... Archbishop Richard Robinson (1709-1794), leader of the Church of Ireland, created the Georgian town of Armagh, including the Observatory. ... He was influenced to found an observatory by the Reverend J.A. Hamilton of Cookstown, County Tyrone, who was a noted amateur astronomer, and was to become its first director. ... J.A. Hamilton , the first director, embarked on a comprehensive program of accurately measuring the positions of the stars, but was hindered by the death of Archbishop Robinson in...
... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Until V774104 was discovered Eris (illustrated in this artist?s impression) was the most distant observed member of the Solar System. ... V774104 hardly rolls off the tongue, but this is just a provisional designation and this little world will probably receive a name eventually. ... This bleak little world was found by astronomers led by Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo using the 8m Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the Dark Energy Survey Camera in Chile. ...