New Zealand's First Scientific Observatories: The Tent Observatories Used on Cook's Second and Third Voyages to the Pacific (2023)
Orchiston, Wayne (Author)
Glen Rowe (Author)
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Volume: 24
Issue: 4
Pages: 1033-1056
Following the success of James Cook's First Voyage to the South Seas, two further expeditions to the Pacific were planned. Astronomers went on both voyages and were supplied with telescopes, quadrants, astronomical clocks, chronometers and other instruments, as well as prefabricated tent observatories. In this paper we describe these portable observatories and then relate the ways in which they were used by William Bayly and William Wales in 1773 and 1774 during the various Second Voyage stop-overs in New Zealand, and by Bayly, Cook and James King during the Third Voyage New Zealand stop-over in 1777.
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