Annual Report for 2000 - Visitors to the Observatory

Forty people attended the Scottish Astronomers Group meeting on Saturday 20th May. The meeting, hosted by the ASE, took place in the City Observatory. Talks were given by two members of the society. Graham Rule spoke about the history of the observatory and Neil Grubb spoke about CCD astronomy.

Shetland AS collected the 12 inch and 18 inch Dall-Kirkham telescopes from Calton Hill and took them back to Fetlar in Shetland where they will be refurbished and rehoused in a custom made dome.

Dr Ian Bartky, author of "Selling the True Time - nineteenth-century timekeeping in America" visited the observatory to see some of the history of timekeeping in Edinburgh.