astronomers. The image is the combination of the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0.4-meter amateur telescope.
One of the rolls of amateur astronomy groups is outreach programs bringing astronomy to the general public
Sir Patrick Moore was one of the world's leading popularisers of astronomy.

Isaac Roberts (1829–1904), early experimenter in astronomical photography.

Dorothea Klumpke

American astronomer.

She met up with Dr. Isaac Roberts, a 67-year-old Welsh widower and entrepreneur turned astronomer, who had become a pioneer in astrophotography.

Liverpool Astronomical Society

Founded in 1881 in Liverpool, England, as a society to promote and coordinate amateur astronomy.

1885–1886, Isaac Roberts

Alexander William Roberts

Scottish-born, South African teacher and an amateur astronomer.

Alexander William Roberts (1938)

The crater Roberts on the Moon is co-named for him and Sir Isaac Roberts.

Klumpke-Roberts Award

Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts
Isaac Roberts

The Klumpke-Roberts Award, one of seven international and national awards for service to astronomy and astronomy education given by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, was established from a bequest by astronomer Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts to honor her husband Isaac Roberts and her parents.

Maghull

Town and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside .

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Maghull looking towards Leeds from Westway Bridge
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Maghull Square
Frozen food shop
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1904 in Wales

About the particular significance of the year 1904 to Wales and its people.

17 July - Isaac Roberts, astronomer, 75

1040 Klumpkea

Tirela asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 23 km in diameter.

Shape model of Klumpkea from its lightcurve

This minor planet was named after American astronomer Dorothea Klumpke (1861–1943), spouse of Welsh astronomer Isaac Roberts (1829–1904).