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Subscriber only COVID-19 restrictions and confusion combined with a wild weather forecast may have made for a bumpy start to the easter break but it seems there s clear skies ahead. Accommodation providers like Ann Glasson at Riviera Resort report they are running near 100 per cent capacity for the entire school holidays. Among the guests are Andrew and Kim Trigell, who together with their daughters Annabelle and Delilah who posed for a picture for the Chronicle poolside. Rivieria Resort managers Ann and Ian Glasson. Photo: Stuart Fast Mrs Glasson said while travellers did get a bit anxious about travelling due to the recent COVID outbreak in Brisbane she said it had little impact on bookings at the resort.
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South African astronomy has a long, rich history of discovery
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South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town is the oldest permanent observatory in the southern hemisphere: It turned 200 in 2020.
This observatory is a fundamental part of South Africa’s long history of astronomical research, which began when French academic Nicolas-Louis de La Caille visited Cape Town from 1751 to 1753. He undertook a careful examination of every square degree of the southern sky. This resulted in the first comprehensive sky survey ever made, in either hemisphere.
The Royal Observatory, Cape Town of Good Hope (today the South African Astronomical Observatory) was established in 1820. It became – and remained for 150 years – the most important source of star positions in the southern hemisphere sky. This was in terms of both accuracy and the number of measurements made. In the years that followed its foundation, the observatory’s laborious work led to important scientific di