History - Links to papers, books and presentations

Photograph: Members of the BAA NSW observing the 1922 total solar eclipse. Walter Gale is second from the left. Courtesy Powerhouse collection P3549-187. Colourised courtesy N. Lomb.

Sydney City Skywatchers was previously called the New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association. Our members and organisation has a rich history. Research into that history has produced many papers, books and presentations and some of these are listed and linked here. We are always looking for new information and perspectives on the past:

Lomb, N., Orchiston, W., Kinder, A., and Stevenson, T., (2024) “Early members of the New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 134, no. 3, p. 187.

Lomb, N., Stevenson, T. (2023) Eclipse Chasers, 216 pp., illus., Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing (2023); ISBN: 978 1 486317073. https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/8098/

Lomb, N., (2023) “The New South Wales Branch of the BAA & the Sydney University Observatory”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 133, no. 4, p. 241, https://britastro.org/journal_contents_ite/the-new-south-wales-branch-of-the-baa-the-sydney-university-observatory.

Lomb, N., (2023) “Closing Encounters: The Efforts of the NSW Branch of the British Astronomical Association to Save Sydney Observatory”, in Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage. A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on his 80th Birthday, S. Gullberg and P. Robertson, Eds. pp. 557–582. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-29493-8_28.Orchiston, W., (2017) John Tebbutt: Rebuilding and Strengthening the Foundations of Australian Astronomy. 2017. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-29493-8_28.

Orchiston, D. W. (2024). It All Began with Tebbutt! The Peripatetic Path from New Zealand to New Orleans. Bulletin of the AAS, 56(2). https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.5960a460