About William Sadler Franks
Lived 1851 – 1935 (aged 84). William Sadler Franks was an astronomer.
William Sadler Franks (26 April 1851 in Newark, Nottinghamshire – 19 June 1935 in East Grinstead ) was a British astronomer.
Franks was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society on 9 January 1880. From 1890 to 1894 he directed the British Astronomical Association’s Star Colour Section.
He published a catalogue of the colours of 3890 stars.
Franks was employed between 1892 and 1904 by the wealthy amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts as an assistant to support the photographic observations of star clusters and nebulae at Roberts's private observatory at Crowborough in Sussex.
One of the other observers who used the Brockhurst Observatory with Franks was a teenage Patrick Moore (fourteen years old at Franks's death in a road accident).
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British astronomer (1851-1935)
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William Sadler Franks was born on 26 April 1851 in Newark-on-Trent.
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William Sadler Franks died on 19 June 1935.
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William Sadler Franks was an astronomer.
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