Cyril V. Jackson

See also: Jackson

Cyril V. Jackson (December 5th 1903 - February 1988) was a South-African Astronome .

He had been born in the Yorkshire in England, but his/her father emigrated in South Africa in 1911.

He worked with l' observatory of the Union to Johannesburg of 1928 with 1947 (known in the past under the name observatory of Transvaal then renamed observatory of the Republic ). he was then director of l' observatory Yale' S Columbia Southern in Johannesburg. Because of the luminous Pollution, this observatory was closed in 1951 and it supervised the transfer of its instruments towards the Observatoire of the Mount Stromlo in Australia (the Yale-Columbia telescope was destroyed by the fire of January 18th, 2003 which devastated the Stromlo Mount).

He worked with the Stromlo Mount of 1957 with 1963. In 1963, Yale reopened its observatory Columbia Southern in El Leoncito in Argentine and he was the director until his retirement in 1966.

He discovered several Comet S, of which periodic comets 47P/Ashbrook-Jackson and 58P/Jackson-Neujmin.

He also discovered many Astéroïde S in the first part of his career at the observatory of the Union.

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