Captain William Noble (1828-1904), British amateur astronomer. After retiring from the Army Noble built his own observatory at Maresfield, Sussex, fro

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Captain William Noble (1828-1904), British amateur astronomer. After retiring from the Army Noble built his own observatory at Maresfield, Sussex, from where he studied sunspots and occultations of planets.

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