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Billingborough Observatory

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A Lincolnshire observatory combining astrophotography, automated meteor detection, live sky cameras, and local astronomical history.

Why it surfaced

This private observatory watches the sky around the clock and sends meteor observations to the Global Meteor Network. It also investigates the story of Edward Iszatt Essam, a nineteenth-century Billingborough astronomer whose observatory appears to have vanished around 1907.

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