
%0 Journal Article
%A Orchiston, W 
%T Comets and Communication: Amateur-Professional Tension
%J Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
%D 1999/07/01
%V 16
%N 2
%P 212-221
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AS99212
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AS99212 
%X Australasian amateur astronomers, Grigg and Ross, discovered four different comets between 1902 and 1907. Controversy surrounding these discoveries led to a deterioration in relations between Australia's leading amateur astronomers and Baracchi at Melbourne Observatory, and to the eventual transfer of the 'Australian Central Bureau' to Sydney Observatory. 
