William Rutter Dawes
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William Rutter Dawes (March 19 1799 – February 15 1868) was a British astronomer.
He was a clergyman who made extensive measurements of double stars as well as observations of planets. He was a friend of William Lassell. He was nicknamed "eagle eye".
He made extensive drawings of Mars during its 1864 opposition. In 1867, Richard Anthony Proctor made a map of Mars based on these drawings.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1855.
Craters on Mars and on the Moon are named after him.
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External links
- Biography, Obs 36 (1913) 419 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0036//0000419.000.html)
- Awarding of RAS gold medal, MNRAS 15 (1855) 148 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0015//0000148.000.html)
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Obituary
- MNRAS 29 (1869) 116 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0029//0000116.000.html)
