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During 1999, grant applications were progressed by Mark Bailey and John Butler (with the assistance of other staff, especially Lawrence Young and Martin Murphy) to obtain external funding to widen public access to the Observatory's long series of meteorological records which commenced on a regular basis in 1795 and continue to the present day. The applications were to enable outside users to obtain access to scanned images of all records, and to provide access to calibrated daily data on air temperature, humidity, rainfall, pressure and sunshine. By the end of the financial year two such applications were successful, providing funds in future years to complete a substantial meteorological project.
The successful grants were a Heritage Lottery Fund application `Developing Access to Northern Ireland's Meteorological Record', to place on the internet the Observatory's 7500 pages of hand-written meteorological records, and an Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust grant `Compilation of the Irish Climate Archive', to enable the written record to be verified and calibrated and to facilitate research into general aspects of global warming contained within the Armagh climate archive.
As the first stage of a larger conservation and archive project, an application has also been prepared to the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore three historic telescopes and their associated domes. One of the telescopes, the 15-inch reflector (1834) by Grubb, is of exceptional historical interest as the first large reflector to be mounted on an equatorial mounting with a clock drive. As such it is the forerunner of many of the large Grubb reflectors which followed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The telescope will be rebuilt from the surviving parts and placed in its original location in the 1827 dome. The 18-inch Calver/Schmidt telescope will also be restored, probably to its original Calver Newtonian design. This project will be progressed by John Butler with the assistance of the architect Stephen Leighton, and David Sinden of the Sinden Optical Company.