Walter Goodacre

Walter Goodacre

(Lunar scientist)

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Walter Goodacre was a British businessman and amateur astronomer. The crater Goodacre is named in his honor.

Lunar Work

In his youth, Goodacre was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society, becoming a founding member of the British Astronomical Association in 1890. In 1897 he became the second Director of its Lunar Section, serving in that post until 1937. In 1910, he published a 77" diameter hand drawn map of the moon. In 1931, he published a larger book of maps of the moon's surface with descriptions of features.
 
 

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Birth

1856; Loughborough, England
 
 

Death

May 1, 1938, Bournemouth, England
 
 

Publications

• Goodacre, W. 1906. Lunar nomenclature, on the state of. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 66, pp. 92-96.
• Goodacre, Walter. 1910. A map of the moon in XXV sections, with index. London: Published by W. Goodacre. (the 1910 map sections are available in an on-line exhibit at University College London)
• Goodacre, Walter. 1925. Mysterious landscapes of the lunar world. Travel, volume XLV, number 6. Chicago: Travel Pub. Co.
• Goodacre, Walter. 1931. The moon, with a description of its surface formations, fully illustrated by the author's revised map of the moon. Bournemouth [Eng.]: The author.

Additional Information

• The Walter Goodacre Medal and Gift is given by the British Astronomical Association in his honor.
• While not pursuing his astronomical interests, Goodacre head the firm of William Goodacre & Sons, a London carpet manufacturing business founded by his father.
• See also Walter Goodacre's descriptions of telescopically observable lunar surface details in the Appendix on page 159 of T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 1: The Solar System.

LPOD

An Author Where He Belongs

Bibliography

• Obituary notice: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 99, p.310

A certain Mr. Goodacre in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
 

• Page 460: An Occultation Phenomenon (Edwin Holmes, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 1903).

Note: In this article, a certain Mr. Goodacre is mentioned because of an observation of a strange occultation phenomenon of Jupiter's satellite Io, March 22, 1895. I wonder if this Mr. Goodacre could have been Walter Goodacre...
- DannyCaes DannyCaes Aug 29, 2016

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