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When I arrived at Chigwell School in the autumn of 1971, there was a thriving astronomy club in existence, but no observatory. There was a telescope, but this was rarely used as it was a curious beast. It had been constructed in the late nineteenth century by a master at the school and seemed to have been copied from one of the telescopes of William Herschel. It had an octagonal tube made of mahogany and was mounted on a wooden structure which was supported by four castors. The mirror was home-made of speculum metal!
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Sizer, A.J. (1996). Chigwell School Observatory in Chigwell, England. In: Moore, P. (eds) Small Astronomical Observatories. Practical Astronomy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0999-0_13
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