A look through a fixed equatorial, such as every large observatory is furnished with is a glorious view.

I shall never forget the sight that I got when at Dunecht Observatory, to which I was invited through the kindness of Dr.Copeland, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres' principal astronomer.
"You ask me what I have done in astronomical research?
I am sorry to say I have been able to do little except to gratify my own curiosity; and even then, as I say, I have been much tantalised.

I have watched the spots on the sun from day to day through obscured glasses, since the year 1878, and made many drawings of them.

Mr.Rand Capron, the astronomer, of Guildown, Guildford, desired to see these drawings, and after expressing his satisfaction with them, he sent them to Mr.
Christie, Astronomer Royal, Greenwich.

Although photographs of the solar surface were preferred, Mr.Capron thought that my sketches might supply gaps in the partially cloudy days, as well as details which might not appear on the photographic plates.