As a maritime city with a long history, Bristol has an equally long connection with navigation, originally by the stars. In the current article we will, however, only consider contributions to what we can call 'modern' astronomical science. To set a specific start date we choose 1820, the date of formation of the Royal Astronomical Society (originally as the Astronomical Society of London)~1. The Society's inception also came just a few months after the birth of the future Queen Victoria, long-time patroness of the RAS~2.
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