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.
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)
Obituary
- MNRAS 29 (1869) 116 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0029//0000116.000.html)